Scientific Analysis within SEPServer – New Perspectives in Solar Energetic Particle Research: The Case Study of the 13 July 2005 Event

• Published in: Solar physics 2012-11, Vol.281 (1), p.333-352
• Main Authors: Malandraki, O. E., Agueda, N., Papaioannou, A., Klein, K.-L., Valtonen, E., Heber, B., Dröge, W., Aurass, H., Nindos, A., Vilmer, N., Sanahuja, B., Kouloumvakos, A., Braune, S., Preka-Papadema, P., Tziotziou, K., Hamadache, C., Kiener, J., Tatischeff, V., Riihonen, E., Kartavykh, Y., Rodríguez-Gasén, R., Vainio, R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acceleration; Astrophysics; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Atmospheric Sciences; Atoms & subatomic particles; Case studies; Communities; Energetic particles; Instrumentation; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Scientific method; Signatures; Simulation; Solar physics; Space exploration; Space Exploration and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics; Space weather; Spacecraft; The Sun 360
• ISSN: 0038-0938; 1573-093X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11207-012-0164-9

Solar energetic particle (SEP) events are a key ingredient of solar–terrestrial physics both for fundamental research and space weather applications. Multi-satellite observations are an important and incompletely exploited tool for studying the acceleration and the coronal and interplanetary propagation of the particles. While STEREO uses for this diagnostic two identical sets of instrumentation, there are many earlier observations carried out with different spacecraft. It is the aim of the SEPServer project to make these data and analysis tools available to a broad user community. The consortium will carry out data-driven analysis and simulation-based data analysis capable of deconvolving the effects of interplanetary transport and solar injection from SEP observations, and will compare the results with the electromagnetic signatures. The tools and results will be provided on the web server of the project in order to facilitate further analysis by the research community. This paper describes the data products and analysis strategies with one specific event, the case study of 13 July 2005. The release time of protons and electrons are derived using data-driven and simulation-based analyses, and compared with hard X-ray and radio signatures. The interconnection of the experimental and the simulation-based results are discussed in detail.