Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2011
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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 730, Issue 1, article id. 46 (2011).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Interplanetary Medium, Magnetic Fields, Sun: Coronal Mass Ejections: Cmes, Sun: Flares, Sun: Particle Emission
Scientific paper
To obtain the mean free path of solar energetic particles (SEPs) for a solar event, one usually has to fit time profiles of both flux and anisotropy from spacecraft observations to numerical simulations of SEPs' transport processes. This method can be called a simulation method. But a reasonably good fitting needs a lot of simulations, which demand a large amount of calculation resources. Sometimes, it is necessary to find an easy way to obtain the mean free path of SEPs quickly, for example, in space weather practice. Recently, Shalchi et al. provided an approximate analytical formula of SEPs' anisotropy time profile as a function of particles' mean free path for impulsive events. In this paper, we determine SEPs' mean free path by fitting the anisotropy time profiles from Shalchi et al.'s analytical formula to spacecraft observations. This new method can be called an analytical method. In addition, we obtain SEPs' mean free path with the traditional simulation methods. Finally, we compare the mean free path obtained with the simulation method to that of the analytical method to show that the analytical method, with some minor modifications, can give us a good, quick approximation of SEPs' mean free path for impulsive events.
He H.-Q.
Qin Gan
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