Transport in the Interplanetary Medium of Coronal Mass Ejections

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Dec 2007

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SH31A-0234

Physics

2101 Coronal Mass Ejections (7513), 7513 Coronal Mass Ejections (2101)

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large scale structures of plasma and magnetic field expelled from the Sun, generally observed with coronographs in white light,and which are ejected into the interplanetary medium with a wide range of speeds. Due to its interaction with the surrounding medium, the interplanetary remmants of CMEs (ICMEs) suffer possitive or negative acceleration depending on their initial speed. This process of acceleration can be understood as a momentum transference between the ICMEs and the ambient solar wind. In this work, we consider the motion of an ICME in the solar wind as the motion of two immiscible fluids. An analytical study of the role of the drag force in the process of momentum interchange is presented. By comparing the analytical results with observations we obtain a good estimation of the drag coefficient.

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