X-ray emission generated through solar-wind charge exchange (SWCX) is known to contaminate X-ray observation data, the amount of which is often significant or even dominant, particularly in the soft X-ray band, when the main target is comparatively weak diffuse sources, depending on the space weather during the observation. In particular, SWCX events caused by interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) tend to be spectrally rich and to provide critical information about the metal abundance in the ICME plasma. We analyzed the SN1006 background data observed with Suzaku on 2005 September 11 shortly after an X6-class solar flare, signatures of which were separately detected together with an associated ICME. We found that the data include emission lines from a variety of highly ionized ions generated through SWCX. The relative abundances of the detected ions were found to be consistent with those in past ICME-driven SWCX events. Thus, we conclude that this event was ICME-driven. In addition, we detected a sulfur XVI line for the first time as one from the SWCX emission, the fact of which suggests that it is the most spectrally-rich SWCX event ever observed. We suggest that observations of ICME-driven SWCX events can provide a unique probe to study the population of highly-ionized ions in the plasma, which is difficult to measure in currently-available in-situ observations.
We report on the first detection of nonthermal radio emission associated with a polar coronal mass ejection. We call the radio emission as diffuse interplanetary radio emission (DIRE), which occurs in the decameter-hectometric wavelengths. The radio emission originates from the shock flanks that interact with nearby streamers.
In situ measurements of interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) composition, including elemental abundances and charge states of heavy ions, open a new avenue to study coronal mass ejections (CMEs) besides remote-sensing observations. The ratios between different elemental abundances can diagnose the plasma origin of CMEs (e.g., from the corona or chromosphere/photosphere) due to the first ionization potential (FIP) effect, which means elements with different FIP get fractionated between the photosphere and corona. The ratios between different charge states of a specific element can provid…
Despite helium abundance (AHe = nH/nHe) is ~ 8 % at the solar photospheric/chromospheric heights, AHe can be found to exceed 8% in interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) on many occasions. Although various factors like interplanetary shocks, chromospheric evaporation and "sludge removal" have been separately invoked in the past to address the AHe enhancements in ICMEs, none of these processes could explain the variability of AHe in ICMEs comprehensively. Based on extensive analysis of 275 ICME events, we show that there is a solar activity variation of ICME averaged AHe values. The inve…
Suzaku detected an enhancement of soft X-ray background associated with solar eruptions on 2013 April 14-15. The solar eruptions were accompanied by an M6.5 solar flare and a coronal mass ejection with magnetic flux ropes. The enhanced soft X-ray background showed a slight variation in half a day and then a clear one in a few hours. The former spectrum was composed of oxygen emission lines, while the later one was characterized by a series of emission lines from highly ionized carbon to silicon. The soft X-ray enhancement originated from geocoronal solar wind charge exchange. However, there ap…
Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) shocks are known to accelerate particles and contribute significantly to Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) events. We have performed Magnetohydrodynamic-Particle in Cell (MHD-PIC) simulations of ICME shocks to understand the acceleration mechanism. These shocks vary in Alfvénic Mach numbers as well as in magnetic field orientations (parallel \& quasi-perpendicular). We find that Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) plays a significant role in accelerating particles in a parallel ICME shock. In contrast, Shock Drift Acceleration (SDA) plays a pivotal role …
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause disturbances in the environment of the Earth when they arrive at the Earth. However, the prediction of the arrival of CMEs still remains a challenge. We have developed an interplanetary scintillation (IPS) estimation system based on a global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the inner heliosphere to predict the arrival time of CMEs. In this system, the initial speed of a CME is roughly derived from white light coronagraph observations. Then, the propagation of the CME is calculated by a global MHD simulation. The IPS response is estimated by the three-…
Interplanetary scintillation (IPS) is a useful tool for detecting coronal mass ejections (CMEs) throughout interplanetary space. Global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the heliosphere, which are usually used to predict the arrival and geo-effectiveness of CMEs, can be improved using IPS data. In this study, we demonstrate an MHD simulation that includes IPS data from multiple stations to improve CME modelling. The CMEs, which occurred on 09-10 September 2017, were observed over the period 10-12 September 2017 using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) and IPS array of the Institute for Spa…
