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Titolo: | Plasma Physical Parameters along CME-driven Shocks. II. Observation-Simulation Comparison | Autori: | Bacchini, F. SUSINO, ROBERTO BEMPORAD, Alessandro Lapenta, G. |
Data pubblicazione: | 2015 | Rivista: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Numero: | 809 | Fascicolo: | 1 | Da pagina:: | 58 | Abstract: | In this work, we compare the spatial distribution of the plasma parameters along the 1999 June 11 coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven shock front with the results obtained from a CME-like event simulated with the FLIPMHD3D code, based on the FLIP-MHD particle-in-cell method. The observational data are retrieved from the combination of white-light coronagraphic data (for the upstream values) and the application of the Rankine-Hugoniot equations (for the downstream values). The comparison shows a higher compression ratio X and Alfvénic Mach number M<SUB>A</SUB> at the shock nose, and a stronger magnetic field deflection d toward the flanks, in agreement with observations. Then, we compare the spatial distribution of M<SUB>A</SUB> with the profiles obtained from the solutions of the shock adiabatic equation relating M<SUB>A</SUB>, X, and {θ }<SUB>{Bn</SUB>} (the angle between the upstream magnetic field and the shock front normal) for the special cases of parallel and perpendicular shock, and with a semi-empirical expression for a generically oblique shock. The semi-empirical curve approximates the actual values of M<SUB>A</SUB> very well, if the effects of a non-negligible shock thickness {δ }<SUB>{sh</SUB>} and plasma-to magnetic pressure ratio {β }<SUB>u</SUB> are taken into account throughout the computation. Moreover, the simulated shock turns out to be supercritical at the nose and sub-critical at the flanks. Finally, we develop a new one-dimensional Lagrangian ideal MHD method based on the GrAALE code, to simulate the ion-electron temperature decoupling due to the shock transit. Two models are used, a simple solar wind model and a variable-γ model. Both produce results in agreement with observations, the second one being capable of introducing the physics responsible for the additional electron heating due to secondary effects (collisions, Alfvén waves, etc.). | Acknowledgments: | Part of the research leading to these results has been carried out in the frame of the DEEP (Dynamically Exascale Entry Platform) project, which received funding from the European Community under Grant Agreement No. 287530. The simulations were conducted using computational resources provided by the PRACE Tier-0 Program. F.B. thanks B. Ripperda, D. Millas, and N. Magyar for useful discussions in the last phases of this work. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23497 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/58 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/58 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ApJ...809...58B | Fulltext: | open |
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