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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 787, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/2/119
Keywords
solar; terrestrial relations; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: heliosphere
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Funding
- Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P26174-N27, V195-N16]
- European Union [263252 [COMESEP], 284461 [eHEROES], 606692 [HELCATS]]
- STEREO grant [NAS5-03131]
- NASA [NNX13AP39G]
- NASA STEREO grant
- [AGS-1239704]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P26174] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1239704] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [V 195, P 26174] Funding Source: researchfish
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Forecasting the in situ properties of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from remote images is expected to strongly enhance predictions of space weather and is of general interest for studying the interaction of CMEs with planetary environments. We study the feasibility of using a single heliospheric imager (HI) instrument, imaging the solar wind density from the Sun to 1 AU, for connecting remote images to in situ observations of CMEs. We compare the predictions of speed and arrival time for 22 CMEs (in 2008-2012) to the corresponding interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) parameters at in situ observatories (STEREO PLASTIC/IMPACT, Wind SWE/MFI). The list consists of front-and backsided, slow and fast CMEs (up to 2700 km s(-1)). We track the CMEs to 34.9 +/- 7.1 deg elongation from the Sun with J maps constructed using the SATPLOT tool, resulting in prediction lead times of - 26.4 +/- 15.3 hr. The geometrical models we use assume different CME front shapes (fixed-Phi, harmonic mean, self-similar expansion) and constant CME speed and direction. We find no significant superiority in the predictive capability of any of the three methods. The absolute difference between predicted and observed ICME arrival times is 8.1 +/- 6.3 hr (rms value of 10.9 hr). Speeds are consistent to within 284 +/- 288 km s(-1) . Empirical corrections to the predictions enhance their performance for the arrival times to 6.1 +/- 5.0 hr (rms value of 7.9 hr), and for the speeds to 53 +/- 50 km s(-1). These results are important for Solar Orbiter and a space weather mission positioned away from the Sun-Earth line.
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