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Helium Abundance Variability at Different Spatial Scales Inside the ICME

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Problems of Geocosmos—2022 (ICS 2022)

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This study is devoted to the changing of the relative helium abundance inside the interplanetary manifestation of coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). Based on the OMNI database and WIND spacecraft measurements, the relationships between the helium abundance and other solar wind parameters are investigated for large (>106 km) and medium (105–106 km) spatial scales. At large scales, the statistical analysis of parameters values shows that the helium abundance increases with growth of the interplanetary magnetic field magnitude, and, as a result, anticorrelates with the plasma parameter β. The obtained results are consistent with the assumption about the existence of an electric current enriched with helium ions in the ICME central region. At scales 105–106 km, structures with significant correlation of the helium abundance and the magnetic field magnitude are observed in less than 5% of cases. In addition, in ~7% of cases there is clear anticorrelation between these two parameters. In general, at medium-scale structures inside the ICME, the dependences between parameters can vary significantly, and no unambiguous relationships between the helium abundance and other solar wind parameters are observed.

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    Alexander A. Khokhlachev, Yuri I. Yermolaev, Maria O. Riazantseva, Liudmila S. Rakhmanova & Irina G. Lodkina

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Khokhlachev, A.A., Yermolaev, Y.I., Riazantseva, M.O., Rakhmanova, L.S., Lodkina, I.G. (2023). Helium Abundance Variability at Different Spatial Scales Inside the ICME. In: Kosterov, A., Lyskova, E., Mironova, I., Apatenkov, S., Baranov, S. (eds) Problems of Geocosmos—2022. ICS 2022. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40728-4_19

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