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Title: Multipoint remote and in situ observations of interplanetary coronal mass ejection structures during 2011 and associated geomagnetic storms
Authors: Mishra, Wageesh
Dave, Kunjal
Srivastava, N
Teriaca, L
Keywords: Sun: corona
Solar-terrestrial relations
Issue Date: Sep-2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Citation: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 506, No. 1, pp. 1186–1197
Abstract: We present multipoint remote and in situ observations of interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) structures during the year 2011. The selected ICMEs arrived at Earth on 2011 March 11 and 2011 August 6, and led to geomagnetic storms. Around the launch of these CMEs from the Sun, the coronagraphs onboard STEREO-Aand-B and SOHO enabled the CMEs to be imaged from three longitudinally separated viewpoints. We attempt to identify the in situ plasma and magnetic parameters of the ICME structures at multiple locations, for example at both STEREO spacecraft and also at the ACE/Wind spacecraft near the first Sun–Earth Lagrangian point (L1), to investigate the global configuration, interplanetary propagation, arrival times and geomagnetic response of the ICMEs. The near-Earth identified ICMEs of March 11 and August 6 formed as a result of the interaction of two successive CMEs observed in the inner corona on March 7 (for the March 11 ICME) and on August 3–4 (for the August 6 ICME). Our study suggests that the structures associated with interacting CMEs, possibly as a result of deflection or large sizes, may reach to even larger longitudinally separated locations in the heliosphere. Our multipoint in situ analysis shows that the characteristics of the same shock, propagating in a pre-conditioned medium, may be different at different longitudinal locations in the heliosphere. Similarly, multiple cuts through the same ejecta/complex ejecta, formed as a result of CME–CME interaction, are found to have inhomogeneous properties. The study highlights the difficulties in connecting the local observations of an ICME from a single in situ spacecraft to its global structures.
Description: Restricted Access
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/7846
ISSN: 1365-2966
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