Dependence of large SEP events with different energies on the associated flares and CMEs

作     者：Gui-Ming Le Xue-Feng Zhang 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Space WeatherNational Center for Space WeatherChina Meteorological Administration School of Computer ScienceAnhui University of Technology 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2017年第17卷第12期

页      面：41-52页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program,Grants 2012CB957801 and 2014CB744203) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.41074132,41274193,41474166,41304144,11303017 and 11533005) the National Standard Research Program (Grant 200710123) 

主　　题：Sun:coronal mass ejections(CMEs) Sun:flares (Sun:)particle emission 

摘      要：To investigate the dependence of large gradual solar energetic particle（SEP） events on the associated flares and coronal mass ejections（CMEs）, the correlation coefficients（CCs） between peak intensities of E 〉 10 MeV（I10）, E 〉 30 MeV（I30） and E 〉 50 MeV（I50） protons and soft X-ray（SXR） emission of associated flares and the speeds of associated CMEs in the three longitudinal areas W0–W39, W40–W70（hereafter the well connected region） and W71–W90 have been *** correlation analysis shows that CCs between SXR emission and peak intensities of SEP events always reach their largest value in the well connected region and then decline dramatically in the longitudinal area outside the well connected region, suggesting that they may contribute to the production of SEPs in large SEP events. Both classical and partial correlation analyses show that SXR fluence is a better parameter describing the relationship between flares and SEP events. For large SEP events with source location in the well connected region, the CCs between SXR fluence and I10, I30 and I50 are0.58±0.12, 0.80±0.06 and 0.83±0.06 respectively, while the CCs between CME speed and I10, I30 and I50 are 0.56±0.12, 0.52±0.13 and 0.48±0.13 respectively. The partial correlation analyses show that in the well connected region, both CME shock and SXR fluence can significantly affect I10, but SXR peak flux makes no additional contribution. For E 〉 30 MeV protons with source location in the well connected region, only SXR fluence can significantly affect I30, and the CME shock makes a small contribution to I30, but SXR peak flux makes no additional contribution. For E 〉 50 MeV protons with source location in the well connected region, only SXR fluence can significantly affect I50, but both CME shock and SXR peak flux make no additional contribution. We conclude that these findings provide statistical evidence that for SEP events with source locations in the well connected region, a CME shock is only an effect