Ilya Usoskin

Linking solar magnetism, extreme solar particle events and stellar superflares

The magnetic field of the Sun drives a wide range of eruptive phenomena, from small-scale nanoflares to large flares and coronal mass ejections. While direct observations of solar activity cover only the past few decades, indirect evidence indicates that the Sun can occasionally...

The first four ground-level enhancements in the 1940s: investigation, digitization and analysis of forgotten data

Intense solar eruptions occasionally accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs) and trigger ground-level enhancements (GLEs). Among the 77 known GLEs, the first four #1- 4, in the 1940s, took place before the advent of the standard neutron monitors (NMs) and were missing from th...

Can Solar Cyclic Variability Mimic Extreme Solar Particle (Miyake) Events in Radiocarbon?

Abstract Rapid, strong enhancements in C in the Earth's atmosphere, known as Miyake events, rarely occurred over the past millennia, pointing to major radiation storms affecting Earth. They are produced by extreme solar particle events (ESPEs) and are separated by an order‐of‐mag...