Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1765858 | Advances in Space Research | 2012 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
We have analyzed 101 CMEs, and their associated ICMEs and interplanetary (IP) shocks observed during the period 1997-2005. The main aim of the present work is to study the interplanetary characteristics of metric and DH type II associated CMEs such as, shock strength, IP shock speed, ICME speed, stand off distance and transit time. Among these 101 CMEs, 38 events show both metric and DH type II bursts characteristics. There are no metric and DH type II association for 52 events. While DH type II alone is found in 7 cases, metric type II alone is found in 4 events. It is found that the mean speeds of CMEs increase progressively from CMEs without type II events to CMEs associated with metric and DH type IIs as suggested by Gopalswamy et al. (2005). In addition, we found that the speeds of ICMEs and IP shocks progressively increase in the following order: events without metric and DH type IIs, events with metric alone, events with DH alone and events with both metric and DH type IIs. Similarly the Mach number is found to increase in the same order. While there is not much change in the stand-off distance among these cases, it is minimum (â¼18Â Râ) for CMEs with speed greater than 2200Â km/s. The above results confirm that more energetic CMEs can produce both metric and DH type IIs for which the interplanetary parameters such as mean values of ICME speed and IP shock speed and Mach number are found to be higher.
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Authors
A. Mujiber Rahman, S. Umapathy, A. Shanmugaraju, Y.-J. Moon,