Investigations of CME in muon flux detected in hodoscopic mode The International Conference on Particle Physics and Astrophysics ICPPA - 2016 MEPhI, Hotel Milan, 11 October 2016 Investigations of CME in muon flux detected in hodoscopic mode I.I. Astapov1, N.S. Barbashina1, V.V. Borog1, I.S. Veselovsky1,2,3, N.V. Osetrova1, A.A. Petrukhin1, V.V. Shutenko1 1 MEPhI; 2 SINP MSU; 3 IKI RAS http://ununevod.mephi.ru/ http://nevod.mephi.ru/ http://vk.com/nevod.mephi https://www.facebook.com/nevod.mephi Moscow, 2016
Muon hodoscope URAGAN URAGAN (55.7°N, 37.7°E, 173 m above sea level) is the coordinate detector that allows to investigate the variations of the muon flux angular distribution on the Earth’s surface. URAGAN consists of four independent supermodules (SM), total area ~46 m2. Each SM is assembled of 8 layers of gas-discharge chambers (streamer tubes) equipped with two-coordinate system of external readout strips which provides a high spatial and angular accuracy of muon track detection (correspondingly, 1 cm and 1°) in a wide range of zenith (0°-80°) and azimuthal (0°-360°) angles in the real time mode. Every minute, angular distribution of muons is recorded in a two-dimensional angular matrix, which represents a muonography of the upper hemisphere with one-minute exposure.
Experimental data To study the URAGAN integral counting rate, 10-min data summed over all modules and corrected for the barometric and temperature effects are used. Local anisotropy vector For the study of two-dimensional variations of muon flux registered by the URAGAN, a local anisotropy vector A is used. Local anisotropy vector indicates the average arrival direction of muons which is close to the vertical. To study its deviations from the mean value the relative anisotropy vector r and its horizontal projection rh are used:
Automatically generated by CACTus using LASCO C2/C3 observations. Coronal mass ejection CACTus CME list Automatically generated by CACTus using LASCO C2/C3 observations. Parameters: # t0: onset time, earliest indication of liftoff # dt0: duration of liftoff (hours) # pa: principal angle, counterclockwise from North (degrees) # da: angular width (degrees), # v: median velocity (km/s) # dv: variation (1 sigma) of velocity over the width of the CME # minv: lowest velocity detected within the CME # maxv: highest velocity detected within the CME # halo?: II if da>90, III if da>180, IV if da>270, indicating potential halo/partial halo CME During the peak of the solar cycle 2012-2015 – more then 100 CMEs/month During the minimum of the solar cycle 2008-2009 – about 10 – 30 CMEs/month http://sidc.oma.be/cactus/catalog.php
CMEs selection VCME > 500 km/s From 2008 to 2015 was 2237 CMEs with the velocity more than 500 km/s Dt0_CME - the difference between the start one of CME and the next CME If Dt0_CME < 24 hour, then the events are combined into a group
Summary data for calculating the speed and the start group time By number of CME in group to the event are divided into: Single CME Weak group (2 – 4 CME) Average group(5-10 CME) Powerful group (> 10 CME)
Example response
Results Powerful group Average group Weak group Single CMEs
The density distribution in interplanetary space iNTEGRATED SPACE WEATHER ANALYSIS SYSTEM (iSWA) http://iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ The density distribution in interplanetary space The velocity distribution in interplanetary space
Is this CME geoeffective? OMNI data: The time Δt during which the CME passes a distance of 2 a.u. was estimated for each event. Then, according to the OMNI data the average values of the magnetic field B, solar wind velocity V and Kp-index in the time interval t0+Δt (t0 – time of the CME beginning according to the CACTus (COR2 STEREO-A data) were calculated. The obtained values of <B> and <Vsw> considering their spread do not exceed the average values calculated for the period of observations of the interplanetary magnetic field and solar wind from 2005 to 2015. Kp – index did not exceed 4 for all events.
«Geoeffective» CME CACTus: LASCO: STEREO-B: 2014/09/10 18:48 V ~ 1100 км/s 2 а.u. ~ 3 days iSWA:
2014/09/10 OMNI data: URAGAN: AFD ~ 1.5 %:
«Non-geoeffective» CME CACTus: LASCO: STEREO 2015/03/10 3:36 V ~ 760 km/s 2 a.u. ~ 4,5 days iSWA:
2015/03/10 OMNI data: URAGAN:
No CME beginning t0 <VCME>, km/s Time of passage 2a.u., days <B>, nT sB, nT <Vsw>, km/s ssw, Kp GEO? Response rh URG FD,% 1 01.01.2014 18:24 1135 3.1 6.26 2.24 561 31 4 GEO + 1.2 2 12.02.2014 5:48 287 12.1 7.19 3.10 378 38 1.5 3 18.02.2014 2:24 315 11.0 7.93 3.21 480 66 25.02.2014 1:25 504 6.9 3.99 1.61 376 34 NON-GEO 5 02.04.2014 13:55 1840 1.9 5.05 0.51 388 14 6 18.04.2014 19:09 885 3.9 7.53 2.03 505 80 7 10.06.2014 13:09 1531 2.3 4.82 1.42 508 58 8 09.07.2014 18:36 503 5.51 1.73 365 16 9 15.08.2014 21:12 498 7.0 4.83 1.70 302 19 10 02.09.2014 17:00 419 8.3 5.10 1.02 389 25 11 10.09.2014 18:00 637 5.5 12.12 8.18 492 116 12 01.11.2014 5:12 675 5.1 4.23 1.01 462 35 13 19.12.2014 0:27 726 4.8 7.64 2.45 358 23 2.1 12.01.2015 15:36 1126 6.30 0.37 420 17 15 10.02.2015 3:03 512 6.8 5.77 355 24 10.03.2015 10:00 879 4.0 6.31 0.79 406 24.03.2015 10:40 722 1.15 510 49 18 04.04.2015 23:48 946 3.7 7.45 5.40 62 10.04.2015 7:00 502 8.21 5.57 360 26 20 19.04.2015 17:48 422 8.2 5.54 1.81 481 69 21 25.04.2015 15:12 520 6.7 4.45 1.46 313 22 21.06.2015 2:48 1213 2.9 9.99 8.14 383 111 2.7 25.06.2015 8:36 644 5.4 5.7 2.05 554 83 19.07.2015 19:09 591 5.8 6.40 2.53 326 39 1.1 22.08.2015 23:12 459 7.5 6.81 2.93 429 61 1.3 04.11.2015 14:24 466 7.4 9.90 4.68 536 57 A total of 26 coronal mass ejections was considered that occurred in 2014 and 2015, were identified as non-geoeffective 14 of them. Of the 14 non-geoeffective CMEs in 6 cases was showed in response to the anisotropy of the muon flux according URAGAN data, while changes in the counting rates was not observed during such events. During geoeffective CMEs usually observed Forbush decrease. In this case, 9 events from 12 events observed changes in the values of the local anisotropy muon flux.
Conclusion Registration of muons in the hodoscopic mode enables to investigate with a single setup not only the intensity of the cosmic ray flux, but also its local anisotropy sensitive to the changes in the heliosphere. Non-geoeffective ejections have a small effect on the response muon hodoscope. The presented approach to the study of coronal emission mass will be the basis of the method identification of geoeffective events. This work was performed at the Unique Scientific Facility “Experimental complex NEVOD” in Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
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