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Heavy (Z>26) solar energetic particles (SEPs) with energies ~1 MeV/nucleon are known to leave visible damage tracks in meteoritic materials. The density of such solar flare tracks in lunar and asteroidal samples has been used as a measure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 A. R. Poppe , P. S. Szabo , E. R. Imata , L. P. Keller , R. Christoffersen

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are an important space radiation source, especially for the space weather environment in the inner heliosphere. The energy spectrum of SEP events is crucial both for evaluating their radiation effects and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Yubao Wang , Jingnan Guo

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

The aim of this work is to summarize the main underlying assumptions, simplifications and uncertainties while studying solar energetic particles (SEPs). In general, numerous definitions are used for the evaluation of a given SEP parameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 R. Miteva , S. W. Samwel , M. V. Costa-Duarte

In a field overflowing with beautiful images of the Sun, solar energetic particle (SEP) events are a hidden asset, perhaps a secret weapon, that can sample the solar corona and carry away unique imprints of its most bizarre and violent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-08 Donald V. Reames

The detailed shapes of spectral line profiles provide valuable information about the emitting plasma, especially when the plasma contains an unresolved mixture of velocities, temperatures, and densities. As a result of finite spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 James A. Klimchuk , Spiros Patsourakos , Durgesh Tripathi

The relative abundances of chemical elements and isotopes have been our most effective tool in identifying and understanding energetic particles. The early surprise in solar energetic particles (SEPs) was 1000-fold enhancements in 3He/4He…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-03 Donald V. Reames

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

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) and radio bursts are indicators of particle acceleration on the Sun and in the heliosphere. The accelerated particles have energies significantly higher than thermal particles up to several orders of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Nat Gopalswamy

The Solar energetic particle analysis platform for the inner heliosphere (SERPENTINE) project presents it's new multi-spacecraft SEP event catalog for events observed in solar cycle 25. Observations from five different viewpoints are…

Metric type II solar radio bursts and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are both associated with shock fronts driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the solar corona. Recent studies of ground level enhancements (GLEs), regular large…

We study the differences in the heavy ion composition of solar energetic particle (SEP) events between solar cycles 23 and 24. We have surveyed the SOHO/ERNE heavy ion data from the beginning of solar cycle 23 until the end of June 2015,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 O. Raukunen , E. Valtonen , R. Vainio

We have studied the spatial and temporal distribution of abundances of chemical elements in large "gradual" solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, and especially the source plasma temperatures, derived from those abundances, using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-19 Donald V. Reames

In this work, more than a dozen solar energetic particle (SEP) events are identified where the source region is magnetically well-connected to at least one spacecraft at 1~au. The observed intensity-time profiles, for all available proton…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 J. T. Lang , R. D. Strauss , N. E. Engelbrecht , J. P. van den Berg , N. Dresing , D. Ruffolo , R. Bandyopadhyay

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been observed by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft since its launch in 2018. These events include sources from solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Onboard PSP is the IS\(\odot\)IS…

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

We study periods of elevated energetic particle intensities observed by STEREO-A when the partial pressure exerted by energetic ($\geq$83 keV) protons ($P_{EP}$) is larger than the pressure exerted by the interplanetary magnetic field…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 D. Lario , R. B. Decker , E. C. Roelof , A. -F. Vinas

For future human missions to Mars, it is important to study the surface radiation environment during extreme and elevated conditions. In the long term, it is mainly Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) modulated by solar activity that contributes to…