Potential Method of Predicting Coronal Mass Ejection

ABSTRACT

Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) may be described as a blast of gas and highly charges solar mass fragments ejected into space.  These ejections, when directed toward Earth, have many different effects on terrestrial systems ranging from the Aurora Borealis to changes in wireless communications.  The importance of early prediction of these solar events cannot be overlooked.  There are several models currently accepted and utilized to predict these events, however, with earlier prediction of both the event and the location on the sun where the event will occur allows us to have earlier warnings as to when they will effect man-made systems.  A better prediction could perhpas be acheived by utilizing low angular resolution radio telescope arrays to catalog data from the sun at different radio frequencies on a regular basis.  Once this data is cataloged a better predictor for these CME's could be found.  We propose a model that allows a prediction to be made that appears to be longer than 24 hours.

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