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and FastMoving ICMEs Kristoff Paulson David Taylor Charles Smith Bernie Vasquez a nd Qiang Hu Paulson et al Space Weather submitted 2012 We can obtain the peak ICME speed within 12 hrs of the shock passage This reaches deep within the ICME typically There is conside ID: 400962

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Slow-Moving ShocksandFast-Moving ICMEs

Kristoff Paulson, David Taylor,Charles Smith, Bernie Vasquezand Qiang Hu

Paulson et al.,

Space Weather

, submitted (2012).Slide2
Slide3
Slide4

We can obtain the peak ICME speed within 12 hrs of the shock passage. This reaches deep within the ICME (typically). There is considerable disagreement with the computed shock speed in the spacecraft frame.

We compute the shock normal direction.The two speeds are rectified according to:Vshock

= V

ICME

cos(

BR

)

We can reverse this relation!!!Slide5

Lag Times

Lag time TL is the time between shock crossing and arrival of peak ICME speed.Note the considerable range in values from a few to 10 hours with some as long as 15 hrs.At present we have no predictive ability for forecasting the arrival time of the peak ICME speed.Slide6

Automated Shocks for Space Weather

We have developed an automated shock solution code that finds shocks in the ACE RTSW data and solves the R-H equations for jump conditions and shock speed and normal.See ACE Science CenterThe problem is that weak shocks are very hard to find and discriminate from normal background fluctuations.Any ideas?We don’t want to “cry wolf” too often!

Vorotnikov et al.,

Space Weather

,

6

, S03002, 2008.

Vorotnikov et al.,

Space Weather

,

9

, S04001, 2011.Slide7

Summary and ProblemWeak, slow-moving shocks are often the harbinger of fast-moving ejecta to follow.

We can predict that speed in real time.ACE is presently running a fully automated, real-time shock code finding shock candidates and performing a R-H analysis.Gives us shock speed, compression, and normal.Our only indication of a real shock is a statistically significant jump in parameters.Weak shocks still have large uncertainties.

Weak shocks are the hardest to capture and analyze.