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We present a 2D kinematic model to study the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEPs) at a shock driven by a coronal mass ejection. The shock is assumed to be spherical about an origin that is offset from the center of the Sun. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Xiaohang Chen , Joe Giacalone , Fan Guo

We address the problem of deconvolving the effects of interplanetary transport on observed intensity and anisotropy profiles of solar energetic particles with the goal of determining the time profile and spectrum of particle injection near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Ruffolo , T. Khumlumlert , W. Youngdee

Spectra of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) measured at the Earth are the combination of several processes: sources production and acceleration, propagation in the interstellar medium and propagation in the heliosphere. Inside the solar cavity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Bobik , G. Boella , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , E. Memola , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita , M. Tacconi

3He-rich solar energetic particles (SEPs) are believed to be accelerated in solar flares or jets by a mechanism that depends on the ion charge-to-mass (Q/M) ratio. It implies that the flare plasma characteristics (e.g., temperature) may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 R. Bucik , S. M. Mulay , G. M. Mason , N. V. Nitta , M. I. Desai , M. A. Dayeh

Propagation of energetic particles across the mean field direction in turbulent magnetic fields is often described as spatial diffusion. Recently, it has been suggested that initially the particles propagate systematically along meandering…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 T. Laitinen , S. Dalla , D. Marriott

We address the effect of particle scattering on the energy spectra of solar energetic electron events using i) an observational and ii) a modeling approach. i) We statistically study observations of the STEREO spacecraft making use of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-08 R. Du Toit Strauss , Nina Dresing , Alexander Kollhoff , Maximillian Brüdern

Past observations show that solar wind (SW) acceleration occurs inside the sub-Alfvenic region, reaching the local Alfven speed at typical distances ~ 10 - 20 Rs (solar radii). Recently, Parker Solar Probe (PSP) traversed regions of…

A heliopause spectrum at 122 AU from the Sun is presented for galactic electrons over an energy range from 1 MeV to 50 GeV that can be considered the lowest possible local interstellar spectrum (LIS). The focus is on the spectral shape of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-12 M. S. Potgieter , R. R. Nndanganeni

The galactic cosmic rays (GCR) suffer from solar modulation when they propagate through the heliosphere. The transfer of the local interstellar spectrum (LIS) to the top-of-atmosphere spectra (TOA) is influenced by solar wind convection,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Cheng-Rui Zhu

We address the problem of how particles that are accelerated by solar flares can escape promptly into the heliosphere, on time scales of an hour or less. Impulsive solar energetic particles (SEP) bursts are generally observed in association…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sophie Masson , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Rick DeVore

The acceleration of charged particles by interplanetary shocks (IPs) can drain a non-negligible fraction of the plasma pressure. In this study, we have selected 17 IPs observed in-situ at $1\,\text{au}$ by the Advanced Composition Explorer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Liam David , Federico Fraschetti , Joe Giacalone , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , Lars Berger , David Lario

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) in the energy range 10s KeV/nucleon-100s MeV/nucleon originate from Sun. Their high flux near Earth may damage the space borne electronics and generate secondary radiations harmful for the life on Earth and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Neeraj Jain , Jörg Büchner , Miroslav Bárta , Radoslav Bučík

Ground Level Enhancements (GLEs) probe the earliest, highest-energy solar energetic particles and thus provide a unique window onto particle release and transport from the low corona to 1 AU. We present a uniform, event-resolved analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Alessandro Bruno , Silvia Dalla

The particle and radiation environment in cis-lunar space is becoming increasingly important as more hardware and human assets occupy various orbits around the Earth and space exploration efforts turn to the Moon and beyond. Since 2020, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 Claudio Corti , Kathryn Whitman , Ravindra Desai , Jamie Rankin , Du Toit Strauss , Nariaki Nitta , Drew Turner , Thomas Y Chen

During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) was operated whenever the orbit was above 52000 km during…

A series of solar energetic particle (SEP) events were observed at Parker Solar Probe (PSP) by the Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (\ISOIS) during the period from April 18, 2019 through April 24, 2019. The PSP spacecraft was…

We investigate the solar phenomena associated with the origin of the solar energetic particle (SEP) event observed on 2013 April 11 by a number of spacecraft distributed in the inner heliosphere over a broad range of heliolongitudes. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Lario , N. E. Raouafi , R. -Y. Kwon , J. Zhang , R. Gomez-Herrero , N. Dresing , P. Riley

Ground Level Enhancement (GLE) in large solar energetic particle (SEP) events is indicative of protons accelerated to GeV energies. Almost all GLE events are associated with sustained gamma-ray emission (SGRE) from the Sun because the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Nat Gopalswamy , Pertti Makela , Hong Xie , Sachiko Akiyama , Seiji Yashiro , Atul Mohan

In this work, we present detailed simulations for propagation of ultra-high energy (UHE) heavy nuclei, with E > 60 EeV, within recent Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) models. We investigate the impacts of the regular and turbulent components…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz , G. Sigl

High-energy particles may be accelerated widely in stellar coronae; probably by the same processes we find in the Sun. Here, we have learned of two physical mechanisms that dominate the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEPs). The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Donald V. Reames