Physics-Based Simulation of the 2013 April 11 Solar Energetic Particle Event

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Weihao, Sokolov, Igor V., Zhao, Lulu, Gombosi, Tamas I., Sachdeva, Nishtha, Chen, Xiaohang, Tóth, Gábor, Lario, David, Manchester IV, Ward B., Whitman, Kathryn, Cohen, Christina M. S., Bruno, Alessandro, Mays, M. Leila, Bain, Hazel M.
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author Liu, Weihao
Sokolov, Igor V.
Zhao, Lulu
Gombosi, Tamas I.
Sachdeva, Nishtha
Chen, Xiaohang
Tóth, Gábor
Lario, David
Manchester IV, Ward B.
Whitman, Kathryn
Cohen, Christina M. S.
Bruno, Alessandro
Mays, M. Leila
Bain, Hazel M.
author_facet Liu, Weihao
Sokolov, Igor V.
Zhao, Lulu
Gombosi, Tamas I.
Sachdeva, Nishtha
Chen, Xiaohang
Tóth, Gábor
Lario, David
Manchester IV, Ward B.
Whitman, Kathryn
Cohen, Christina M. S.
Bruno, Alessandro
Mays, M. Leila
Bain, Hazel M.
contents Solar energetic particles (SEPs) can pose hazardous radiation risks to both humans and spacecraft electronics in space. Numerical modeling based on first principles offers valuable insights into the underlying physics of SEPs and provides synthetic observables for SEPs at any time and location in the inner heliosphere. In this work, we present a numerical scheme, which conserves the number of particles based on integral relations for Poisson brackets \citep{sokolov2023high}, to solve the kinetic equation for particle acceleration and transport processes. We implement this scheme within the Space Weather Modeling Framework, developed at the University of Michigan. In addition, we develop a new shock-capturing tool to study the coronal mass ejection-driven shock originating from the low solar corona. These methodological advancements are applied to conduct a comprehensive study of a historical SEP event on April 11, 2013. Multi-spacecraft observations, including SOHO, SDO, GOES and ACE near Earth, and STEREO-A/B, are used for model--data comparison and validation. We show synthetic observables, including extreme ultraviolet and white-light images, proton time--intensity profiles, and energy spectra, and discuss their differences and probable explanations compared to observations. Our simulation results demonstrate the application of the Poisson bracket scheme with a particle solver to simulating a historical SEP event. We also show the capability of extracting the complex shock surface using our shock-capturing tool and understand how the complex shock surface affects the particle acceleration process.
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spellingShingle Physics-Based Simulation of the 2013 April 11 Solar Energetic Particle Event
Liu, Weihao
Sokolov, Igor V.
Zhao, Lulu
Gombosi, Tamas I.
Sachdeva, Nishtha
Chen, Xiaohang
Tóth, Gábor
Lario, David
Manchester IV, Ward B.
Whitman, Kathryn
Cohen, Christina M. S.
Bruno, Alessandro
Mays, M. Leila
Bain, Hazel M.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space Physics
Solar energetic particles (SEPs) can pose hazardous radiation risks to both humans and spacecraft electronics in space. Numerical modeling based on first principles offers valuable insights into the underlying physics of SEPs and provides synthetic observables for SEPs at any time and location in the inner heliosphere. In this work, we present a numerical scheme, which conserves the number of particles based on integral relations for Poisson brackets \citep{sokolov2023high}, to solve the kinetic equation for particle acceleration and transport processes. We implement this scheme within the Space Weather Modeling Framework, developed at the University of Michigan. In addition, we develop a new shock-capturing tool to study the coronal mass ejection-driven shock originating from the low solar corona. These methodological advancements are applied to conduct a comprehensive study of a historical SEP event on April 11, 2013. Multi-spacecraft observations, including SOHO, SDO, GOES and ACE near Earth, and STEREO-A/B, are used for model--data comparison and validation. We show synthetic observables, including extreme ultraviolet and white-light images, proton time--intensity profiles, and energy spectra, and discuss their differences and probable explanations compared to observations. Our simulation results demonstrate the application of the Poisson bracket scheme with a particle solver to simulating a historical SEP event. We also show the capability of extracting the complex shock surface using our shock-capturing tool and understand how the complex shock surface affects the particle acceleration process.
title Physics-Based Simulation of the 2013 April 11 Solar Energetic Particle Event
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07581