We compare the magnetic helicity in the 17-18 March 2013 interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) flux-rope at 1 AU and in its solar counterpart. The progenitor coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted on 15 March 2013 from NOAA active region 11692 and associated with an M1.1 flare. We derive the source region reconnection flux using post-eruption arcade (PEA) method (Gopalswamy et al. 2017a) that uses the photospheric magnetogram and the area under the PEA. The geometrical properties of the near-Sun flux rope is obtained by forward-modeling of white-light CME observations. Combining the geometr…
We investigate the kinetic properties of a typical fast-mode shock inside an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) observed on 1998 August 6 at 1 AU, including particle distributions and wave analysis with the in situ measurements from Wind. Key results are obtained concerning the shock and the shock-ICME interaction at kinetic scales: (1) gyrating ions, which may provide energy dissipation at the shock in addition to wave-particle interactions, are observed around the shock ramp; (2) despite the enhanced proton temperature anisotropy of the shocked plasma, the low plasma beta inside the…
Interplanetary Propagation Behavior of the Fast Coronal Mass Ejection from 23 July 2012
2012年7月23日的快速日冕物质抛射（CME）引起了人们的关注，因为它从太阳到1个天文单位的过渡时间非常短，不到21小时。STEREO-A的现场数据显示，一个速度超过2200 km/s $^{-1}$的快速前进冲击波的到来，随后是一个以几乎1900 km/s $^{-1}$移动的磁结构。我们调查的CME冲击和磁结构的传播行为，目的是重现短的渡越时间和高的冲击速度，来自现场数据。我们仔细测量的三维运动学的CME使用的毕业圆柱壳模型，并获得最大速度为2580 $\pm$ 280 km s $^{-1}$的CME冲击和2270 $\pm$ 420 km s $^{-1}$的磁结构。基于3D运动学的基于拖曳的模型（DBM）相当好地再现了观测数据。为了成功地模拟CME激波，我们发现环境气流速度的平均值应该接近于慢太阳风速度（450 km s $^{-1}$），并且在距离30 $R_{\odot}$处的初始激波速度不应该超过$\approx$ 2300 km s $^{-1}$，否则它将过早地到达STEREO-A。模型结果表明，一个非常低的气动阻力施加在冲击，小一个数量级相比，平均值。因此，日冕物质抛射在行星际空间几乎不减速，并保持其高的初始速度。只有当大质量日冕物质抛射所传播的周围太阳风的密度在1天文单位的距离上降低到$ρ_{\rm sw}$ =1-2 cm $^{-3}$时，才能再现低的…
Turbulent Properties of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Observed by Solar Orbiter in the Inner Heliosphere
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences（阿亚巴塔观测科学研究所）；Department of Applied Physics, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University（马哈特马·乔蒂巴·普勒罗希尔坎德大学应用物理系）；Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur（坎普尔印度理工学院物理系）；Indian Institute of Space Science and technology（印度空间科学与技术研究所）；Indian Institute of Astrophysics（印度天体物理研究所）；Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India, IISER Kolkata（印度空间科学卓越中心，加尔各答印度科学教育研究所）
Decades of studies have suggested several criteria to detect Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICME) in time series from in-situ spacecraft measurements. Among them the most common are an enhanced and smoothly rotating magnetic field, a low proton temperature and a low plasma beta. However, these features are not all observed for each ICME due to their strong variability. Visual detection is time-consuming and biased by the observer interpretation leading to non exhaustive, subjective and thus hardly reproducible catalogs. Using convolutional neural networks on sliding windows and peak de…
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions from the Sun into interplanetary space. Despite being major space weather drivers, our knowledge of the CME properties in the inner heliosphere remains constrained by the scarcity of observations at distances other than 1 au. Furthermore, most CMEs are observed in situ by single spacecraft, requiring numerical models to complement the sparse observations available. We aim to assess the ability of the linear force-free spheromak CME model in EUHFORIA to describe the radial evolution of interplanetary CMEs, yielding new context for observat…
In order to have a comprehensive view of the propagation and evolution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun to deep interplanetary space beyond 1 au, we carry out a kinematic analysis of 7 CMEs in solar cycle 23. The events are required to have coordinated coronagraph observations, interplanetary type II radio bursts, and multi-point in-situ measurements at the Earth and Ulysses. A graduated cylindrical shell model, an analytical model without free parameters and a magnetohydrodynamic model are used to derive CME kinematics near the Sun, to quantify the CME/shock propagation in the Su…
Predicting the large-scale eruptions from the solar corona and their propagation through interplanetary space remains an outstanding challenge in solar- and helio-physics research. In this article, we describe three dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the inner heliosphere leading up to and including the extreme interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) of 23 July 2012, developed using the code PLUTO. The simulations are driven using the output of coronal models for Carrington rotations 2125 and 2126 and, given the uncertainties in the initial conditions, are able to reproduce an …
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) have complex magnetic and density structures, which is the result of their interaction with the structured solar wind and with previous eruptions. ICMEs are revealed by in situ measurements and in the past five years, through remote-sensing observations by heliospheric imagers. However, to understand and analyze these observations often requires the use of numerical modeling. It is because no instruments can yet provide a simple view of ICMEs in two or three dimensions. Numerical simulations can be used to determine the origin of a complex ejecta o…
