Annales Geophysicae (Jan 2010)
On the 3-D reconstruction of Coronal Mass Ejections using coronagraph data
- M. Mierla,
- M. Mierla,
- B. Inhester,
- A. Antunes,
- Y. Boursier,
- Y. Boursier,
- J. P. Byrne,
- R. Colaninno,
- J. Davila,
- C. A. de Koning,
- P. T. Gallagher,
- S. Gissot,
- R. A. Howard,
- T. A. Howard,
- T. A. Howard,
- M. Kramar,
- P. Lamy,
- P. C. Liewer,
- S. Maloney,
- C. Marqué,
- R. T. J. McAteer,
- T. Moran,
- L. Rodriguez,
- N. Srivastava,
- O. C. St. Cyr,
- G. Stenborg,
- M. Temmer,
- A. Thernisien,
- A. Vourlidas,
- M. J. West,
- B. E. Wood,
- A. N. Zhukov,
- A. N. Zhukov
Affiliations
- M. Mierla
- Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- M. Mierla
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- B. Inhester
- Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
- A. Antunes
- Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA
- Y. Boursier
- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France
- Y. Boursier
- Signal Processing Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- J. P. Byrne
- Astrophysics Research Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- R. Colaninno
- George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
- J. Davila
- NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- C. A. de Koning
- CIRES-SWPC, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- P. T. Gallagher
- Astrophysics Research Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- S. Gissot
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- R. A. Howard
- Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA
- T. A. Howard
- Air Force Research Laboratory, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM 88349, USA
- T. A. Howard
- Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
- M. Kramar
- Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA
- P. Lamy
- Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Marseille, France
- P. C. Liewer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
- S. Maloney
- Astrophysics Research Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- C. Marqué
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- R. T. J. McAteer
- Astrophysics Research Group, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- T. Moran
- NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- L. Rodriguez
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- N. Srivastava
- Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, India
- O. C. St. Cyr
- NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA
- G. Stenborg
- Interferometrics, Inc., Herndon, USA
- M. Temmer
- Kanzelhöhe Observatory/IGAM, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- A. Thernisien
- Universities of Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
- A. Vourlidas
- Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA
- M. J. West
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- B. E. Wood
- Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA
- A. N. Zhukov
- Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence – SIDC, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- A. N. Zhukov
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-28-203-2010
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 28
pp. 203 – 215
Abstract
Coronal Mass ejections (CMEs) are enormous eruptions of magnetized plasma expelled from the Sun into the interplanetary space, over the course of hours to days. They can create major disturbances in the interplanetary medium and trigger severe magnetic storms when they collide with the Earth's magnetosphere. It is important to know their real speed, propagation direction and 3-D configuration in order to accurately predict their arrival time at the Earth. Using data from the SECCHI coronagraphs onboard the STEREO mission, which was launched in October 2006, we can infer the propagation direction and the 3-D structure of such events. In this review, we first describe different techniques that were used to model the 3-D configuration of CMEs in the coronagraph field of view (up to 15 R⊙). Then, we apply these techniques to different CMEs observed by various coronagraphs. A comparison of results obtained from the application of different reconstruction algorithms is presented and discussed.
