Trajectories of Coronal Mass Ejection from Solar-type Stars
arXiv:2305.07159 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1078
Abstract
The Sun and other solar-type stars have magnetic fields that permeate their interior and surface, extends through the interplanetary medium, and is the main driver of stellar activity. Stellar magnetic activity affects physical processes and conditions of the interplanetary medium and orbiting planets. Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are the most impacting of these phenomena in near-Earth space weather, and consist of plasma clouds, with magnetic field, ejected from the solar corona. Precisely predicting the trajectory of CMEs is crucial in determining whether a CME will hit a planet and impact its magnetosphere and atmosphere. Despite the rapid developments in the search for stellar CMEs, their detection is still very incipient. In this work we aim to better understand the propagation of CMEs by analysing the influence of initial parameters on CME trajectories, such as position, velocities, and stellar magnetic field's configuration. We reconstruct magnetograms for Kepler-63 (KIC 11554435) and Kepler-411 (KIC 11551692) from spot transit mapping, and use a CME deflection model, ForeCAT, to simulate trajectories of hypothetical CMEs launched into the interplanetary medium from Kepler-63 and Kepler-411. We apply the same methodology to the Sun, for comparison. Our results show that in general, deflections and rotations of CMEs decrease with their radial velocity, and increase with ejection latitude. Moreover, magnetic fields stronger than the Sun's, such as Kepler-63's, tend to cause greater CME deflections.
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