The polytropic process characterizes the thermodynamics of space plasma particle populations. The polytropic index, $γ$, is particularly important as it describes the thermodynamic behavior of the system by quantifying the changes in temperature as the system is compressed or expanded. Using Wind spacecraft plasma and magnetic field data during $01/1995 - 12/2018$, we investigate the thermodynamic evolution in 336 Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection (ICME) events. For each event, we derive the index $γ$ in the sheath and magnetic ejecta structures, along with the pre- and post- event regions.…
We use magnetic field measurements by the Juno spacecraft to catalog and investigate interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) beyond 1 AU. During its cruise phase, Juno spent about 5 years in the solar wind between 2011 September and 2016 June, providing measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) between 1 and 5.4 AU. Juno therefore presents the most recent opportunity for a statistical analysis of ICME properties beyond 1 AU since the Ulysses mission (1990-2009). Our catalog includes 80 such ICME events, 32 of which contain associated flux-rope-like structures. We find that …
We report the result of the first search for multipoint in situ and imaging observations of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) starting with the first Solar Orbiter (SolO) data in 2020 April - 2021 April. A data exploration analysis is performed including visualizations of the magnetic field and plasma observations made by the five spacecraft SolO, BepiColombo, Parker Solar Probe (PSP), Wind and STEREO-A, in connection with coronagraph and heliospheric imaging observations from STEREO-A/SECCHI and SOHO/LASCO. We identify ICME events that could be unambiguously followed with the STER…
In-situ measurements carried out by spacecraft in radial alignment are critical to advance our knowledge on the evolutionary behavior of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their magnetic structures during propagation through interplanetary space. Yet, the scarcity of radially aligned CME crossings restricts investigations on the evolution of CME magnetic structures to a few case studies, preventing a comprehensive understanding of CME complexity changes during propagation. In this paper, we perform numerical simulations of CMEs interacting with different solar wind streams using the linear forc…
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause various disturbances of the space environment; therefore, forecasting their arrival time is very important. However, forecasting accuracy is hindered by limited CME observations in interplanetary space. This study investigates the accuracy of CME arrival times at the Earth forecasted by three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations. In this system, CMEs are approximated as spheromaks with various initial speeds. Ten MHD simulations with different CME initial speed are tested, and the den…
We analyse the characteristics of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) during Solar Cycles 23 and 24. The present analysis is primarily based on the near-Earth ICME catalogue (Richardson and Cane, 2010). An important aspect of this study is to understand the near-Earth and geoeffective aspects of ICMEs in terms of their association (type II ICMEs) versus absence (non-type II ICMEs) of decameter-hectometer (DH) type II radio bursts, detected by Wind/WAVES and STEREOS/WAVES. Notably, DH type II radio bursts driven by a CME indicate powerful MHD shocks leaving the inner corona and enteri…
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) often consist of a shock wave, sheath region, and ejecta region. The ejecta regions are divided into two broad classes: magnetic clouds (MC) that exhibit the characteristics of magnetic flux ropes and non-magnetic clouds (NMC) that do not. As CMEs result from eruption of magnetic flux ropes, it is important to answer why NMCs do not have the flux rope features. One claims that NMCs lose their original flux rope features due to the interactions between ICMEs or ICMEs and other large scale structures during their transit in the heliosphere. The other…
We investigate the effects of the evolutionary processes in the internal magnetic structure of two interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) detected in situ between 2020 November 29 and December 1 by Parker Solar Probe (PSP). The sources of the ICMEs were observed remotely at the Sun in EUV and subsequently tracked to their coronal counterparts in white light. This period is of particular interest to the community since it has been identified as the first widespread solar energetic particle event of Solar Cycle 25. The distribution of various solar and heliospheric-dedicated spacecraft th…
Evidence of energy conversion in weakly collisional plasma during an interplanetary coronal mass ejection
