A Numerical Study on the Evolution of CMEs and Shocks in the Interplanetary Medium

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Sep 2003

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SOLAR WIND TEN: Proceedings of the Tenth International Solar Wind Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 679, pp. 206-2

Physics

Particle Emission, Solar Wind, Planetary Bow Shocks, Interplanetary Shocks, Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind

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We studied the evolution in the solar wind of four CMEs detected by SOHO-LASCO which were associated with ICMEs and interplanetary (IP) shocks detected afterward by Wind at 1 AU. The study is based on a 1-D hydrodynamic single fluid model using the ZEUS code. These simple numerical simulations of CME like pulses illuminate several aspects of the heliocentric evolution of the ICME front and its associated IP shock and we were able to reproduce some characteristics of the IP shocks and ICMEs inferred from the two-point measurements from spacecraft. The simulation shows that ICMEs and IP shocks follow different evolutions in the interplanetary medium both having phases of about constant speed propagation followed by an exponential deceleration with heliocentric distance. IP shocks always propagate faster than their associated ICME drivers and the former began to decelerate well before the IP shock. The results indicate that, in general, although an IP shock is driven by its ICME in the inner heliosphere in most of the cases this is not true any more when they approach to 1 AU.

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