Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars
The magnetic orientation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is of great importance to understand their space weather effects. Although plenty of evidence suggests that CMEs can undergo significant rotation during the early phases of evolution in the solar corona, there are few reports that CMEs rotate...
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| author | Mengxuan Ma Liping Yang Fang Shen Chenglong Shen Yutian Chi Yuming Wang Yufen Zhou Man Zhang Daniel Heyner Uli Auster Ingo Richter Beatriz Sanchez-Cano |
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| description | The magnetic orientation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is of great importance to understand their space weather effects. Although plenty of evidence suggests that CMEs can undergo significant rotation during the early phases of evolution in the solar corona, there are few reports that CMEs rotate in the interplanetary space. In this work, we use multispacecraft observations and a numerical simulation starting from the lower corona close to the solar surface to understand the CME event on 2021 December 4, with an emphatic investigation of its rotation. This event is observed as a partial halo CME from the back side of the Sun by coronagraphs and reaches the BepiColombo spacecraft and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN/Tianwen-1 as a magnetic flux-rope-like structure. The simulation discloses that in the solar corona the CME is approximately a translational motion, while the interplanetary propagation process evidences a gradual change of axis orientation of the CME’s flux-rope-like structure. It is also found that the downside and the right flank of the CME moves with the fast solar wind, and the upside does in the slow-speed stream. The different parts of the CME with different speeds generate the nonidentical displacements of its magnetic structure, resulting in the rotation of the CME in the interplanetary space. Furthermore, at the right flank of the CME exists a corotating interaction region, which makes the orientation of the CME alter and also deviates from its route due to the CME. These results provide new insight into interpreting CMEs’ dynamics and structures during their traveling through the heliosphere. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-268023a8d8d34b8c88bf95b38a5104b52024-12-04T12:08:46ZengIOP PublishingThe Astrophysical Journal1538-43572024-01-01976218310.3847/1538-4357/ad8a5aInterplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to MarsMengxuan Ma0Liping Yang1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4716-2958Fang Shen2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4935-6679Chenglong Shen3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3577-5223Yutian Chi4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9315-4487Yuming Wang5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-3919Yufen Zhou6https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9356-1038Man Zhang7https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3000-2819Daniel Heyner8https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7894-8246Uli Auster9Ingo Richter10https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5324-4039Beatriz Sanchez-Cano11https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0277-3253SIGMA Weather Group, State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, National Space Science Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China ; lpyang@swl.ac.cn, fshen@swl.ac.cn; College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of ChinaSIGMA Weather Group, State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, National Space Science Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China ; lpyang@swl.ac.cn, fshen@swl.ac.cnSIGMA Weather Group, State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, National Space Science Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China ; lpyang@swl.ac.cn, fshen@swl.ac.cn; College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of ChinaDeep Space Exploration Laboratory/School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China; CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of ChinaInstitute of Deep Space Sciences , Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of ChinaDeep Space Exploration Laboratory/School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China; CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, University of Science and Technology of China , Hefei 230026, People’s Republic of China; Anhui Mengcheng Geophysics National Observation and Research Station, University of Science and Technology of China , Mengcheng, Anhui, People’s Republic of ChinaSIGMA Weather Group, State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, National Space Science Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China ; lpyang@swl.ac.cn, fshen@swl.ac.cnSIGMA Weather Group, State Key Laboratory for Space Weather, National Space Science Center , Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China ; lpyang@swl.ac.cn, fshen@swl.ac.cnInstitut fr Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universitt Braunschweig , Braunschweig, GermanyInstitut fr Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universitt Braunschweig , Braunschweig, GermanyInstitut fr Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universitt Braunschweig , Braunschweig, GermanySchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester , Leicester, UKThe magnetic orientation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is of great importance to understand their space weather effects. Although plenty of evidence suggests that CMEs can undergo significant rotation during the early phases of evolution in the solar corona, there are few reports that CMEs rotate in the interplanetary space. In this work, we use multispacecraft observations and a numerical simulation starting from the lower corona close to the solar surface to understand the CME event on 2021 December 4, with an emphatic investigation of its rotation. This event is observed as a partial halo CME from the back side of the Sun by coronagraphs and reaches the BepiColombo spacecraft and the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN/Tianwen-1 as a magnetic flux-rope-like structure. The simulation discloses that in the solar corona the CME is approximately a translational motion, while the interplanetary propagation process evidences a gradual change of axis orientation of the CME’s flux-rope-like structure. It is also found that the downside and the right flank of the CME moves with the fast solar wind, and the upside does in the slow-speed stream. The different parts of the CME with different speeds generate the nonidentical displacements of its magnetic structure, resulting in the rotation of the CME in the interplanetary space. Furthermore, at the right flank of the CME exists a corotating interaction region, which makes the orientation of the CME alter and also deviates from its route due to the CME. These results provide new insight into interpreting CMEs’ dynamics and structures during their traveling through the heliosphere.https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8a5aSolar coronal mass ejectionsSolar windMagnetohydrodynamical simulationsInterplanetary physics |
| spellingShingle | Mengxuan Ma Liping Yang Fang Shen Chenglong Shen Yutian Chi Yuming Wang Yufen Zhou Man Zhang Daniel Heyner Uli Auster Ingo Richter Beatriz Sanchez-Cano Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars The Astrophysical Journal Solar coronal mass ejections Solar wind Magnetohydrodynamical simulations Interplanetary physics |
| title | Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars |
| title_full | Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars |
| title_fullStr | Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars |
| title_short | Interplanetary Rotation of 2021 December 4 Coronal Mass Ejection on Its Journey to Mars |
| title_sort | interplanetary rotation of 2021 december 4 coronal mass ejection on its journey to mars |
| topic | Solar coronal mass ejections Solar wind Magnetohydrodynamical simulations Interplanetary physics |
| url | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8a5a |
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