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- Title
Radial Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections Between MESSENGER, Venus Express, STEREO, and L1: Catalog and Analysis.
- Authors
Salman, T. M.; Winslow, R. M.; Lugaz, N.
- Abstract
Our knowledge of the properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in the inner heliosphere is constrained by the relative lack of plasma observations between the Sun and 1 AU. In this work, we present a comprehensive catalog of 47 CMEs measured in situ measurements by two or more radially aligned spacecraft (MESSENGER, Venus Express, STEREO, Wind/ACE). We estimate the CME impact speeds at Mercury and Venus using a drag‐based model and present an average propagation profile of CMEs (speed and deceleration/acceleration) in the inner heliosphere. We find that CME deceleration continues past Mercury's orbit but most of the deceleration occurs between the Sun and Mercury. We examine the exponential decrease of the maximum magnetic field strength in the CME with heliocentric distance using two approaches: a modified statistical method and analysis from individual conjunction events. Findings from both the approaches are on average consistent with previous studies but show significant event‐to‐event variability. We also find the expansion of the CME sheath to be well fit by a linear function. However, we observe the average sheath duration and its increase to be fairly independent of the initial CME speed, contradicting commonly held knowledge that slower CMEs drive larger sheaths. We also present an analysis of the 3 November 2011 CME observed in longitudinal conjunction between MESSENGER, Venus Express, and STEREO‐B focusing on the expansion of the CME and its correlation with the exponential falloff of the maximum magnetic field strength in the ejecta. Key Points: A comprehensive catalog of 47 CMEs observed in conjunction between radially aligned spacecraft in the inner heliosphereConjunction events reveal that the sheath duration expands nearly linearly but independently of the initial CME speedThe average decrease of the CME maximum magnetic field strength agrees with past results but individual events show significant deviations
- Subjects
CORONAL mass ejections; MAGNETIC flux density; MERCURY'S orbit; HELIOSPHERE; STATISTICS
- Publication
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 2020, Vol 125, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2169-9380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2019JA027084