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Shock waves driven by fast and wide coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are highly efficient particle accelerators involved in the production of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The gradual SEP event measured by STEREO-A and B on October…

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

Ions and electrons accelerated to high energies during flares and coronal mass ejections at the Sun may escape the solar atmosphere and, guided by the interplanetary magnetic fields, propagate through space to near-Earth locations. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 S. Dalla , K. Herbst , R. Muscheler , M. J. Owens

The earliest evidence on spatial distributions of solar energetic particles (SEPs) compared events from many different source longitudes on the Sun, but the early Pioneers provided the first evidence of the large areas of equal SEP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-14 Donald V. Reames

Studies of patterns of abundance enhancements of elements, relative to solar-coronal abundances, in large solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, and of their power-law dependence on the mass-to-charge ratio A/Q of the ions, have been used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-15 Donald V. Reames

Large solar energetic particle (SEP) events are thought to originate from the shocks driven by fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and thus generally accompanied by type II radio bursts. However, a significant proportion of type II radio…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Xuchun Duan , Ting Li , Yingli Cui , Yijun Hou , Chuan Li , Nicolas Wijsen , Zelong Jiang , Yihua Yan , Suli Ma , Zheng Sun

We investigate the acceleration source of the impulsive solar energetic particle (SEP) events on 2007 January 24. Combining the in situ electron measurements and remote-sensing solar observations, as well as the calculated magnetic fields…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-27 C. Li , S. A. Matthews , L. van Driel-Gesztelyi , J. Sun , C. J. Owen

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

Small 3He-rich solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been commonly associated with extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) jets and narrow coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which are believed to be the signatures of magnetic reconnection involving field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Radoslav Bucik , Davina E. Innes , Glenn M. Mason , Mark E. Wiedenbeck

We discuss possible mechanisms of acceleration of particles in solar flares and show that turbulence plays an important role in all the mechanism. It is also argued that stochastic particle acceleration by turbulent plasma waves is the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-14 Vahe' Petrosian

This paper updates the influence of environmental and source factors of shocks driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that are likely to influence the solar energetic particle (SEP) events. The intensity variation due to CME interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nat Gopalswamy

The early 1970s saw a new and surprising feature in the composition of solar energetic particles (SEPs), resonant enhancements up to 10,000-fold in the ratio 3He/4He that could even make 3He dominant over H in rare events. It was soon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-19 Donald V. Reames

We address the problem of how particles that are accelerated by solar flares can escape promptly into the heliosphere, on time scales of an hour or less. Impulsive solar energetic particles (SEP) bursts are generally observed in association…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sophie Masson , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Rick DeVore

This paper presents a stochastic three-dimensional (3D) focused transport simulation of solar energetic particles (SEPs) produced by a data-driven coronal mass ejection (CME) shock propagating through a data-driven model of coronal and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Lei Cheng , Ming Zhang , David Lario , Laura A. Balmaceda , Ryun Young Kwon , Christina Cohen

We study the abundances of the elements He through Pb in Fe-rich impulsive solar energetic-particle (SEP) events with measurable abundances of ions with atomic number Z>2 observed on the Wind spacecraft, and their relationship with coronal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-06 Donald V. Reames , Edward W. Cliver , Stephen W. Kahler

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…

Solar energetic particles acceleration by a shock wave accompanying a coronal mass ejection (CME) is studied. The description of the accelerated particle spectrum evolution is based on the numerical calculation of the diffusive transport…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 A. S. Petukhova , I. S. Petukhov , S. I. Petukhov , L. T. Ksenofontov

Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) are charged particles accelerated within the solar atmosphere or the interplanetary space by explosive phenomena such as solar flares or Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Once injected into the interplanetary…

We explore the link between solar energetic particles (SEPs) observed at 1 AU and large-scale disturbances propagating in the solar corona, named after the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) as EIT waves, which trace the lateral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 R. Miteva , K. -L. Klein , I. Kienreich , M. Temmer , A. Veronig , O. E. Malandraki

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and/or solar flares. SEPs travel through the corona and interplanetary space to reach Earth, posing a radiation hazard to spacecraft and astronauts…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-07 Lei Cheng , Ming Zhang , Ryun Young Kwon , David Lario