Abstract Details

Name: SOUVIK ROY
Affiliation: Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata
Conference ID: ASI2021_313
Title : Magnetohydrodynamical Understanding of the Interactions Between Coronal Mass Ejections and Earth's Magnetosphere
Authors and Co-Authors : Souvik Roy (Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata), Dibyendu Nandy (Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata; Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata)
Abstract Type : Oral
Abstract Category : Sun and the Solar System
Abstract : Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the large scale transient eruptions from the Sun, interact with the Earth's magnetosphere while travelling into the heliosphere. The energetic interplanetary CME (ICME) at 1AU not only creates geomagnetic storms and disrupts the magnetic field structure around the Earth but also impacts the plasma environment, causes strong aurorae, and disturbs the radio and electrical transmission massively. We use 3D compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a star-planet system and study the interesting magnetohydrodynamic processes like bow-shock, magnetopause, magnetotail, planet-bound current sheets, magnetic reconnections, atmospheric mass loss as well as particle injection, etc., when an ICME flux rope crosses the Earth at 1 AU. We use the uniformly twisted force-free flux rope model proposed by Gold and Hoyle in 1960 to initiate the ICME and vary the flux rope properties using actual observational data. We observe a change in magnetopause's shape and the stand-off distance to the magnetopause. We notice twist helicity injection inside the magnetotail current system. We discover comparative increment in both the rates of atmospheric mass out-flow and solar wind in-flow in the vicinity of Earth during the geo-storm. Such studies will help us understand how energetic magnetic storms from a host star impact planetary magnetospheres and atmospheres with implications for planetary and exoplanetary habitability.