The Radiation Environment Of The Inner Heliosphere PDF Download

"The Sun is the main source of all kind of solar energetic particles in the Solar System, electrons, protons and ions with energies from few keV to several GeV. These particles are released from the solar corona and spread through the interplanetary space, the heliosphere, influenced by the interplanetary magnetic field and arriving to the Earth and interacting with the terrestrial magnetosphere. The effects of SEP interactions with space-based devices, manned missions and the Earth atmosphere are encompassed by what is known as space weather. This thesis describes the work we performed on this field, that can be divided in three parts: i) observational studies of solar energetic particles carried out using data coming from space-based missions such as STEREO and Helios, as well as tools like SEPEM server; ii) the development of tools and particle instrument modelling in order to use of them with pre-existing models to be used in the simulation of solar events; iii) solar energetic particle event simulations making use of transport models, either adapting tools previously developed by our group, as SEPInversion, or creating new software capable of carrying out full inversions of events, that is, taking into account the angular response and the energetic response of the particle instrument. These tools developed during this work have allow us to study and characterise the radiation conditions in the inner heliosphere applying modelling techniques never used done before. We also explore some of the applications of these tools. We developed a study about the radial dependence of electron peak intensities and anisotropy, we simulate observations of EPD/EPT instrument on board Solar Orbiter using Helios data and finally we studied the expected cumulated fluence and the fluence spectra computed using SEPEM for Solar Orbiter mission. In conclusion, the obtained results as well as the developed tools will be very useful for the study and interpretation of the future scientific data coming from Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo." -- TDX.