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Solar wind stream interaction regions (SIRs) are often characterized by energetic ion enhancements. The mechanisms accelerating these particles, as well as the locations where the acceleration occurs, remain debated. Here, we report the…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Nicolas Wijsen , Evangelia Samara , Àngels Aran , David Lario , Jens Pomoell , Stefaan Poedts

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) are one of the extreme space weather phenomena. A huge SEP event increases the radiation dose received by aircrews, who should be warned of such events as early as possible. We developed a warning system for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-07 Yûki Kubo , Ryuho Kataoka , Tatsuhiko Sato

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

The injection, propagation and arrival of solar energetic particles (SEPs) during eruptive solar events is an important and current research topic of heliospheric physics. During the largest solar events, particles may have energies up to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 M. Battarbee , J. Guo , S. Dalla , R. Wimmer-Schweingruber , B. Swalwell , D. J. Lawrence

Solar wind streams, acting as background, govern the propagation of space weather drivers in the heliosphere, which induce geomagnetic storm activities. Therefore, predictions of the solar wind parameters are the core of space weather…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Prateek Mayank , Bhargav Vaidya , D. Chakrabarty

Forecasting large Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events associated with shocks driven by fast coronal mass ejections (CME) pose a major difficulty in the field of Space Weather. Besides issues associated with CME initiation, the SEP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 J. Martin Laming , J. Dan Moses , Yuan-Kuen Ko , Chee K. Ng , Cara E. Rakowski , Allan J. Tylka

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are one of the most crucial aspects of space weather that require continuous monitoring and forecasting. Their prediction depends on various factors including source eruptions. In the present work, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Sumanth A. Rotti , Berkay Aydin , Petrus C. Martens

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) accelerated from shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the major causes of geomagnetic storms on Earth. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the occurrence and intensity of such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are known to occur following solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). However some high-energy solar events do not result in SEPs being detected at Earth, and it is these types of event which may…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Bill Swalwell , Silvia Dalla , Robert Walsh

This work presents results from simulations of the 14 July 2000 ("Bastille Day") solar proton event. We used the Energetic Particle Radiation Environment Model (EPREM) and the CORona-HELiosphere (CORHEL) software suite within the SPE Threat…

Context: Parameters of solar energetic particle (SEP) event profiles such as the onset time and peak time have been researched extensively to obtain information on acceleration and transport of SEPs. Corotation of particle-filled magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 R. A. Hyndman , S. Dalla , T. Laitinen , A. Hutchinson , C. M. S. Cohen , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber

We introduce a new solar energetic particle (SEP) transport code that aims at studying the effects of different solar wind configurations on SEP events. We focus on the influence of varying solar wind velocities on the energy changes of…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 N. Wijsen , A. Angels , J. Pomoell , S. Poedts

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can create significant disruption to human activities and systems on Earth, much of which can be mitigated with prior warning of the upstream solar wind conditions. However, it is currently extremely…

We present a catalog of solar energetic particle (SEP) events covering solar cycles 22, 23 and 24. We correlate and integrate three existing catalogs based on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) integral proton flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Sumanth Rotti , Berkay Aydin , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Petrus C. Martens

Large solar eruptive events, including solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), can lead to solar energetic particle (SEP) events. During these events, protons are accelerated up to several GeV and pose numerous space weather risks.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Charlotte Waterfall , Silvia Dalla , Osku Raukunen , Daniel Heynderickx , Piers Jiggens , Rami Vainio

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) possess a high destructive potential as they pose multiple radiation hazards on Earth and onboard spacecrafts. The present work continues a series started with the paper by Borovikov et al.(2018) describing…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 D. Borovikov , I. V. Sokolov , Z. Huang , I. I. Roussev , T. I. Gombosi

The Energetic Particle Radiation Environment Model (EPREM) solves the focused transport equation (FTE) on a Lagrangian grid in a frame co-moving with the solar wind plasma and simulates the acceleration and transport of solar energetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Matthew A. Young , Bala Poduval

High-speed solar wind streams emanating from coronal holes are frequently impinging on the Earth's magnetosphere causing recurrent, medium-level geomagnetic storm activity. Modeling high-speed solar wind streams is thus an essential element…

Modern economies depend critically on satellite infrastructure, yet the aggregate economic consequences of extreme solar energetic particle (SEP) events have not been rigorously assessed. This study develops an integrated framework linking…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 D. Bor , E. J. Oughton , R. S. Weigel , R. Yang , T. Clower , M. J. Wiltberger , R. Linares

On September 10 2017, a fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the active region (AR) 12673, leading to a ground level enhancement (GLE) event at Earth. Using the 2D improved Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Heliosphere…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Zhe-Yi Ding , Gang Li , Jun-Xiang Hu , Shuai Fu