HR: 1340h
AN: SH23A-0326    [Abstracts]
TI: Models for determining the geometrical properties of halo coronal mass ejections
AU: * Zhao, X
EM: xuepu@quake.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Liu, Y
EM: yliu@quake.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, 455 Via Palou, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AB: To this day, the prediction of space weather effects near the Earth suffer from a fundamental problem: the necessary condition for determining whether or not and when a part of the huge interplanetary counterpart (ICME) of frontside halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is able to hit the Earth and generate goemagnetic storms, i.e., the real angular width, the propagation direction and speed of the CMEs, cannot be measured directly because of the unfavorable geometry. To inverse these geometrical and kinematical properties we have recently developed a few geometrical models, such as the cone model, the ice cream cone model, and the spherical cone model. The inversing solution of the cone model for the 12 may 1997 halo CME has been used as an input to the ENLIL model (a 3D MHD solar wind code) and successfully predicted the ICME near the Earth (Zhao, Plukett & Liu, 2002; Odstrcil, Riley & Zhao, 2004). After briefly describing the geometrical models this presentation will discuss: 1. What kind of halo CMEs can be inversed? 2. How to select the geometrical models given a specific halo CME? 3. Whether or not the inversing solution is unique?
UR: http://sun.stanford.edu/~xuepu/zhao.html
DE: 2111 Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds
DE: 7513 Coronal mass ejections (2101)
DE: 7519 Flares
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005