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The SPEARHEAD (specification, analysis, and re-calibration of high-energy particle data) project, funded by the European Union Horizon Europe programme, enhances the accuracy and usability of high-energy particle measurements. It…

The scenario of twin coronal mass ejections (CMEs), i.e., a fast and wide primary CME (priCME) preceded by previous CMEs (preCMEs), has been found to be favorable to a more efficient particle acceleration in large solar energetic particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Bin Zhuang , Noé Lugaz , Tingyu Gou , Liuguan Ding

The solar corona below 10 solar radii is an important region for early acceleration and transport of solar energetic particles (SEPs) by coronal mass ejection-driven shock waves. There, these waves propagate into a highly variable dynamic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Kamen Kozarev , Mohamed Nedal , Rositsa Miteva , Momchil Dechev , Pietro Zucca

Impulsive solar energetic particle (ISEP) events show peculiar elemental composition, with enhanced 3He and heavy-ion abundances, markedly different from our solar system composition. Furthermore, the events are characterized by a wide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 R. Bucik

Solar flares and CMEs have a broad range of magnitudes. This review discusses the possibility of "extreme events," defined as those with magnitudes greater than have been seen in the existing historical record. For most quantitative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Hugh S. Hudson

Predictions of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs) are a central issue in space weather forecasting. In recent years, interest in space weather predictions has expanded to include impacts at other planets…

To improve the forecasting capability of impactful solar energetic particle (SEP) events, the relation between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and SEP events needs to be better understood. Here we present a statistical study of SEP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Kosuke Kihara , Yuwei Huang , Nobuhiko Nishimura , Nariaki V. Nitta , Seiji Yashiro , Kiyoshi Ichimoto , Ayumi Asai

We investigate the response of outer radiation belt electron fluxes to different solar wind and geomagnetic indices using an interpretable machine learning method. We reconstruct the electron flux variation during 19 enhancement and 7…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Donglai Ma , Jacob Bortnik , Qianli Ma , Man Hua , Xiangning Chu

An outstanding problem in heliospheric physics is understanding the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEP) in coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares. A fundamental question is whether the acceleration occurs in interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Kamen Kozarev , Maher A. Dayeh , Ashraf Farahat

Thirty years ago Breneman and Stone observed that the enhancement or suppression of element abundances in large solar energetic-particle (SEP) events varies as a power of the mass-to-charge ratio, A/Q, of the elements. Since Q during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-06 Donald V. Reames

Aims The possible influence of solar superflares on the near-Earth space radiation environment are assessed through the investigation of scaling laws between the peak proton flux and fluence of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Athanasios Papaioannou , Konstantin Herbst , Tobias Ramm , Edward W. Cliver , David Lario , Astrid M. Veronig

This paper investigates the conditions for producing rapid variations of solar ener- getic particle (SEP) intensity commonly known as dropouts. In particular, we use numerical model simulations based on solving the focused transport…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Wang , G. Qin , M. Zhang , S. Dalla

The magnetic field of the Sun drives a wide range of eruptive phenomena, from small-scale nanoflares to large flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). While direct observations of solar activity cover only the past few decades, indirect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Valeriy Vasilyev , Natalie Krivova , Ilya Usoskin

Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events are critical for understanding particle acceleration and transport in the heliosphere. While most SEP events involve outward streaming particles along open magnetic field lines, bidirectional events…

Using high-cadence extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) images obtained by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory, we investigate the solar sources of 26 $^{3}$He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nariaki V. Nitta , Glenn M. Mason , Linghua Wang , Christina M. S. Cohen , Mark E. Wiedenbeck

Context. Current solar energetic particle (SEP) propagation models describe the effects of interplanetary plasma turbulence on SEPs as diffusion, using a Fokker-Planck (FP) equation. However, FP models cannot explain the observed fast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 T. Laitinen , A. Kopp , F. Effenberger , S. Dalla , M. S. Marsh

An interval of exceptional solar activity was registered in early September 2017, late in the decay phase of solar cycle 24, involving the complex Active Region 12673 as it rotated across the western hemisphere with respect to Earth. A…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 A. Bruno , E. R. Christian , G. A. de Nolfo , I. G. Richardson , J. M. Ryan

How impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events are produced by magnetic-reconnection-driven processes during solar flares remains an outstanding question. Here we report a short-duration SEP event associated with an X-class eruptive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Meiqi Wang , Bin Chen , Trevor Knuth , Christina Cohen , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang , Sijie Yu

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…

The multitude of recent multi-point spacecraft observations of solar energetic particle (SEP) events have made it possible to study the longitudinal distribution of SEPs in great detail. SEPs, even those accelerated during impulsive events,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-12 R. D. Strauss , H. Fichtner