Open AccessResearchers discuss role of flares and shocks in solar energetic particle events
Author(s) -
Cliver Ed,
Klecker Berndt,
Kallenrode MayBritt,
Cane Hilary
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2002eo000084
Subject(s) - coronal mass ejection , solar flare , particle acceleration , physics , astrophysics , solar energetic particles , interplanetary spaceflight , flare , acceleration , astronomy , shock (circulatory) , solar wind , nuclear physics , plasma , medicine , classical mechanics
Sixty participants gathered at a workshop last 5–7 August in Lüneburg, Germany just prior to the 27th (Hamburg) International Cosmic Ray Conference to discuss the relative importance of flares and shocks as sources of solar energetic particle (SEP) events. In the current two‐class paradigm for SEP events [ Reames , 1999], the flare process accounts for acceleration in “impulsive” events, while Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)‐driven coronal and interplanetary shock acceleration dominates “gradual” events. (For more on SEP terminology see Cliver and Cane [2002].)