Modeling ICME flux ropes as bent and distorted tubes
- 1NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- 2Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- 3Community Coordinated Modeling Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- 4Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Reininghausstrasse 3, A-8020 Graz, Austria
We present the latest results in our ongoing work to construct a generalized analytical flux rope model. Our previously published writhed flux rope model is extended to include non-circular cross-sections to better mimic the magnetic field measurements that are seen in situ and imaging observations. We implement our new model within the scope of a fast forward simulation model that propagates a flux rope away from the Sun into the heliosphere and can generate synthetic magnetic field measurements at arbitrary positions. This flux rope is continuously deformed along its axis due to interaction with the ambient solar wind which is provided by other models. We use our model and the forward simulation in an attempt to reconstruct the global picture of a particular multi-point ICME event.
How to cite: Weiss, A. J., Nieves-Chinchilla, T., Reiss, M., and Moestl, C.: Modeling ICME flux ropes as bent and distorted tubes, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-7135, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7135, 2023.
