Large Geomagnetic Storms Associated with Limb Halo Coronal Mass Ejections

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2009-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2776v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Advances in Geosciences 2009

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Solar cycle 23 witnessed the observation of hundreds of halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs), thanks to the high dynamic range and extended field of view of the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. More than two thirds of halo CMEs originating on the front side of the Sun have been found to be geoeffective (Dst =< -50 nT). The delay time between the onset of halo CMEs and the peak of ensuing geomagnetic storms has been found to depend on the solar source location (Gopalswamy et al., 2007). In particular, limb halo CMEs (source longitude > 45deg) have a 20% shorter delay time on the average. It was suggested that the geomagnetic storms due to limb halos must be due to the sheath portion of the interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs) so that the shorter delay time can be accounted for. We confirm this suggestion by examining the sheath and ejecta portions of ICMEs from Wind and ACE data that correspond to the limb halos. Detailed examination showed that three pairs of limb halos were interacting events. Geomagnetic storms following five limb halos were actually produced by other disk halos. The storms followed by four isolated limb halos and the ones associated with interacting limb halos, were all due to the sheath portions of ICMEs.

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