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Widespread solar energetic particle (SEP) events remain poorly understood phenomena in space weather. These events are often linked to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their shocks, but the mechanisms governing their global particle…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 N. Wijsen , I. C. Jebaraj , N. Dresing , A. Kouloumvakos , E. Palmerio , L. Rodríguez-García

Scattering, during interplanetary transport in large, "gradual" solar energetic-particle (SEP) events, can cause element abundance enhancements or suppressions that depend upon the mass-to-charge ratio A/Q of the ions as an increasing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Donald V. Reames

Energetic particles emitted by active stars are likely to propagate in astrospheric magnetized plasma turbulent and disrupted by the prior passage of energetic Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). We carried out test-particle simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 F. Fraschetti , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , J. J. Drake , O. CoheN , C. Garraffo

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

As the most energetic eruptions in the solar system, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can produce shock waves at both their front and flanks as they erupt from the Sun into the heliosphere. However, the amount of energy produced in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 David M. Long , Deborah Baker , David R. Williams , Eoin P. Carley , Peter T. Gallagher , Pietro Zucca

We present a new empirical model to predict solar energetic particle (SEP) event-integrated and peak intensity spectra between 10 and 130 MeV at 1 AU, based on multi-point spacecraft measurements from the Solar TErrestrial RElations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Alessandro Bruno , Ian G. Richardson

We present our results on the correlation of non-interacting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs). A statistical analysis was conducted on 25 SEP events and the associated CME and flare during the ascending…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Anitha Ravishankar , Grzegorz Michalek

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) can pose hazardous radiation risks to both humans and spacecraft electronics in space. Numerical modeling based on first principles offers valuable insights into the underlying physics of SEPs and provides…

In large gradual solar energetic particle (SEP) events, especially the ground-level enhancement (GLE) events, where and how energetic particles are accelerated is still a problem. By using imaging data from TRACE, Yohkoh/HXT, SOHO/MDI and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Li , Y. H. Tang , Y. Dai , W. G. Zong , C. Fang

Context. Some of of the most prominent sources for energetic particles in our Solar System are huge eruptions of magnetised plasma from the Sun called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which usually drive shocks that accelerate charged…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 D. E. Morosan , J. Pomoell , A. Kumari , R. Vainio , E. K. J. Kilpua

We probe the spectral hardening of solar flares emission in view of associated solar proton events (SEPs) at earth and coronal mass ejection (CME) acceleration as a consequence. In this investigation we undertake 60 SEPs of the Solar Cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-22 Sharad C Tripathi , Parvaiz A Khan , Aslam A M , A K Gwal , P K Purohit , Rajmal Jain

A leading theory of sunquake generation involves flare-accelerated particles depositing energy into the photosphere. Simulations of sunquake excitation suggest co-excitation with wavefronts propagating in the corona and chromosphere,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Robert Bush , John Stefan , Alexander Kosovichev

We study selected properties of Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events as inferred from their associated radio emissions. We used a catalogue of 115 SEP events that consists of entries of proton intensity enhancements at one AU, with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 A. Kouloumvakos , A. Nindos , E. Valtonen , C. E. Alissandrakis , O. Malandraki , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos , X. Moussas , A. Hillaris

The underlying origin of solar eruptive events (SEEs), ranging from giant coronal mass ejections to small coronal-hole jets, is that the lowest-lying magnetic flux in the Sun's corona undergoes the continual buildup of stress and free…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kalman J. Knizhnik , Spiro K. Antiochos , C. Richard DeVore , Peter F. Wyper

A model of electric energization of the Solar Wind and Corona is developed, including electro-magnetic (EM) particle effects precluded by traditional magneto-hydro (MHD) assumptions. Using standard 1-D radial Solar models for particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Charles F. Driscoll

The physical processes, which drive powerful solar eruptions, play an important role in our understanding of the Sun-Earth connection. In this Special Issue, we firstly discuss how magnetic fields emerge from the solar interior to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Vasilis Archontis , Loukas Vlahos

The processes responsible for the acceleration of solar energetic particles (SEPs) are still not well understood, including whether SEP electrons and protons are accelerated by common or separate processes. Using a numerical particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 R. D. Strauss , N. Dresing , I. G. Richardson , J. P. van den Berg , P. J. Steyn

Solar flare electron acceleration is an efficient process, but its properties (mechanism, location) are not well constrained. Via hard X-ray (HXR) emission, we routinely observe energetic electrons at the Sun, and sometimes we detect…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-09 Ross Pallister , Natasha L. S. Jeffrey

After introduction we focus on: the transport of charged particles, the acceleration of ions at shocks, and the acceleration of electrons at shocks. Chapter 2 studies the propagation of solar energetic particles(SEPs) in turbulent magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-16 Fan Guo

The Sun is an effective particle accelerator producing solar energetic particle (SEP) events during which particles up to several GeVs can be observed. Those events observed at Earth with the neutron monitor network are called ground level…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Patrick Kühl , Nina Dresing , Bernd Heber , Andreas Klassen