The Origin of Solar Energetic Particle Events: Coronal Acceleration versus Shock Wave Acceleration

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Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001ssrv...95..215k&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, v. 95, Issue 1/2, p. 215-225 (2001).

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We review evidence that led to the view that acceleration at shock waves driven by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is responsible for large particle events detected at 1 AU. It appears that even if the CME bow shock acceleration is a possible model for the origin of rather low energy ions, it faces difficulties on account of the production of ions far above 1 MeV: (i) although shock waves have been demonstrated to accelerate ions to energies of some MeV nucl^-1 in the interplanetary medium, their ability to achieve relativistic energies in the solar environment is unproven; (ii) SEP events producing particle enhancements at energies >=100 MeV are also accompanied by flares; those accompanied only by fast CMEs have no proton signatures above 50 MeV. We emphasize detailed studies of individual high energy particle events which provide strong evidence that time-extended particle acceleration which occurs in the corona after the impulsive flare contributes to particle fluxes in space. It appears thus that the CME bow shock scenario has been overvalued and that long lasting coronal energy release processes have to be taken into account when searching for the origin of high energy SEP events.

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