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Evolution of Piled-up Compressions in Modeled Coronal Mass Ejection Sheaths and the Resulting Sheath Structures

  • Authors: Indrajit Das, Merav Opher, Rebekah Evans, Cristiane Loesch, and Tamas Gombosi

Das et al. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal 729 112.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Two-dimensional contour plots at Y = 0.4  R plane showing flux rope, shock, and sheath. Top row from left: (a) contours with θ B and (b) with r diff for GL at 30 minutes where, , B = total magnetic field, B N = magnetic field along . gives the radial direction away from the Sun, points toward solar rotation axis, and . We can see that θ B is a very useful tool to locate the flux rope (Evans et al. 2011); r diff = (solar wind density at 30 minutes) − (background solar wind density), showing only the "positive" part of the contour. Background solar wind density is the density of the solar wind before the CME was inserted. Bottom row from left: (c) contour with θ B and (d) with r diff for TD at 48 minutes. Following the white line shown in the plots, we collect and analyze the data in the plots to be followed.

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