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An Essay on Terminology, Myths, - and Known Facts: Solar Transient - Flare - CME - Driver Gas - Piston - BDE - Magnetic Cloud - Shock Wave - Geomagnetic Storm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Rainer Schwenn
Rainer Schwenn*
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut fr Aeronomie, D 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

Abstract

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In the field of solar-terrestrial relations a clear and unique terminology is needed in order to abolish and avoid unnecessary confusion between the scientists from several involved disciplines. For example, the widely used abbreviation CME (for coronal mass ejection) has turned out to be somewhat misleading. Early on it had been known that other than coronal material is often involved in such events. The discoverers observed transient events of mass ejections from the sun, which could be observed in the corona owing to the newly available coronagraphs. This article is meant to clarify the terminology, with emphasis on giving credit to the original discoverers and the terms they introduced. With this aim in mind I suggest some minor modifications of the terminology.

Keywords

solar-terrestrialcoronal mass ejectioncoronagraphs
Type
Satellite Data from Ulysses, Yohkoh & Other Spacecrafts
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 154: Solar and Interplanetary Transients , 1996 , pp. 187 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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