Research
Exploring Coronal Mass Ejections with Synthetic Spacecraft
AAS Nova · By Kerry Hensley ·
The Brief
- The AAS Nova article asks how well researchers can reconstruct the properties of a coronal mass ejection from data a spacecraft collects while passing through it.
- New modeling uses synthetic spacecraft to explore how the spacecraft's trajectory affects the CME properties inferred from that data.
Why it matters
Estimates of CME properties from in-situ spacecraft data depend on the path the spacecraft takes through the event, so this modeling bears on how such measurements should be interpreted.
Who’s affected
- heliophysicists and space physics researchers
- space weather researchers
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When a spacecraft passes through a coronal mass ejection, how well can researchers reconstruct the properties of the event from the data collected along the way? New modeling explores the impact of spacecraft trajectory on the inferred properties of coronal mass ejections…