Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections and the Corresponding Forbush Decreases: Modeling vs. Multi-Spacecraft Observations

Mateja Dumbović*, Bojan Vršnak, Jingnan Guo, Bernd Heber, Karin Dissauer, Fernando Carcaboso, Manuela Temmer, Astrid Veronig, Tatiana Podladchikova, Christian Möstl, Tanja Amerstorfer, Anamarija Kirin

*Korrespondierende/r Autor/-in für diese Arbeit

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Abstract

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 two-step FD is often regarded as a textbook example, which presumably owes its specific morphology to the fact that the measuring instrument passed through the ICME head on, encountering first the shock front (if developed), then the sheath, and finally the CME magnetic structure. The interaction of GCRs and the shock/sheath region, as well as the CME magnetic structure, occurs all the way from Sun to Earth, therefore, FDs are expected to reflect the evolutionary properties of CMEs and their sheaths. We apply modeling to different ICME regions in order to obtain a generic two-step FD profile, which qualitatively agrees with our current observation-based understanding of FDs. We next adapt the models for energy dependence to enable comparison with different GCR measurement instruments (as they measure in different particle energy ranges). We test these modeling efforts against a set of multi-spacecraft observations of the same event, using the Forbush decrease model for the expanding flux rope (ForbMod). We find a reasonable agreement of the ForbMod model for the GCR depression in the CME magnetic structure with multi-spacecraft measurements, indicating that modeled FDs reflect well the CME evolution.
Originalspracheenglisch
Aufsatznummer104
FachzeitschriftSolar Physics
Jahrgang295
Ausgabenummer7
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Juli 2020
Extern publiziertJa

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Astronomie und Astrophysik
  • Astronomie und Planetologie

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