ICME Identification from Solar Wind Ion Measurements

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Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmsh21a0473s&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SH21A-0473

Physics

2111 Ejecta, Driver Gases, And Magnetic Clouds

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In the solar corona, coronal mass ejections are generally identified as an outward moving density enhancement. At 1AU their interplanetary counterparts are generally identified as a twisted and enhanced magnetic structures lasting of the order of a day. In an effort to better classify ICMEs we attempt herein to identify their start and stop time by their signatures in ion data obtained by Wind and ACE solar wind instruments. We search for periods in which the solar wind speed is linearly decreasing and the ion temperature is cool, with a thermal speed of less than 20 km/s. We required a simultaneous enhanced magnetic field but required no special signature of this enhancement. We compared these identifications with those made by D. Larson and R. P. Lepping and published on the web. Of 14 events, 4 were not identified as ICMEs by either Larson or Lepping. Similarly they identified many events that we did not, often because the ion temperature was above our classification threshold, but also because there was no clear speed decrease as the event crossed the spacecraft as would signal an expanding structure. The best events in Larson and Lepping's list had a rate of speed decrease that, if due to the expansion of the structure with distance from the sun moving at the average observed speed, would bring the structure from zero width to the present size in its calculated transit time. We conclude that cold ion temperatures and a declining solar wind velocity are frequent ICME signatures but are neither necessary nor sufficient for ICME identification.

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