The SERPENTINE consortium is leading several research efforts into the behavior of interplanetary (IP) shock waves, driven by solar activity such as coronal mass ejections. IP shocks are natural particle accelerators and play a key role for energy conversion in…
Large and fast Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) can drive shock fronts that are known to be efficient accelerators of protons even up to distances of the Earth. However, the role of shocks in accelerating solar energetic electrons is still not…
An active region near the central meridian of the Sun ejected a very fast coronal mass ejection (CME) at about 15:28 UT on 28 October 2021. The CME plasma cloud had a speed of about 2000 km/s (more than 7…
The positions of the various members of our spacecraft fleet are constantly changing. When a new solar event happens, the first analysis step is to check these positions with respect to the location of solar activity. Are our observers at…
The Sun has been very quiet during the first months of 2021. The scientific activity in the SERPENTINE project has concentrated on analysing the first widespread solar energetic particle (SEP) event of the solar cycle 25, which commenced on November…
The 42-month SERPENTINE project started in the beginning of the year 2021. It will investigate the origin and properties of large and widespread solar energetic particle (SEP) events related to solar flares and coronal mass ejections, using observations from the…