Quantitative Analysis of CME Deflections in the Corona

Details Quantitative Analysis of CME Deflections in the Corona Quantitative Analysis of CME Deflections in the Corona

2011-05-11

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3382v1

Bin Gui, Chenglong Shen, Yuming Wang, Pinzhong Ye, Jiajia Liu, Shui Wang, and Xuepu Zhao (2011), Quantitative Analysis of CME

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

19 pages, 20 figures

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11207-011-9791-9

In this paper, ten CME events viewed by the STEREO twin spacecraft are analyzed to study the deflections of CMEs during their propagation in the corona. Based on the three-dimensional information of the CMEs derived by the graduated cylindrical shell (GCS) model [Thernisien et al., 2006], it is found that the propagation directions of eight CMEs had changed. By applying the theoretical method proposed by Shen et al. [2011] to all the CMEs, we found that the deflections are consistent, in strength and direction, with the gradient of the magnetic energy density. There is a positive correlation between the deflection rate and the strength of the magnetic energy density gradient and a weak anti-correlation between the deflection rate and the CME speed. Our results suggest that the deflections of CMEs are mainly controlled by the background magnetic field and can be quantitatively described by the magnetic energy density gradient (MEDG) model.

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