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Coronal mass ejections, interplanetary ejecta and geomagnetic storms

H. V. Cane

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

1Also at School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author
I. G. Richardson

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

2Also at Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College ParkSearch for more papers by this author
O. C. St. Cyr

Computational Physics, Inc., NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland

3Also at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.Search for more papers by this author
First published: 01 November 2000
Cited by: 115

Abstract

Studies using SOHO spacecraft data have demonstrated that frontside halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs) detected by the LASCO coronagraphs generally precede geomagnetic storms. Nonetheless, about three quarters of such CMEs do not result in even moderate geomagnetic activity. We study the relationship of all the ejecta (interplanetary CMEs) which passed Earth during 1996–1999 to coronagraph CMEs and geomagnetic activity. We reach the following conclusions: (1) Only about half of frontside halo CMEs encounter the Earth; (2) The geoeffectiveness of ejecta depends strongly on the southward magnetic field strength and, for the same southward field, is irrespective of whether or not the ejecta has a magnetic cloud structure; (3) Transit speeds of ejecta to Earth are only loosely correlated with CME speeds, one influence being the prevailing solar wind conditions between the Sun and Earth; (4) Ejecta may be detected at Earth even when there is no preceding halo CME observed by LASCO. Such ejecta are not particularly geoeffective.

Number of times cited: 115

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