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Based upon recent evidence from abundance patterns of chemical elements in solar energetic particles (SEPs), and, ironically, the belated inclusion of H and He, we can distinguish four basic SEP populations: (1) SEP1 - pure "impulsive" SEPs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Donald V. Reames

It has been recently suggested that large solar energetic particle (SEP) events are often caused by twin CMEs. In the twin-CME scenario, the preceding CME is to provide both an enhanced turbulence level and enhanced seed population at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-21 Liu-Guan Ding , Gang Li , Gui-Ming Le , Bin Gu , Xin-Xin Cao

We reexamine the relationship between energy spectral indices and element abundance enhancements in solar energetic particle (SEP) events at energies of a few MeV/amu. We find a correlated behavior only in the largest gradual SEP4 events…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Donald V. Reames

In large SEP events, ions can be accelerated at CME-driven shocks to very high energies. Spectra of heavy ions in many large SEP events show features such as roll-overs or spectral breaks. In some events when the spectra are plotted in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Lulu Zhao , Gang Li , G. M. Mason , C. Cohen , R. A. Mewaldt , M. I. Desai , R. W. Ebert , M. A. Dayeh

We summarize observations of around a thousand solar energetic particle (SEP) events since 1967 that include ~25 MeV protons, made by various near-Earth spacecraft (IMPs 4, 5, 7, 8, ISEE 3, SOHO), that encompass Solar Cycle 20 to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-11 Ian G. Richardson , Tycho T. von Rosenvinge , Hilary V. Cane

From a turbulent history, the study of abundances of elements in solar energetic particles (SEPs) has grown into an extensive field that probes the solar corona and the physical processes of SEP acceleration and transport. Underlying SEPs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Donald V Reames

Large solar energetic particle (SEP) events are thought to originate from the shocks driven by fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and thus generally accompanied by type II radio bursts. However, a significant proportion of type II radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Xuchun Duan , Ting Li , Yingli Cui , Yijun Hou , Chuan Li , Nicolas Wijsen , Zelong Jiang , Yihua Yan , Suli Ma , Zheng Sun

The propagation of solar energetic particles (SEPs) in interplanetary space is modulated by solar wind turbulence, which significantly influences particle diffusion and energy evolution through scattering processes. Traditional analyses…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Yihang Cao , Jingnan Guo , Yuming Wang , Zhuxuan Zou , Yongjie Zhang , Cunhui Li

We study selected properties of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events as inferred from their associated radio emissions. We used a catalogue of 115 SEP events that consists of entries of proton intensity enhancements at one AU, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. Kouloumvakos , A. Nindos , E. Valtonen , C. E. Alissandrakis , O. Malandraki , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos , X. Moussas , A. Hillaris

The early 1970s saw a new and surprising feature in the composition of solar energetic particles (SEPs), resonant enhancements up to 10,000-fold in the ratio 3He/4He that could even make 3He dominant over H in rare events. It was soon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Donald V. Reames

Geomagnetic field variations during five major Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events of solar cycle 23 have been investigated in the present study. The SEP events of 01 oct 2001, 04 Nov 2001, 21 Apr 2002 and 14 May 2005 have been selected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Parvaiz A. Khan , Sharad C. Tripathi , O. A. Troshichev , Malik A. Waheed , Aslam A. M. , A. K. Gwal

We present evidence that $>25$ MeV solar proton events show a clustering in time at intervals of $\approx$ six months that persisted during the rising and peak phases of Solar Cycle 24. This phenomenon is most clearly demonstrated by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ian Richardson , Tycho von Rosenvinge , Hilary Cane

We study event-to-event variations in the abundance enhancements of the elements He through Pb for Fe-rich impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, and their relationship with properties of associated coronal mass ejections (CMEs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

We present a new catalogue of solar energetic particle events near the Earth, covering solar cycle 23 and the majority of solar cycle 24 (1996-2016), based on the 55-80 MeV proton intensity data gathered by the SOHO/ERNE experiment. In…

Gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events, usually attributed to shock waves driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs), show a wide variety of temporal behaviors. For example, TO, the >10 MeV proton onset time with respect to the launch…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kosuke Kihara , Ayumi Asai , Seiji Yashiro , Nariaki V. Nitta

We examine 3He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs) detected on 2023 October 24-25 by Solar Orbiter at 0.47 au. The measurements revealed that heavy-ion enhancements increase irregularly with mass, peaking at S. C, and especially N, Si,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 R. Bucik , G. M. Mason , S. M. Mulay , G. C. Ho , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , J. Rodriguez-Pacheco

The steep power-law dependence of element abundance enhancements on the mass-to-charge ratios [A/Q] of the ions in impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events causes these enhancements to reflect the temperature-dependent pattern of Q…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-05 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

We revisit the full variety of observed temporal and spatial distributions of energetic solar protons in "gradual" solar energetic-particle (SEP) events resulting from the spatial variations in the shock waves that accelerate them.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-16 Donald V. Reames

We explore the link between solar energetic particles (SEPs) observed at 1 AU and large-scale disturbances propagating in the solar corona, named after the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) as EIT waves, which trace the lateral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Miteva , K. -L. Klein , I. Kienreich , M. Temmer , A. Veronig , O. E. Malandraki

We present a statistical analysis of near-relativistic (NR) solar energetic electron event spectra near 1au. We use measurements of the STEREO Solar Electron and Proton Telescope (SEPT) in the energyrange of 45-425 keV and utilize the SEPT…