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How thermal particles are accelerated to suprathermal energies is an unsolved issue, crucial for many astrophysical systems. We report novel observations of irregular, dispersive enhancements of the suprathermal particle population upstream…

Interplanetary shocks are fundamental constituents of the heliosphere, where they form as a result of solar activity. We use previously unavailable measurements of interplanetary shocks in the inner heliosphere provided by Solar Orbiter,…

We report for several solar energetic particle events intensity and anisotropy measurements of energetic electrons in the energy range ~ 27 to ~ 500 keV as observed with the Wind and ACE spacecraft in June 2000. The observations onboard…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-10-02 Lingpeng Sun , Yulia Kartavykh , Berndt Klecker , Saem Krucker , Wolfgang Droege

High time-resolution solar wind magnetic field data is employed to study statistics describing intermittency near the first perihelion (~35.6 Rs) of the Parker Solar Probe mission. A merged dataset employing two instruments on the FIELDS…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Rohit Chhiber , William H. Matthaeus , Trevor A. Bowen , Stuart D. Bale

We use large hybrid (kinetic protons-fluid electrons) simulations to investigate the transport of energetic particles in self-consistent electromagnetic configurations of collisionless shocks. In previous papers of this series, we showed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Damiano Caprioli , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Analysis of model fit results of 15,210 electron velocity distribution functions (VDFs), observed within $\pm$2 hours of 52 interplanetary (IP) shocks by the Wind spacecraft near 1 AU, is presented as the third and final part on electron…

The magnetopause marks the outer edge of the Earth's magnetosphere and a distinct boundary between solar wind and magnetospheric plasma populations. In this letter, we use global magnetohydrodynamic simulations to examine the response of…

Recent results by the Van Allen Probes mission showed that the occurrence of energetic ion injections inside geosynchronous orbit could be very frequent throughout the main phase of a geomagnetic storm. Understanding, therefore, the…

Shocks associated with Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections are known to energize charged particles and give rise to Solar Energetic Particles. Many of these energetic particles move ahead of the shock to create a foreshock region. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Shanwlee Sow Mondal , Aveek Sarkar , Sofiane Bourouaine

Interplanetary (IP) shock waves are greatly interesting, as they represent significant phenomena in near-Earth space and are direct drivers of geomagnetic and radiation storms. Moreover, various data and parameters are being explored for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-26 Oleksandr Yakovlev , Oleksiy Dudnik , Anna Wawrzaszek

The particle acceleration and transport process during solar eruptions is one of the critical and long-standing problems in space plasma physics. Through decades of research, it is well accepted that particles with higher energies released…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Yuncong Li , Jingnan Guo , Daniel Pacheco , Yuming Wang , Manuela Temmer , Zheyi Ding , Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

We study how a high-speed solar wind stream embedded in a slow solar wind influences the spread of solar energetic protons in interplanetary space. To model the energetic protons, we used a recently developed particle transport code that…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Nicolas Wijsen , Angels Aran , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

Heliospheric shocks are excellent systems for testing theories of particle acceleration in their environs. These generally fall into two classes: (1) interplanetary shocks that are linear in their ion acceleration characteristics, with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthew G. Baring , Errol J. Summerlin

We show for the first time that different types of suprathermal ion distributions may exist upstream of a single interplanetary shock. ACE and the two ARTEMIS satellites observed a shock on 8 October 2013. The ARTEMIS P1 and P2 spacecraft…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Primoz Kajdic , Heli Hietala , Xochitl Blanco Cano

Voyager spacecraft (V1 and V2) provide unique in situ measurements of perturbations propagating beyond the heliopause through the very local interstellar medium (VLISM), including the shocks and pressure fronts whose origin is debated. In…

We present \emph{in situ} observations of the source regions of interplanetary (IP) type II radio bursts, using data from the Wind spacecraft during the period 1996-2002. We show the results of this survey as well as in-depth analysis of…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pulupa , S. D. Bale

The spatial distributions of different ion species are useful indicators for plasma sheet dynamics. In this statistical study based on 7 years of Cluster observations, we establish the spatial distributions of oxygen ions and protons at…

The Integrated Science Investigations of the Sun (IS$\odot$IS) instrument suite includes two Energetic Particle instruments: EPI-Hi, designed to measure ions from ~1-200 MeV/nuc, and EPI-Lo, designed to measure ions from ~20 keV/nuc to ~15…

This work reports a novel plasma wave observation in the near-Sun solar wind: frequency-dispersed ion acoustic waves. Similar waves were previously reported in association with interplanetary shocks or planetary bow shocks, but the waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 David M. Malaspina , Robert E. Ergun , Iver H. Cairns , Benjamin Short , Jaye L. Verniero , Cynthia Cattell , Roberto Livi

Interplanetary shocks are one of the crucial dynamic phenomena in the Heliosphere. They can accelerate particles to high energies, generate plasma waves, and can trigger geomagnetic storms in Earth's magnetosphere, significantly impacting…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-06 Munkhjargal Lkhagvadorj , Gabor Facsko , Andrea Opitz , Peter Kovacs , David G. Sibeck