Modeling proton intensity gradients and radiation dose equivalents in the inner heliosphere using EMMREM: May 2003 solar events

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Nov 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010spwea...800e07d&link_type=abstract

Space Weather, Volume 8, Issue 9, CiteID S00E07

Physics

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Space Weather: Impacts On Humans, Space Weather: Space Radiation Environment

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Solar energetic particles (SEPs) provide a significant radiation hazard for manned and unmanned interplanetary (IP) space missions. In order to estimate these hazards, it is essential to quantify the gradients of SEP intensities in the IP medium. The Earth-Moon-Mars Radiation Exposure Module (EMMREM) is a new project aimed at characterizing the time-dependent radiation exposure in IP space. In this paper, we utilize EMMREM to study the radial dependence of proton peak intensities, event fluences, and radiation dose equivalents of 27-31 May 2003 SEP events at eight different locations between 1 and 4.91 AU at energies between ˜1.5 MeV and ˜130 MeV. We have modeled onset times and intensity profiles of the SEP events at Mars and Ulysses and found very good agreement at different energies. We report observations of energetic particles at locations with magnetic field line footprints that are separated by ˜90° in heliolongitude, possibly indicating very large coronal mass ejection sizes and/or high cross-field diffusion at large radial distances. Our results show that radial dependencies of proton peak intensities exhibit a broken power law between 1 to 2.5 AU and 2.5 to 4.91 AU, ranging between R-2.52 ± 0.42 and R-5.97 ± 0.32 for 25 MeV and between R-2.13 ± 0.36 and R-5.21 ± 0.29 for 52 MeV, where R is the radial distance from the Sun in units of AU. Event fluences exhibit a similar behavior but with a harder spectra. Radiation dose calculations show that these events did not pose a short-term radiation hazard to humans in the IP space.

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