Energetic ($<$ 2 MeV) ion fluxes measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase
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| author | Chakrabarty, Dibyendu Dalal, Bijoy Vadawale, Santosh Sarkar, Aveek Goyal, Shiv Kumar Sebastian, Jacob Bhardwaj, Anil Janardhan, P. Shanmugam, M. Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar Sarda, Aaditya Sharma, Piyush Gupta, Aakash Kumar, Prashant Shah, Manan S. Bapat, Bhas Adhyaru, Pranav R Patel, Arpit R. Adalja, Hitesh Kumar Kumar, Abhishek Ladiya, Tinkal Kumar, Sushil Singh, Nishant Painkra, Deepak Kumar Verma, Abhishek J. Srivastava, Nandita Banerjee, Swaroop Subramanian, K. P. Dadhania, M. B. |
| author_facet | Chakrabarty, Dibyendu Dalal, Bijoy Vadawale, Santosh Sarkar, Aveek Goyal, Shiv Kumar Sebastian, Jacob Bhardwaj, Anil Janardhan, P. Shanmugam, M. Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar Sarda, Aaditya Sharma, Piyush Gupta, Aakash Kumar, Prashant Shah, Manan S. Bapat, Bhas Adhyaru, Pranav R Patel, Arpit R. Adalja, Hitesh Kumar Kumar, Abhishek Ladiya, Tinkal Kumar, Sushil Singh, Nishant Painkra, Deepak Kumar Verma, Abhishek J. Srivastava, Nandita Banerjee, Swaroop Subramanian, K. P. Dadhania, M. B. |
| contents | During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) was operated whenever the orbit was above 52000 km during 11 - 19 September 2023. This phase of operation provided measurements of energetic ions (with energies 0.1--2 MeV) in the magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and interplanetary medium. Three interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) hit the magnetosphere during this period. This provided opportunity to examine the relative roles of ICME-generated solar energetic particles (SEPs) and substorm generated energetic ions on the magnetosphere. We approach this objective by detailed spectral analyses of energetic ion fluxes measured by two units of ASPEX-STEPS. We identify three distinctly different conditions of the north-south component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF $B_z$ = 0, $>$ 0, and $<$ 0) and use the derived spectral indices to understand this relative role. By combining these with the simultaneous energetic ion flux variations from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) around the Sun-Earth first Lagrangian (L1) point and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) in the Earth's magnetosphere, we show that the polarity of IMF $B_z$ influences the energetic ion spectra in the magnetosphere by modulating the interplay of the ICME-generated SEP with the energetic particles generated inside the magnetosphere by substorms. Interestingly, ASPEX-STEPS observations also indicate towards directional anisotropy based on spectral indices. This suggests spatially inhomogeneous mixing of energetic ions coming from different source processes. |
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| spellingShingle | Energetic ($<$ 2 MeV) ion fluxes measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase Chakrabarty, Dibyendu Dalal, Bijoy Vadawale, Santosh Sarkar, Aveek Goyal, Shiv Kumar Sebastian, Jacob Bhardwaj, Anil Janardhan, P. Shanmugam, M. Tiwari, Neeraj Kumar Sarda, Aaditya Sharma, Piyush Gupta, Aakash Kumar, Prashant Shah, Manan S. Bapat, Bhas Adhyaru, Pranav R Patel, Arpit R. Adalja, Hitesh Kumar Kumar, Abhishek Ladiya, Tinkal Kumar, Sushil Singh, Nishant Painkra, Deepak Kumar Verma, Abhishek J. Srivastava, Nandita Banerjee, Swaroop Subramanian, K. P. Dadhania, M. B. Space Physics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics During its earth-bound phase of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft of India, the Supra-Thermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS) of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) was operated whenever the orbit was above 52000 km during 11 - 19 September 2023. This phase of operation provided measurements of energetic ions (with energies 0.1--2 MeV) in the magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and interplanetary medium. Three interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) hit the magnetosphere during this period. This provided opportunity to examine the relative roles of ICME-generated solar energetic particles (SEPs) and substorm generated energetic ions on the magnetosphere. We approach this objective by detailed spectral analyses of energetic ion fluxes measured by two units of ASPEX-STEPS. We identify three distinctly different conditions of the north-south component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF $B_z$ = 0, $>$ 0, and $<$ 0) and use the derived spectral indices to understand this relative role. By combining these with the simultaneous energetic ion flux variations from the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) around the Sun-Earth first Lagrangian (L1) point and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) in the Earth's magnetosphere, we show that the polarity of IMF $B_z$ influences the energetic ion spectra in the magnetosphere by modulating the interplay of the ICME-generated SEP with the energetic particles generated inside the magnetosphere by substorms. Interestingly, ASPEX-STEPS observations also indicate towards directional anisotropy based on spectral indices. This suggests spatially inhomogeneous mixing of energetic ions coming from different source processes. |
| title | Energetic ($<$ 2 MeV) ion fluxes measured by ASPEX-STEPS on board Aditya-L1 during its earth-bound phase |
| topic | Space Physics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21919 |