Dynamics of Solar Energetic Particles in the Presence of a Shock Wave

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From the analysis of problem solutions on the solar energetic particle propagation in the presence of a plane shock wave described by the diffusion convective transport equation, the condition and manifestations for the influence of a shock wave on the SEP propagation in the solar wind have been determined. Solar energetic particles (SEP) in gradual events are generated by shock waves (see, for example, [1] and references there). The SEP generation region is limited, on the whole, by the solar corona. Proton fluxes of 470 MeV to 21 GeV energies, a maximum of which occur at a time when the shock in the atmosphere of the Sun reaches heights equal to 5 10 solar radii [2] indicate to it. It is also confirmed by the significant advancing of the occurrence time of maximum in the SEP intensity with kinetic energies more than 10 MeV relative to the shock front arrival moment to Earth's orbit. model calculations for the particles acceleration by the diffusive mechanism in conditions, typical for the solar corona, show that the time taken to pass the solar atmosphere by the shock is quite sufficient to form the particle spectrum corresponding to the SEP characteristics observed [3,4]. Lee and Ryan [5] investigated the problem of SEP gradual event generation, propagation and confirmed the close association between the diffusive acceleration mechanism and SEP events. The absence of depending of particle diffusion coefficients on the energy is a lack of this model. As an extension of preceding investigations, in this work the temporal dynamics of the particle spectrum in the presence of a plane shock for diffusion coefficients depending on the particle energy and also their change in time is studied. The SEP event from a moment of arising of a shock to a moment of it's arrival on the Earth's orbit can be divided on two stages: the first stage (duration is ˜ 1 hour) is a generation of SEP in the solar corona, the second stage (duration is ˜ 1 day) is a propagation in interplanetary space in the presence of a shock. Here we consider the second stage only which as believed to be began with the injection of the particle spectrum formed during the first stage.

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