Tracking a CME from Cradle to Grave: A Multi-wavelength Analysis of the February 6-7, 1997 Event

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May 1997

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American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #28, #05.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.908

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The partially earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME) event of 1997 February 6-7 originated from the southwest quadrant of the sun. The CME accelerated from 170 km/s to about 830 km/s when it reached a distance of 25 solar radii. The CME was an arcade eruption followed by bright prominence core structures. The prominence core was tracked continuously from the solar surface to the interplanetary medium by combining data from the Nobeyama radioheliograph (microwaves), Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (He 10830 { Angstroms}), SOHO/EIT (EUV) and SOHO/LASCO (white light). The CME was accompanied by an arcade formation, fully observed by the YOHKOH/SXT (soft X-rays) and SOHO/EIT (EUV). The X-ray and EUV observations suggest that the reconnection proceeded from the northwest end to the southeast end of a filament channel. In the SOHO/EIT images, the the feet of the soft X-ray arcade were observed as EUV ribbons. The CME event also caused a medium sized geomagnetic storm: The hourly equatorial Dst values attained storm level during 18:00-19:00 UT on February 09. This means the disturbance took about 2.25 days to reach the Earth. The first signatures of an IP shock was a pressure jump in the WIND data around 13:00 UT on Feb 09, 1997 which lasted for about 14 hours, followed by flux rope signatures. This CME event confirms a number of ideas about CMEs: The three part structure (frontal bright arcade, dark cavity and prominence core), disappearing filament, elongated arcade formation, and terrestrial effects. We make use of the excellent data coverage from the solar surface to the Earth to address a number of issues regarding the origin and propagation of the geoeffective solar disturbances. We benefited from discussions at the first SOHO-Yohkoh Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop, held March 3-7, 1997, at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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