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Dependence of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Magnetic Properties on Their Solar Sources
  • Sanchita Pal,
  • Dibyendu Nandy
Sanchita Pal
Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India, IISER Kolkata

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Dibyendu Nandy
IISER Kolkata
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Abstract

Several studies suggest that magnetic reconnection plays an essential role to generate and accelerate most of the erupting coronal magnetic flux ropes such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). We explore the connection between magnetic properties (magnetic flux and helicity) of interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) flux-ropes (magnetic clouds [MCs]) and those of associated near-sun CME flux-ropes formed in situ by low corona magnetic reconnection. We identify the progenitor CMEs and their solar sources and derive the source region reconnection flux using the post-eruption arcade (PEA) method. Combining the reconnection flux and the geometrical properties of associated CMEs obtained by forward-modeling, we extract the magnetic properties of CME flux ropes at their source. To measure the magnetic properties of 1 AU ICME we use constant-α force-free cylindrical flux rope model fit to in situ observations and directly from the observed magnetic time series rotated to the cloud frame. We investigate whether a significant difference exists in magnetic properties of ICMEs if their solar source is composed of pre-existing flux-ropes (filaments). This study has significant implications in finding the role of reconnection in the formation of twisted flux ropes during a solar eruptive process that transport solar magnetic flux and helicity into interplanetary space.