WP2 Catalogue
This WP provides the foundation for the HELCATS project, through the production of a catalogue of CMEs in the heliosphere. The catalogue is produced from manual inspection of STEREO/HI data. Please see the release notes for the catalogue. (DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.5803152)
This is version: 06 of the catalogue, released 2019-03-18, last updated 2024-10-16. The latest version includes events to the end of September 2024 on STEREO-A. Note that there is a gap of approximately 1 year in STEREO-A data from October 2014 when the spacecraft passed behind the Sun. Data from STEREO-B are not available after Septmeber 2014 since contact with the spacecraft has yet to be re-established.
The complete catalogue can be downloaded in several formats (Fixed format ASCII, JSON, VoTable XML)
| Date range | ||
| ID | Date [UTC] |
SC | L:N | PA-N [deg] |
L:S | PA-S [deg] |
Quality |
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The catalogue contains the following columns:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| ID | The unique identifer for the observed CME. |
| Date [UTC] | The date and time of the first observation of the CME in HI1 camera. |
| SC | The observing STEREO spacecraft, (A=Ahead or B=Behind). |
| L:N | Indicator that CME extends beyond the northern edge of the field-of-view (< for sc A, > sc B, blank if edge within FOV). |
| PA-N [deg] | The most northern position angle of the CME span. |
| L:S | Indicator that CME extends beyond the southern edge of the feld-of-view (> for sc A, < for sc B, blank if edge within FOV). |
| PA-S [deg] | The most southern position angle of the CME span. |
| Quality | A measure of "good", "fair" or "poor", that indicates the quality of the CME observation and confidence that the eruption is by definition a CME. It is recommended that Poor events are not used for CME based studies. |
