Some characteristics of the GLE on 10 September 2017

2018/06/01 by V. G. Kurt, A.G. Belov, Kurt, Viktoria +5
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #FOS: Physical sciences #Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1806.00226

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Abstract

We present a short overview of the event associated with the recent strong solar flare on 10 September 2017 (X 8.2) based on the available data both from satellite GOES-13 and from selected neutron monitors. The onset time of SPE/GLE at 1 AU was found between 16:06 and 16:08 UT. The GLE effect was anisotropic with a maximum increase of 6 %. The maximum energy of accelerated protons was about 6 GeV. We estimated the release time of sub-relativistic protons into open field lines as 15:53 to 15:55 UT.

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