Impacts of torus model on studies of geometrical relationships between interplanetary magnetic clouds and their solar origins

Autor: Ronald P. Lepping, Suk-Kyung Sung, Kyung-Suk Cho, Katsuhide Marubashi
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Earth, Planets and Space. 61:589-594
ISSN: 1880-5981
1343-8832
DOI: 10.1186/bf03352929
Popis: Our recent analysis of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs) showed that the orientations of MC axes determined by a model fitting with curvature of MCs taken into account (referred to as a torus model, hereafter) can be significantly different from those obtained from fittings with a straight cylinder model. Motivated by this finding, we re-examined geometrical relationships between magnetic field structures of MCs and their solar origins. This paper describes the results of the re-examination with special attention paid to two MC events, for which different orientations of MC axes were obtained from a torus model and a cylinder model. For both cases, it is shown that the torus models give the MC geometries of magnetic field structures in good agreement with those of coronal arcade structures which were formed in association with the launch of MCs along the magnetic field inversion lines. Summarizing the analysis results for 12 MCs investigated here, we conclude that: (1) the formation of coronal arcade structure is a good indication of MC formation; (2) MC geometries can be obtained that are consistent with the coronal arcades with respect to the axis orientation and the magnetic field structure including chirality, indicating that no significant direction changes occurred during the propagation of MCs through the interplanetary medium.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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