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We have studied three Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) having clear signatures of magnetic cloud (MC) arrival at 1 AU and their associated solar sources during 2011 to 2013. Comparing the axial magnetic field strength (B0) of…

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The strength of the radial component of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), which is a measure of the Sun's total open flux, is observed to vary by roughly a factor of two over the 11 yr solar cycle. Several recent studies have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-16 Y. -M. Wang , N. R. Sheeley

Sheath regions of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are formed when the upstream solar wind is deflected and compressed due to the propagation and expansion of the ICME. Small-scale flux ropes found in the solar wind can thus be…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 J. Ruohotie , E. K. J. Kilpua , S. W. Good , M. Ala-Lahti

Characterizing the plasma state in the near-Sun environment is essential to constrain the mechanisms that heat and accelerate the solar wind. In this study, we use Parker Solar Probe (PSP) observations from Encounters 1 through 24 to…

We determine the 3D geometry and deprojected mass of 29 well-observed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs) using combined STEREO-SOHO white-light data. From the geometry parameters we calculate the…

The solar wind is a structured and complex system, in which the fields vary strongly over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. As an example, the turbulent activity in the wind affects the evolution in the heliosphere of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. E. Ruiz , S. Dasso , W. H. Matthaeus , J. M. Weygand

We investigate whether Alfv\'enic fluctuations (AFs) can affect the structure of magnetic ejecta (MEs) within interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). We study an ICME observed on 2001 December 29 at 1 au by ACE and Wind, at a total…

We find that the sheath regions between fast interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) and their preceding shocks are often characterized by plasma depletion and mirror wave structures, analogous to planetary magnetosheaths. A case…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Liu , J. D. Richardson , J. W. Belcher , J. C. Kasper , R. M. Skoug

Accurately predicting the z-component of the interplanetary magnetic field, particularly during the passage of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME), is a crucial objective for space weather predictions. Currently, only a handful…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Pete Riley , M. A. Reiss , C. Mostl

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale ejections of plasma and magnetic field from the solar corona, which propagate through interplanetary space at velocities of $\sim$100--2500~km~s$^{-1}$. Although plane-of-sky coronagraph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-09 Shane A. Maloney , Peter T. Gallagher

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Mingzhe Liu , Ying D. Liu , Zhongwei Yang , L. B. Wilson , Huidong Hu

One of the very common in situ signatures of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), as well as other interplanetary transients, are Forbush decreases (FDs), i.e. short-term reductions in the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) flux. A…

Magnetic Clouds (MCs) are a particular subset of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs), forming large scale magnetic flux ropes. In this work we analyze the evolution of a particular MC (observed on March 1998) using {\it in situ}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. S. Nakwacki , S. Dasso , P. Démoulin , C. H. Mandrini , A. M. Gulisano

Understanding the thermal and turbulence properties of interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) is essential for analyzing their evolution and interactions with the surrounding medium. This study explores these characteristics across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Soumyaranjan Khuntia , Wageesh Mishra

We investigated the behavior of the spectral slope of interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations at proton scales for selected high resolution time intervals from WIND and MESSENGER spacecraft at $1$ AU and $0.56$ AU, respectively. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Bruno , L. Trenchi , D. Telloni

Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995-2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than 20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Olga Khabarova , Georgy Zastenker

We study the evolution of turbulence in the solar wind by solving numerically the full 3D magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations embedded in a radial mean wind. The corresponding equations (expanding box model or EBM) have been considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yue Dong , Andrea Verdini , Roland Grappin

Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) observed by the MESSENGER (MES) and Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft have been catalogued and analysed. The ICMEs were identified by a relatively smooth rotation of the magnetic field direction…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 S. W. Good , R. J. Forsyth

The dynamic evolution of coronal mass ejection (CME) in interplanetary space generates highly turbulent, compressed, and heated shock-sheath. This region furnishes a unique environment to study the turbulent fluctuations at the small scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Anil Raghav , Zubair Shaikh , Omkar Dhamane , Kalpesh Ghag , Prathmesh Tari , Utsav Panchal

Fluctuations and structure across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales are frequently studied in the solar wind. The properties of the low-frequency fluctuations are of relevance to turbulent energy injection into the plasma and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiaming Wang , Francesco Pecora , Rohit Chhiber , Sohom Roy , William H. Matthaeus