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In order to study the propagation of solar cosmic rays in interplanetary space a computer program has been developed using a Monte-Carlo technique, which traces the histories of particles released impulsively at the Sun. The particle propagation model considers the adiabatic deceleration during the convective and diffusive transport of the particles, and the model of the interplanetary medium incorporates a radially expanding blast wave which exerts a sweeping action on the particles and accelerates them through the first-order Fermi process. It is shown that energetic storm particle events cannot be simulated by assuming a pure sweeping action of the interplanetary blast wave, but that energization of the particles while reflected at the shock can explain many observed features of such events. 相似文献
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A large energetic storm particle event associated with an interplanetary shock was detected by ISEE-3 on 24 April, 1979. We have studied the effects of this shock on the flux and anisotropy profiles in the upstream region of the particle event, and we have developed a propagation model that permits to reproduce the observations. This model includes particle injection, both at the Sun and at the shock, therefore it allows to study the parameters for the interplanetary propagation of low-energy particles, the particle injection rates, and to relate them to the conditions at the shock front.Paper presented at the 11 th European Regional Astronomical Meetings of the IAU on New Windows to the Universe, held 3–8 July, 1989, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. 相似文献
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Solar and shock-accelerated protons were observed by the interplanetary S/C GIOTTO and aboard the Earth orbiting satellite IMP-8 during solar minimum conditions in February 1986. Forward and reverse shock configurations developed on 9–11 February, 1986 and could be recognized by sunward and anti-sunward proton propagation. The results are consistent with a general east-west asymmetry in particle fluxes observed within a distance of 1 AU from the Sun and caused by quasi-perpendicular and quasi-parallel shock configurations in the interplanetary magnetic field. The high-energy protons (>1 GeV) measured simultaneously by ground-based neutron monitors showed a complementary enhanced amplitude in the diurnal variation on 9 February, 1986. 相似文献
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N. Dresing R. Gómez-Herrero A. Klassen B. Heber Y. Kartavykh W. Dr?ge 《Solar physics》2012,281(1):281-300
We investigate multi-spacecraft observations of the 17 January 2010 solar energetic particle event. Energetic electrons and protons have been observed over a remarkable large longitudinal range at the two STEREO spacecraft and SOHO, suggesting a longitudinal spread of nearly 360 degrees at 1?AU. The flaring active region, which was on the backside of the Sun as seen from Earth, was separated by more than 100 degrees in longitude from the magnetic footpoints of each of the three spacecraft. The event is characterized by strongly delayed energetic particle onsets with respect to the flare and only small or no anisotropies in the intensity measurements at all three locations. The presence of a coronal shock is evidenced by the observation of a type II radio burst from the Earth and STEREO-B. In order to describe the observations in terms of particle transport in the interplanetary medium, including perpendicular diffusion, a 1D model describing the propagation along a magnetic field line (model 1) (Dr?ge, Astrophys. J. 589, 1027??C?1039, 2003) and the 3D propagation model (model 2) by Dr?ge et?al. (Astrophys. J. 709, 912??C?919, 2010) including perpendicular diffusion in the interplanetary medium have been applied. While both models are capable of reproducing the observations, model 1 requires injection functions at the Sun of several hours. Model 2, which includes lateral transport in the solar wind, reveals high values for the ratio of perpendicular to parallel diffusion. Because we do not find evidence for unusual long injection functions at the Sun, we favor a scenario with strong perpendicular transport in the interplanetary medium as an explanation for the observations. 相似文献
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I. S. Petukhov S. I. Petukhov S. A. Starodubtsev V. E. Timofeev 《Astronomy Letters》2003,29(10):658-666
Based on an analytical model, we determined the temporal dynamics of the spectral shape and spatial distribution of the particles that were impulsively (in time) injected with a specified spectrum in the vicinity of a moving plane shock front. We obtained a condition to determine the influence of the shock front on the particle propagation, where the spatial diffusion coefficient of the particles plays a major role. Diffusive shock acceleration is shown to strongly affect low-energy particles (the intensity maximum coincides spatially with the shock front; hard and soft spectral regions are formed in the spectrum) and weakly affect high-energy particles (the time at which the intensity reaches its maximum is well ahead of the shock arrival time; the spectral shape does not change). In events accompanied by a significant increase in the turbulence level, the influence of the shock front on high-energy particles can change from weak to strong. This change shows up in the spatial distribution and spectral shape of the particles. The dynamics of the particle intensity, calculated with the diffusion coefficients that were determined in accordance with the quasi-linear theory for measured turbulence levels, qualitatively corresponds to the observed solar energetic-particle intensity. 相似文献
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Based on our analysis of the data fromthe global network of neutronmonitors for several events, we have found the times of
the first increases in count rate at individual stations that precede the main solar cosmic-ray enhancement. The onset time
of proton acceleration at the Sun has been determined from the appearance of a broad gamma-ray line with its maximum near
70 MeV that is generated during the decay of neutral pions, which, in turn, are produced when protons with energies above
300 MeV interact with the solar atmosphere. The time of the first recording of energetic protons at the Earth is delayed relative
to the time at which these protons appeared at the Sun by 60–300 s, i.e., by a value comparable to the difference between
the direct photon and particle propagation times. At least two conclusions follow from the existence of such “precursors”.
First, the protons begin to escape from the solar atmosphere into interplanetary space immediately after their acceleration.
Second, some of the protons traverse a path shorter than the nominal length of interplanetary magnetic field lines. 相似文献
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R. A. Lyttleton 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1976,44(1):119-140
Revised equations of motion are formulated on more general assumptions than hitherto making allowance for some reflection of sunlight by a dust-particle, and from these the secular rates of change of the orbital elements of the particle are obtained. The equation for the eccentricity yields numerical results for the time taken for given changes in this element to occur. Other elements turn out to be expressible in terms of the eccentricity and thence are effectively also known in terms of the time. More general forms of earlier results are found, and some new mathematical results in the theory of the process are derived. The time of infall to the Sun associated with almost circular initial motion of a particle is calculated, and also the time from an orbit of initially high eccentricity. In this latter case, infall takes place much more rapidly than from a circular orbit of radius comparable with the average distance in the eccentric orbit. The effect on a particle of a long-period comet during a single return is negligible compared with the change in its binding-energy to the Sun that will in general result from planetary action. The possible history of a dust-particle from original capture by the Sun to final infall to the solar surface is briefly considered. 相似文献
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The anisotropy of the particle distribution and its variation with time at 1 AU early in a solar cosmic ray event can provide information on the pitch-angle scattering of the particles in the interplanetary medium. The proton event of 20 April 1971 is described in which the anisotropy of the 7.6–55 MeV energy channel remained large (? 100%) and field-aligned well into the decay phase of the event. A Monte Carlo technique, which gives the pitch-angle distribution, is employed to investigate two models put forward to explain this sustained anisotropy. It is shown that the observed event is consistent with one model in which the injection of particles at the Sun decayed with ane-folding time of 7 hr. In this model the parallel propagation is determined by small-angle scattering in a diverging field equivalent to a uniform diffusion coefficient of 2.1 × 1022 cm2 s?1 (the corresponding classical mean free path is 0.90 AU). A model with impulsive injection and in whichκ(r) increases strongly with distance from the Sun cannot satisfactorily explain the observations. 相似文献
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M. -B. Kallenrode G. Wibberenz H. Kunow R. Müller-Mellin V. Stolpovskii N. Kontor 《Solar physics》1993,147(2):377-410
We present a sample of solar energetic particle events observed between November 18 and December 31, 1982 by the HELIOS 1, the VENERA 13, and IMP 8 spacecraft. During the entire time period all three spacecraft were magnetically connected to the western hemisphere of the Sun with varying radial and angular distances from the flares. Eleven proton events, all of them associated with interplanetary shocks, were observed by the three spacecraft. These events are visible in the low-energy (about 4 MeV) as well as the high-energy (30 MeV) protons. In the largest events protons were observed up to energies of about 100 MeV. The shocks were rather fast and in some cases extended to more than 90% east of the flare site. Assuming a symmetrical configuration, this would correspond to a total angular extent of some interplanetary shocks of about 180%. In addition, due to the use of three spacecraft at different locations we find some indication for the shape of the shock front: the shocks are fastest close to the flare normal and are slower at the eastern flank. For particle acceleration we find that close to the flare normal the shock is most effective in accelerating energetic particles. This efficiency decreases for observers connected to the eastern flank