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Impacts of torus model on studies of geometrical relationships between interplanetary magnetic clouds and their solar origins
Earth, Planets and Space volume 61, pages 589–594 (2009)
Abstract
Our recent analysis of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs) showed that the orientations of MC axes determined by a model fitting with curvature of MCs taken into account (referred to as a torus model, hereafter) can be significantly different from those obtained from fittings with a straight cylinder model. Motivated by this finding, we re-examined geometrical relationships between magnetic field structures of MCs and their solar origins. This paper describes the results of the re-examination with special attention paid to two MC events, for which different orientations of MC axes were obtained from a torus model and a cylinder model. For both cases, it is shown that the torus models give the MC geometries of magnetic field structures in good agreement with those of coronal arcade structures which were formed in association with the launch of MCs along the magnetic field inversion lines. Summarizing the analysis results for 12 MCs investigated here, we conclude that: (1) the formation of coronal arcade structure is a good indication of MC formation; (2) MC geometries can be obtained that are consistent with the coronal arcades with respect to the axis orientation and the magnetic field structure including chirality, indicating that no significant direction changes occurred during the propagation of MCs through the interplanetary medium.
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Marubashi, K., Sung, SK., Cho, KS. et al. Impacts of torus model on studies of geometrical relationships between interplanetary magnetic clouds and their solar origins. Earth Planet Sp 61, 589–594 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352929
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