Comparison of Analytical Models of Propagation of CMEs and its Validation Using Type II Radio Bursts Observations

Abstract:

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptive events arising from the solar corona that are expelled into the interplanetary (IP) medium. The CMEs can be associated with interplanetary shocks and this associated with type II radio-burst emissions. Some of the CMEs carry a magnetic configuration that can generate geomagnetic storm, the main interest in space weather. It is therefore important to predict arrival times of CMEs that are potential to generate a geomagnetic storm. We used a number of hydrodynamic (viscous and inertial) drag force models to approximate the trajectory of a CME. We focus on obtaining proportionality constants to achieve good approximations to CME arrivals. We analized a set of fast CMEs by finding the appropiate drag coefficients that simultaneusly approximated: the in-situ arrivals of the events, their associated type II radio-burst and satellite observations of these phenomena. Our results suggest that quadratic and inertial drag are the dynamic agent that prevails for fast CMEs propagation. Our studies may contribute to future ‘space weather forescasting’ at the Earth.