of the shock. In this case, the efficiency of shock acceleration for high-energy protons decreases faster than for low-energy protons. Observation of the time-intensity profiles combined with variations of the anisotropy and of the steepness of the proton spectrum allows one in general to define two components of an event which we term solar and interplanetary. We attempt to describe the results in terms of a radially variable efficiency of shock acceleration. Under the assumption that the shock is responsible not only for the interplanetary, but also for the solar component, we find evidence for a very efficient particle acceleration while the shock is still close to the Sun, e.g., in the corona. In addition, we discuss this series of strong flares and interplanetary shocks as a possible source for the formation of a superevent. 相似文献
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S. Pohjolainen L. van Driel-Gesztelyi J. L. Culhane P. K. Manoharan H. A. Elliott 《Solar physics》2007,244(1-2):167-188
We explore the relationship among three coronal mass ejections (CMEs), observed on 28 October 2003, 7 November 2004, and 20 January 2005, the type II burst-associated shock waves in the corona and solar wind, as well as the arrival of their related shock waves and magnetic clouds at 1 AU. Using six different coronal/interplanetary density models, we calculate the speeds of shocks from the frequency drifts observed in metric and decametric radio wave data. We compare these speeds with the velocity of the CMEs as observed in the plane-of-the-sky white-light observations and calculated with a cone model for the 7 November 2004 event. We then follow the propagation of the ejecta using Interplanetary Scintillation measurements, which were available for the 7 November 2004 and 20 January 2005 events. Finally, we calculate the travel time of the interplanetary shocks between the Sun and Earth and discuss the velocities obtained from the different data. This study highlights the difficulties in making velocity estimates that cover the full CME propagation time. 相似文献
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We report observations made from several interplanetary spacecraft, of the large low-energy particle event of 23–27 April, 1979 associated with solar filament activity. We discuss the intensity, spectral and directional evolution of the event as observed in the energy range 35–1600 keV on ISEE-3, located ～ 0.99 AU from the Sun upstream of the Earth. We demonstrate that the shock disturbance propagating through the interplanetary medium and observed at ISEE-3 on 24/25 April strongly controls the particle event. From a comparison of the ISEE-3 observations with those on other spacecraft, in particular on Helios-2, located at 0.41 AU heliocentric distance near the Sun-Earth line, we identify the solar filament erupting on late 22 April near central meridian as the trigger for the propagating shock disturbance. This disturbance which comprises a forward shock and a reverse shock at the orbit of ISEE-3 is found to be the main source of the energetic proton population observed. 相似文献
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Lev I. Dorman 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,264(1-4):443-455
Influence of cosmic ray pressure and kinetic stream instability on space plasma dynamics and magnetic structure are considered.
It is shown that in the outer Heliosphere are important dynamics effects of galactic cosmic ray pressure on solar wind and
interplanetary shock wave propagation as well as on the formation of terminal shock wave of the Heliosphere and subsonic region
between Heliosphere and interstellar medium. Kinetic stream instability effects are important on distances more than 40–60
AU from the Sun: formation of great anisotropy of galactic cosmic rays in about spiral interplanetary magnetic field leads
to the Alfven turbulence generation by non isotropic cosmic ray fluxes. Generated Alfven turbulence influences on cosmic ray
propagation, increases the cosmic ray modulation, decreases the cosmic ray anisotropy and increases the cosmic ray pressure
gradient in the outer Heliosphere (the later is also important for terminal shock wave formation).
