Magnetic clouds observed by STEREO
Abstract
We present the results from an attempt to merge in-situ magnetic cloud reconstruction techniques with white light heliospheric imager 3-D reconstruction techniques. This has been accomplished to serve two purposes: 1) to identify which features of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are most prominent in heliospheric imagers; 2) to set some standards from which scientific revelations about ICMEs may be achieved. We combine the magnetic cloud model of Romashets et al. (A&A, 2007) with the elliptical force-free solution (Vandas & Romashets, A&A, 2003) and the recently-developed Tappin-Howard (TH) model (Tappin & Howard, SSR, 2009) for heliospheric imager ICMEs. Along with an analysis of the kinematic evolution of the CME we compare the 3-D structures of each of the features in the heliospheric imagers with those of the magnetic cloud.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010AGUFMSH51C1693R
- Keywords:
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- 7513 SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY / Coronal mass ejections;
- 7524 SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY / Magnetic fields;
- 7924 SPACE WEATHER / Forecasting