EGU21-2667
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2667
EGU General Assembly 2021
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IPSCAT: A Catalogue of Solar Transients Identified through Interplanetary Scintillation Analysis

David Barnes, Mario Bisi, Jackie Davies, and Richard Harrison
David Barnes et al.
  • STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL Space, Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain – England, Scotland, Wales (david.barnes@stfc.ac.uk)

We present a catalogue, IPSCAT, of the results of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) analysis applied to observations that are compiled using data from three European radio networks, EISCAT, MERLIN and LOFAR, during the early science phase of the STEREO mission, from 2007 to 2012. These analyses provide a means to study the solar wind and interplanetary transients, which we complement with observations from the Heliospheric Imagers on-board STEREO. Within the IPS data set we identify transient phenomena, specifically Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and Stream Interaction Regions (SIRs), via both visual inspection and an automatic feature-finding algorithm. We study the effectiveness of the automated detection algorithm and find it to be successful at classifying CMEs, whilst the identification of SIRs is less easily established. A discussion of the statistical properties of IPSCAT is presented, together with a comparison between the IPS and HI results. Finally, we present a case study of successive CMEs within the IPSCAT data set, which were also observed by the HIs on both STEREO spacecraft and analysed using the Stereoscopic Self-Similar Expansion (SSSE) method. This work was carried out as part of the EU FP7 HELCATS (Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques Service) project (http://www.helcats-fp7.eu/).

How to cite: Barnes, D., Bisi, M., Davies, J., and Harrison, R.: IPSCAT: A Catalogue of Solar Transients Identified through Interplanetary Scintillation Analysis, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-2667, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2667, 2021.

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