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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We study the spatial distribution of solar energetic particles (SEPs) throughout the inner heliosphere during six large SEP events from the period 1977 through 1979, as deduced from observations on the Helios 1 and 2, IMP 7 and 8, ISEE 3, and Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Evidence of intensity maxima associated with the expanding shock wave is commonly seen along its central and western flanks, although the region of peak acceleration or “nose” of the shock is sometimes highly localized in longitude. In one event (1 January 1978) a sharp peak in 20?–?30 MeV proton intensities is seen more strongly by Voyager at ～?2 AU than it is by spacecraft at nearby longitudes at ～?1 AU. Large spatial regions, or “reservoirs,” often exist behind the shocks with spatially uniform SEP intensities and invariant spectra that decrease adiabatically with time as their containment volume expands. Reservoirs are seen to sweep past 0.3 AU and can extend out many AU. Boundaries of the reservoirs can vary with time and with particle velocity, rather than rigidity. In one case, a second shock wave from the Sun reaccelerates protons that retain the same hard spectrum as protons in the reservoir from the preceding SEP event. Thus reservoirs can provide not only seed particles but also a “seed spectrum” with a spectral shape that is unchanged by a weaker second shock. 相似文献
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The shock front (SF) propagation in the solar atmosphere with a power-law decrease of density is studied in the Kompaneets approximation. It is shown that the SF part moving from the Sun in the radial direction speeds up at the exponent n > 3 and slows down at n < 3. When passing from the lower corona with n = 6 to the solar wind with n = 2, the acceleration in the front part changes into deceleration. This result allows us to understand the kinematics of the SF obtained from the observational data on type II bursts at low frequencies. Besides, in the region of solar wind, new analytical solutions of the Kompaneets equation (KE) for SF have been obtained. One of them describes SF as an expanding sphere with the center moving from the Sun (plain case). Another solution has been obtained for the case of the inverse near-square law density depending on radius with the singularity at a given levelR. 相似文献
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A new interpretation of the low frequency type II solar radio bursts of 30 June 1971, and 7–8 August 1972 observed with IMP-6 satellite (Malitson et al., 1973a,b) is suggested. The analysis is carried out for two models of the electron density distribution in the interplanetary medium taking into account that N ~ 3.5 cm?3 at a distance of 1 a.u. It is assumed that the frequency of the radio emission corresponds to the average electron density behind the shock front which exceeds the undisturbed electron density by the factor of 3. The radio data indicate essential deceleration of the shock waves during propagation from the Sun up to 1 a.u. The characteristics of the shock waves obtained from the type II bursts agree with the results of the in situ observations. 相似文献
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We analyze five events of the interaction of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with the remote coronal rays located up to 90°
away from the CME as observed by the SOHO/LASCO C2 coronagraph. Using sequences of SOHO/LASCO C2 images, we estimate the kink
propagation in the coronal rays during their interaction with the corresponding CMEs ranging from 180 to 920 km s−1 within the interval of radial distances from 3 R
⊙ to 6 R
⊙. We conclude that all studied events do not correspond to the expected pattern of shock wave propagation in the corona. Coronal
ray deflection can be interpreted as the influence of the magnetic field of a moving flux rope within the CME. The motion
of a large-scale flux rope away from the Sun creates changes in the structure of surrounding field lines, which are similar
to the kink propagation along coronal rays. The retardation of the potential should be taken into account since the flux rope
moves at a high speed, comparable with the Alfvén speed. 相似文献
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J. T. Gosling E. Hildner R. M. Macqueen R. H. Munro A. I. Poland C. L. Ross 《Solar physics》1975,40(2):439-448
Numerous mass ejections from the Sun have been detected with orbiting coronagraphs. Here for the first time we document and discuss the direct association of a coronagraph observed mass ejection, which followed a 2B flare, with a large interplanetary shock wave disturbance observed at 1 AU. Estimates of the mass (2.4 × 1016 g) and energy content (1.1 × 1032 erg) of the coronal disturbance are in reasonably good agreement with estimates of the mass and energy content of the solar wind disturbance at 1 AU. The energy estimates as well as the transit time of the disturbance are also in good agreement with numerical models of shock wave propagation in the solar wind. 相似文献
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K.-I. Nishikawa C. B. Hededal P. E. Hardee G. J. Fishman C. Kouveliotou Y. Mizuno 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,307(1-3):319-323
We have applied numerical simulations and modeling to the particle acceleration, magnetic field generation, and emission from
relativistic shocks. We investigate the nonlinear stage of theWeibel instability and compare our simulations with the observed
gamma-ray burst emission. In collisionless shocks, plasma waves and their associated instabilities (e.g., the Weibel, Buneman
and other two-stream instabilities) are responsible for particle (electron, positron, and ion) acceleration and magnetic field
generation. 3-D relativistic electromagnetic particle (REMP) simulations with three different electron-positron jet velocity
distributions and also with an electron-ion plasma have been performed and show shock processes including spatial and temporal
evolution of shocks in unmagnetized ambient plasmas. The growth time and nonlinear saturation levels depend on the initial
jet parallel velocity distributions. Simulations show that the Weibel instability created in the collisionless shocks accelerates
jet and ambient particles both perpendicular and parallel to the jet propagation direction. The nonlinear fluctuation amplitude
of densities, currents, electric, and magnetic fields in the electron-positron shocks are larger for smaller jet Lorentz factor.