National Institute for Astrophysics, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology（国家天体物理研究所，空间天体物理学与行星级学研究所）；Department of Physics, University of Mumbai（孟买大学物理系）；Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTP-CNR)（等离子体科学与技术研究所，意大利国家研究委员会）；Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata（印度空间科学卓越中心，印度科学教育与研究学院加尔各答分校）；Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), The University of Alabama in Huntsville（空间等离子体与大气学研究中心，阿拉巴马大学亨茨维尔分校）；Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG)（印度地磁研究所）
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) contain magnetic field and velocity fluctuations across a wide range of scales. These fluctuations may be interpreted as Alfvénic wave packets propagating parallel or anti-parallel to the background magnetic field, with the difference in power between counter-propagating fluxes quantified by the cross helicity. We have determined the cross helicity of inertial range fluctuations at $10^{-3}-10^{-2}$ Hz in 226 ICME flux ropes and 176 ICME sheaths observed by the Wind spacecraft at 1 au during 1995-2015. The flux ropes and sheaths had mean, normalise…
We present the first statistical analysis of complexity changes affecting the magnetic structure of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), with the aim of answering the questions: How frequently do ICMEs undergo magnetic complexity changes during propagation? What are the causes of such changes? Do the in situ properties of ICMEs differ depending on whether they exhibit complexity changes? We consider multi-spacecraft observations of 31 ICMEs by MESSENGER, Venus Express, ACE, and STEREO between 2008 and 2014 while radially aligned. By analyzing their magnetic properties at the inner an…
Many aspects of the three-dimensional (3-D) structure and evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) remain unexplained. Here, we investigate two main topics: (1) the coherence scale of magnetic fields inside ICMEs, and (2) the dynamic nature of ICME magnetic complexity. We simulate ICMEs interacting with different solar winds using the linear force-free spheromak model incorporated into the EUHFORIA model. We place a swarm of ~20000 spacecraft in the 3-D simulation domain and characterize ICME magnetic complexity and coherence at each spacecraft based on simulated time series.…
On the Role of Alfvenic Fluctuations as Mediators of Coherence within Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections: Investigation of Multi-Spacecraft Measurements at 1 au
We study interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) measured by probes at different heliocentric distances (0.3-1AU) to investigate the propagation of ICMEs in the inner heliosphere and determine how the generic features of ICMEs change with heliospheric distance. Using data from the MESSENGER, Venus Express and ACE spacecraft, we analyze with the superposed epoch technique the profiles of ICME substructures, namely the sheath and the magnetic ejecta. We determine that the median magnetic field magnitude in the sheath correlates well with ICME speeds at 1 AU and we use this proxy to order t…
Energetic Particle Acceleration and Transport: Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and Shocks
National Observatory of Athens, IAASARS（雅典国家天文台）；California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）；University of Arizona（亚利桑那大学）；Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University（普林斯顿大学天体物理科学系）；European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)（欧洲空间局（ESA），欧洲空间天文中心（ESAC））；Universidad de Alcalá, Space Research Group (SRG-UAH)（阿尔卡拉大学，空间研究小组（SRG-UAH））；The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学，应用物理实验室）；Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel（基尔大学实验与应用物理研究所）；National Key Laboratory of Deep Space Exploration/School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Technology and Science of China（中国科学技术大学深空探测全国重点实验室/地球与空间科学学院）；Institute of Physics, University of Graz（格拉茨大学物理研究所）；NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center（美国国家航空航天局戈达德太空飞行中心）；Los Alamos National Laboratory（洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室）；University of New Hampshire（新罕布什尔大学）；Southwest Research Institute（西南研究院）；CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学院比较行星学卓越创新中心，中国科学技术大学）
本综述利用多航天器多点多仪器观测，结合Solar Orbiter与Parker Solar Probe的近太阳高能粒子测量，研究行星际日冕物质抛射和激波对高能粒子加速与传输的作用，以解决相关未决问题。
Visualizing the Magnetic Structure in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections with ATHARV
Indian Institute of Science (IISc)（印度科学研究所）；Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)（阿里亚巴塔观测科学研究所）；Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University（马哈特玛·乔蒂巴·普尔罗希尔坎德大学）；Indian Institute of Technology Delhi（德里印度理工学院）；Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST)（印度空间科学与技术学院）；IISER Kolkata（加尔各答印度科学教育研究所）
Arrival time calculation for interplanetary coronal mass ejections with circular fronts and application to STEREO observations of the 2009 February 13 eruption
On the magnetic field evolution of interplanetary coronal mass ejections from 0.07 to 5.4 au
Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria（奥地利空间天气办公室，GeoSphere奥地利）；Institute of Physics, University of Graz（格拉茨大学物理研究所）；Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County（马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校戈达德行星日球物理学研究所）；Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center（NASA戈达德太空飞行中心日球物理学科学部）；Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center（NASA戈达德太空飞行中心社区协调建模中心）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院伦敦）
