Characteristics of SEPs during Solar Cycle 21-24

Abstract

The study of the solar energetic particle events (SEPs) and their association with solar flares and other activities are very crucial to understand the space weather. Keeping this in view, in this paper, we present the study of the SEPs (intensity equal to or greater than 10 pfu) during the solar cycle 21 to 24 (1976-2017) in > 10 MeV energy channels associated with solar flares. For our analysis, we have used the data from different instruments onboard SOHO satellite. We have examined the flare size, source location, CMEs characteristics of associated SEPs. About 31% and 69% of the SEPs were originated from the eastern and western solar hemisphere respectively. The average CME speed and width were 1238 km/s and 253 deg respectively. About 58 % SEPs were associated with halo CMEs and 42% of SEPs associated with CMEs width varying from 10 deg to 250 deg respectively.

arXiv comment17 pages, 6 figures (accepted for the publication in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy)

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