This comes from the fact that the growth time of the Weibel instability is proportional to the square of the jet Lorentz factor.
We have performed simulations with broad Lorentz factor distribution of jet electrons and positrons, which is assumed to be
created by photon annihilation. Simulation results with this broad distribution show that the Weibel instability is excited
continuously by the wide-range of jet Lorentz factor from lower to higher values. In all simulations the Weibel instability
is responsible for generating and amplifying magnetic fields perpendicular to the jet propagation direction, and contributes
to the electron’s (positron’s) transverse deflection behind the jet head. This small scale magnetic field structure contributes
to the generation of “jitter” radiation from deflected electrons (positrons), which is different from synchrotron radiation
in uniform magnetic fields. The jitter radiation resulting from small scale magnetic field structures may be important for
understanding the complex time structure and spectral evolution observed in gamma-ray bursts or other astrophysical sources
containing relativistic jets and relativistic collisionless shocks. The detailed studies of shock microscopic process evolution
may provide some insights into early and later GRB afterglows. 相似文献
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M. Lumme M. Nieminen J. J. Torsti E. Vainikka J. Peltonen E. Valtonen H. Arvela 《Solar physics》1986,107(1):183-194
Particle fluxes and pitch angle distributions of relativistic solar protons at Earth's orbit have been determined by Monte Carlo calculations. The analysis covers two hours after the release of the particles from the Sun and total of 8 × 106 particle trajectories were simulated. The pitch angle scattering was assumed to be isotropic and the scattering mean free path was varied from 0.1 to 4 AU.The intensity-time profiles after a delta-like injection from the Sun show that the interplanetary propagation is clearly non-diffusive at scattering mean-free paths above 0.5 AU. All pitch angle distributions have a steady minimum at 90 °, and they become similar about 20 min after the arrival of first particles.As an application, the solar injection profile and the interplanetary scattering mean-free path of particles that gave rise to the GLE on 7 May, 1978 were determined. In contrast to the values of 3–5 AU published by other authors, the average scattering mean-free path was found to be about 1 AU. 相似文献
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Predicting the Arrival Time of Shock Passages at Earth 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The purpose of this parametric study is to predict the arrival time at Earth of shocks due to disturbances observed on the Sun. A 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code is used to simulate the evolution of these disturbances as they propagate out to 1 AU. The model in Han, Wu and Dryer (1988) uses solar data for input at 0.08 AU (18 solar radii). The initial shock speed (ISS) is assumed to be constant from the corona to 0.08 AU. We investigate how variations of this ISS affect the arrival times of the shock at Earth. This basic parametric study, however, does not consider inhomogeneous background solar wind structures such as corotating interaction regions and their precursor stream–stream interactions, nor interplanetary manifestations of complex coronal mass ejecta such as magnetic clouds. In the latter case, only their associated shocks are considered. Because the ambient (pre-existing background) solar wind speed is known to affect the shock arrival time at 1 AU, we also simulated events with various background solar wind speeds (BSWS) to investigate this effect. The results show that the shock arrival time at Earth depends on the BSWS, the speed of solar disturbances, their size, and their source location at the Sun. However, it is found that for a sufficiently large momentum input, the shock arrival time at Earth is not significantly affected by the pre-existing solar wind speed. 相似文献