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Diffusion coefficients of energetic charged particles in turbulent magnetic fields are a fundamental aspect of diffusive transport theory but remain incompletely understood. In this work, we use quasi-linear theory to evaluate the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Xiaohang Chen , Joe Giacalone , Fan Guo , Kristopher G. Klein

Context. On 2022 January 20, the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) on board Solar Orbiter measured a solar energetic particle (SEP) event showing unusual first arriving particles from the anti-Sun direction. Near-Earth spacecraft separated…

The trajectories of Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) in an Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) exhibiting large-scale fluctuations due to footpoint motions originating in the photosphere, are simulated using a full-orbit test-particle code.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 James Kelly , Silvia Dalla , Timo Laitinen

Drifts in the Parker spiral interplanetary magnetic field are known to be an important component in the propagation of galactic cosmic rays, while they are thought to be negligible for Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs). As a result they have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-08 S. Dalla , M. S. Marsh , J. Kelly , T. Laitinen

In recent years, new high spatial resolution observations of the Sun's atmosphere have revealed the presence of a plethora of small-scale magnetic elements down to the resolution limit of current cohort of solar telescopes ($\sim 100-120$…

Electromotive force is an essential quantity in dynamo theory. During a coronal mass ejection (CME), magnetic helicity gets decoupled from the Sun and advected into the heliosphere with the solar wind. Eventually, a heliospheric magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-17 Philippe-A. Bourdin , Bernhard Hofer , Yasuhito Narita

Solar eruptive events such as flares and coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven shocks can release solar energetic particles (SEPs) into the heliosphere. The heliospheric current sheet (HCS) is a large-scale structure that separates regions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 C. Han , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , P. Kühl , L. Berger , Z. Ding , A. Kollhoff , Q. Shi , Z. Xu , M. Qin , M. Wang

Although the interplanetary magnetic field variability has been extensively investigated in situ by means of data coming from several space missions, the newly launched missions providing high-resolution measures and approaching the Sun,…

The transport of energetic particles such as Cosmic Rays is governed by the properties of the plasma being traversed. While these properties are rather poorly known for galactic and interstellar plasmas due to the lack of in situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Tobias Wiengarten , Jens Kleimann , Horst Fichtner , Patrick Kühl , Andreas Kopp , Bernd Heber , Ralf Kissmann

Solar energetic particles such as electrons can be accelerated to mildly-relativistic velocities in the solar corona. These electrons travel through the turbulent corona generating radio waves, which are then severely affected by…

As both Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO) reach heliocentric distances closer to the Sun, they present an exciting opportunity to study the structure of CMEs in the inner heliosphere. We present an analysis of the global…

In this work, a gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) event observed by multispacecraft has been simulated. The time profiles of SEP fluxes accelerated by an interplanetary shock in the three-dimensional interplanetary space are obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 G. Qin , Y. Wang

Parker Solar Probe (PSP) achieved its first orbit perihelion on November 6, 2018, reaching a heliocentric distance of about 0.165 au (35.55 R$_\odot$). Here, we study the evolution of fully developed turbulence associated with the slow…

In the full-orbit particle simulations of energetic particle transport in plasmas, the plasma turbulence is typically described as a homogeneous superposition of linear Fourier modes. The turbulence evolution is, however, typically a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Timo Laitinen , Silvia Dalla , James Kelly

Simulation results from a global magnetohydrodynamic model of the solar corona and solar wind are compared with Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations during its first five orbits. The fully three-dimensional model is based on…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Rohit Chhiber , Arcadi V. Usmanov , William H. Matthaeus , Melvyn L. Goldstein

Switchbacks are sudden and large deflections in the magnetic field that Parker Solar Probe frequently observes in the inner heliosphere. Their ubiquitous occurrence has prompted numerous studies to determine their nature and origin. Our…

One of the discoveries made by Parker Solar Probe during first encounters with the Sun is the ubiquitous presence of relatively small-scale structures standing out as sudden deflections of the magnetic field. They were called switchbacks as…

Context. Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are detected in interplanetary space in association with solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The magnetic connection between the observing spacecraft and the solar active region (AR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 S. Dalla , A. Hutchinson , R. A. Hyndman , K. Kihara , N. Nitta , L. Rodriguez-Garcia , T. Laitinen , C. O. G. Waterfall , D. S. Brown

Recent observations have shown that coronal shocks driven by coronal mass ejections can develop and accelerate particles within several solar radii in large solar energetic particle (SEP) events. Motivated by this, we present an SEP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Xiangliang Kong , Fan Guo , Joe Giacalone , Hui Li , Yao Chen

We report the observations of a moderate but relatively intense geo-effective solar eruption on 2015 November 4 from the peripheral diffusive polarities of active region 12443. We use space-borne Solar Dynamics Observatory and ACE…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Rui Wang , Ying D. Liu , Huidong Hu , Xiaowei Zhao