HR: 0800h
AN: SH31A-0223    [Abstracts]
TI: How do CME-Shocks Look Like?: Study of Shock Geometry.
AU: * Ontiveros, V
EM: vontiver@gmu.edu
AF: George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MSN 5C3, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
AU: * Ontiveros, V
EM: vontiver@gmu.edu
AF: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, DF 04510, Mexico
AU: Vourlidas, A
EM: vourlidas@nrl.navy.mil
AF: Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave SW, Washington, DC 20375, United States
AB: We use raytracing software to simulate white light coronagraph images of common 3D shock-like geometries, i.e. spherical and bow-shock type. We obtain the density profiles for different projections, shock thickness, and background and upstream densities. The results are compared to density profiles obtained from analyzing LASCO coronagraph images of CMEs that are good candidates to drive a shock due to their high velocities (V>1500 km/s). This work is funded by the LWS TR&T program.
DE: 7509 Corona
DE: 7513 Coronal mass ejections (2101)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting