Computer Science
Scientific paper
Nov 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010sunge...5....7g&link_type=abstract
Sun and Geosphere, vol.5, no. 1, p.7-16.
Computer Science
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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that appear to surround the occulting disk of the observing coronagraph are known as halo CMEs. Halos constitute a subset of energetic CMEs that have important heliospheric consequences. Here we describe an on-line catalog that contains all the halo CMEs that were identified in the images obtained by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) since 1996. Until the end of 2007, some 396 halo CMEs were recorded. For each halo CME, we identify the solar source (heliographic coordinates), the soft X-ray flare importance, and the flare onset time. From the sky-plane speed measurements and the solar source information we obtain the space speed of CMEs using a cone model. In addition to the description of the catalog (http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME_list/HALO/halo.html), we summarize the statistical properties of the halo CMEs. We confirm that halo CMEs are twice faster than ordinary CMEs and are associated with major flares on the average. We also compared the annual rate of halo CMEs with that obtained by automatic detection methods and found that most of these methods have difficulty in identifying full halo CMEs.
Gopalswamy Nat
Howard Russ A.
Makela Pertti
Michalek Gregory
Vourlidas Angelos
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