SEP origin project

Research collaboration and network


Project title:
The origin of solar energetic particles:
solar flares vs. coronal mass ejections

Work package 1: Data analysis of solar energetic particles

Task 1.1 Catalogue of SEP events from SOHO/ERNE instrument


Deliverable Product: Online SEP catalogue [Month 15]

This task is devoted to a new catalog of solar energetic protons from the SOHO/ERNE [https://srl.utu.fi/projects/erne/] instrument (Torsti et al. 1995 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995SoPh..162..505T]). For the purpose, we identified all proton enhancements based on data from the High Energy Detector (HED), separated into 10 energy channels over the range 14-131 MeV. The catalog covers solar cycle (SC) 23 (1996-2008) and SC24 (2009-2018). The catalog can be accessed via a dedicated web-page (also shown in Fig. 1): http://newserver.stil.bas.bg/SEPcatalog/

Fig. 2 Overview of the catalog description

Overview of the catalog description is given in Fig. 2.

Overview of the on-line table during SC23 is given in Fig. 3. Analogous table is available for SC24.

Fig. 1 The front page of "Catalogs of Solar Energetic Particles"


Fig. 3 Overview of the on-line table during SC23. Analogous table is available for SC24.


The full catalog release is planned for 2019.

First results from the catalog compilation and web-site development can be found in the following publications:

Miteva, R., Danov, D., On-line catalogs of solar energetic protons at SRTI-BAS, Ninth Workshop 'Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere', proceedings of the conference held 30 May-3 June, 2017 in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, Eds. K. Georgieva, B. Kirov and D. Danov, ISSN 2367-7570, 2017, p. 66-69 ]

Miteva, R., SOHO/ERNE proton event catalog: Description and first results, Space, Ecology, Safety - SES 2017, Thirteenth International Scientific conference "Space, Ecology, Safety - SES1027", held 2-4 November 2017 in Sofia, Bulgaria, Eds G. Mardirossian, Ts. Srebrova and G. Jelev, ISSN: 1313-3888, p. 52-56

Miteva, R.; Danov, D., SOHO/ERNE proton event catalog: Progress results under the SEP origin project, Tenth Workshop 'Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere', proceedings of the conference held 4-8 June, 2018 in Primorsko, Bulgaria, Eds. K. Georgieva, B. Kirov and D. Danov, ISSN 2367-7570, 2018, pp. 99-104

The project is supported by:
the National Science Fund of Bulgaria

with contract No. ДHTC/Russia 01/6 (23-Jun-2017)
the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Project No.17-52-18050