Deriving the Properties of Coronal Pressure Fronts in 3-d: Application to the 17 May 2012 Ground Level Enhancement
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We study the link between an expanding coronal shock and the energetic particles measured near Earth during the Ground Level Enhancement (GLE) of 17 May 2012. We developed a new technique based on multipoint imaging to triangulate the 3-D expansion of the shock forming in the corona. It uses images from three vantage points by mapping the outermost extent of the coronal region perturbed by the pressure front. We derive for the first time the 3-D velocity vector and the distribution of Mach numbers, MFM , of the entire front as a function of time. Our approach uses magnetic field reconstructions of the coronal field, full magneto-hydrodynamic simulations and imaging inversion techniques. We find that the highest MFM values appear along the coronal neutral line within a few minutes of the CME eruption; this neutral line is usually associated with the source of the heliospheric and plasma sheet. We can also estimate the time evolution of the shock speed, shock geometry and Mach number along different modeled magnetic field lines. Despite the level of uncertainty in deriving the shock Mach numbers, all employed reconstruction techniques show that the release time of GeV particles occurs when the coronal shock becomes super-critical (MFM > 3) near the tip of helmet streamers. Combining in-situ measurements with heliospheric imagery, we also demonstrate that magnetic connectivity between the accelerator (the coronal shock of 17 May 2012) and the near-Earth environment is established via a magnetic cloud that erupted from the same active region roughly five days earlier. This analysis also shows that the derivation of magnetic connectivity between the coronal shock and a probe must result from a full analysis of the interplanetary medium extending back in time by at least five days before the event of interest.
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