One of the most dynamical interplanetary phenomena of solar terrestrial physics is definitely the passage of solar wind streams near the Earth environment. In this work, we have identified the two types of high-speed solar wind streams using the spacecraft data during high amplitude days. The behaviour of high-speed solar wind streams during high amplitude anisotropic wave trains is investigate...

[1] Galactic cosmic ray electrons and nuclei respond differently to solar modulation, with the differences directly related to the reversals of the solar magnetic field, which occur every 11 years. If the large-scale heliospheric magnetic field has certain types of structures, the charge sign of cosmic ray particles can affect their propagation. Careful study of the behavior of cosmic ray posit...

This work extends our previous two-dimensional self-consistent model of the cosmic rays interacting with the solar wind to include anomalous cosmic rays. As before, energetic particles are described kinetically using a Parker equation. The model includes diffusion, convection, and drift effects, as well as shock and compression acceleration and expansion cooling by nonuniform solar wind flow. A...

Relativistic Astrophysics generates a number of problems where plasma physics plays an essential role. The acceleration of cosmic rays, and of the nonthermal particle distributions present in astrophysical sources of synchrotron radiation, are famous and long standing examples. The acceleration, transport and termination of magnetized relativistic flows emerging from compact objects is an almos...

High-energy galactic cosmic rays'can penetrate to deep levels within Neptune's atmosphere to form a substantial ionospheric layer in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere of the planet. Because cosmic-ray modulation in the interplanetary medium creates an inverse relationship between cosmic-ray intensity and solar activity, the ionization rate in the lower atmosphere will vary with the I...

There is an increasing amount of evidence linking biological effects to solar and geomagnetic disturbances. A series of studies is published referring to the changes in human physiological responses at different levels of geomagnetic activity. In this study, the possible relation between the daily variations of cosmic ray intensity, measured by the Neutron Monitor at the Cosmic Ray Station of t...

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion detector designed to study the gamma-ray sky in the energy range 30 MeV to 300 GeV. Fermi has detected high-energy gamma rays from the quiet Sun produced by interactions of cosmic-ray nucleons with the solar surface, and cosmic-ray electrons with solar photons in the heliosphere. W...

We briefly discuss GLAST’s capabilities for observing high-energy radiation from various energetic phenomena in our solar system. These emissions include: bremsstrahlung, nuclear-line and pion-decay gamma-radiation, and neutrons from solar flares; bremsstrahlung and pion-decay gamma radiation from cosmic-ray interactions with the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth’s atmosphere; and inverse Compton ra...

The acceleration of electrons and charged nuclei to high energies is a phenomenon occuring at many astrophysical sites throughout the universe. In the heliosphere, processes in the solar corona associated with flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most energetic natural particle accelerators, sometimes accelerating electrons and ions to relativistic energies. The observation of these...