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most citedMagnetic reconnection-driven energization of protons up to 400 keV at the near-Sun heliospheric current sheet

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physics.space-ph2026★ 1 cited

Delayed maximum energy solar energetic particle events: Statistical analysis from Solar Orbiter

R. C. Allen, G. C. Ho, G. M. Mason +9

Investigations of solar energetic particles (SEPs) have long utilized the dispersive nature of onset times, as in, the earlier arrival of higher-energy particles compared to lower-…

astro-ph.SR2026

Wave-Growth-Limited Particle Confinement in a Near-Parallel Interplanetary Shock Observed by Parker Solar Probe

A. Kouloumvakos, I. C. Jebaraj, M. A. Malkov +11

Collisionless shocks confine the particles they accelerate with the upstream wave field they themselves drive. Streaming particles resonantly amplify Alfvén waves, and the waves th…

astro-ph.SR2026

Shock properties for solar energetic particle events with signatures of inverse velocity arrival

A. Kouloumvakos, D. Lario, G. M. Mason +20

We present a detailed investigation of the shock properties associated with solar energetic particle (SEP) events that exhibit a concave (``nose-like'') shape in their energy spect…

astro-ph.SR2026

Parker Solar Probe observations of solar energetic particle (SEP) events with inverse velocity arrival (IVA) features

Zigong Xu, C. M. S. Cohen, R. A. Leske +21

In SEP events, velocity dispersion (VD) is characterized by the earlier arrival of faster, higher-energy particles relative to slower ones, assuming negligible acceleration time an…

astro-ph.SR2025

Energy-dependent SEP Fe/O abundances during the May 2024 superstorm

G. D. Muro, C. M. S. Cohen, Z. Xu +16

During mid-May 2024, active region (AR) 13664 produced a series of M- and X-class flares along with several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that resulted in exceptionally strong auro…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Radial dependence of ion fluences in the 2023 July 17 SEP event from Parker Solar Probe to STEREO and ACE

G. D. Muro, C. M. S Cohen, Z. Xu +18

In the latter moments of 17 July 2023, the solar active region 13363, near the southwestern face of the Sun, was undergoing considerable evolution, which resulted in a significant…

astro-ph.SR2025

Comparing Methods for Calculating Solar Energetic Particle Intensities: Re-binning versus Spectral Binning

M. E. Cuesta, L. Y. Khoo, G. Livadiotis +13

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events have been observed for decades in the interplanetary medium by spacecraft measuring the intensity of energetic ions and electrons. These inten…

astro-ph.EP2024

Diverse dust populations in the near-Sun environment characterized by PSP/ISIS

M. M. Shen, J. R. Szalay, P. Pokorný +9

The Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (ISIS) energetic particle instrument suite on Parker Solar Probe is dedicated to measuring energetic ions and electrons in th…

astro-ph.SR2024

Composition variation of the May 16 2023 Solar Energetic Particle Event observed by Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

Z. G. Xu, C. M. S Cohen, R. A. Leske +13

In this study, we employ the combined charged particle measurements from Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun (\ISOIS) onboard the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Energetic Par…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 11 cited

Magnetic reconnection-driven energization of protons up to 400 keV at the near-Sun heliospheric current sheet

M. I. Desai, J. F. Drake, T. Phan +22

We report observations of direct evidence of energetic protons being accelerated above ~400 keV within the reconnection exhaust of a heliospheric current sheet (HCS) crossing by NA…

astro-ph.SR2024

Observations of Kappa Distributions in Solar Energetic Protons and Derived Thermodynamic Properties

M. E. Cuesta, A. T. Cummings, G. Livadiotis +13

In this paper we model the high-energy tail of observed solar energetic proton energy distributions with a kappa distribution function. We employ a technique for deriving the therm…

astro-ph.SR2024

Kappa-tail technique: Modeling and application to Solar Energetic Particles observed by Parker Solar Probe

G. Livadiotis, A. T. Cummings, M. E. Cuesta +10

We develop the kappa-tail fitting technique, which analyzes observations of power-law tails of distributions and energy-flux spectra and connects them to theoretical modeling of ka…