It is well known, that the Sun as central star of our solar system gravitationally controls the orbits of planets and minor bodies. Much less known is the domain of plasma, fields and charged particles, however, in which the Sun with a radius of less than 0.7 Million km governs the heliosphere out to about 15 Billion km, an area about 2000 times bigger in radius or nearly 1010 times bigger in volume. What forces activates the Sun to maintain this power? Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants are the troops serving the Sun during high solar activity periods. This volume offers a comprehensive and integrated overview of our present knowledge and understanding of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and their descendants, Interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs). It results from a series of workshops held between 2000 and 2004. An international team of about sixty experimenters involved e.g. in the SOHO, ULYSSES, VOYAGER, PIONEER, HELIOS, WIND, IMP, and ACE missions, ground observers, and theoreticians worked jointly on interpreting the observations and developing new models for CME initiations, development, and interplanetary propagation. The book is intended to provide scientists active in space physics research a with an up-to-date status of the current understanding of CMEs and ICMEs and their effects in the heliosphere, and also to serve the advanced graduate student with introductory material on this active field of research.
Author(s): H. Kunow
Series: Space Sciences Series of ISSI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 486
Table of Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
A Brief History of CME Science......Page 10
Coronal Mass Ejections: Overview of Observations......Page 19
In-Situ Solar Wind and Magnetic Field Signatures of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections......Page 37
An Introduction to CMEs and Energetic Particles......Page 50
An Introduction to Theory and Models of CMEs, Shocks, and Solar Energetic Particles......Page 62
An Introduction to the Pre-CME Corona......Page 86
Solar Imprint on ICMEs, their Magnetic Connectivity, and Heliospheric Evolution......Page 98
ICMEs in the Outer Heliosphere and at High Latitudes: An Introduction......Page 115
Coronal Observations of CMEs: Report of Working Group A......Page 131
Understanding Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Signatures: Report of Working Group B......Page 181
Energetic Particle Observations: Report of Working Group C......Page 221
Theory and Models: Report of Working Group D......Page 255
The Pre-CME Sun: Report of Working Group E......Page 307
Multi-Wavelength Observations of CMEs and Associated Phenomena: Report of Working Group F......Page 344
ICMEs in the Inner Heliosphere: Origin, Evolution and Propagation Effects: Report of Working Group G......Page 386
ICMEs at High Latitudes and in the Outer Heliosphere: Report of Working Group H......Page 420
CME Disturbance Forecasting......Page 455
Coronal Mass Ejections:APersonal Workshop Summary......Page 473
D......Page 483
I......Page 484
S......Page 485
T......Page 486
