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We have created a new catalog of 325 interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) using their in-situ plasma signatures from 1996 to 2008; this time period includes Solar Cycle 23. The data set came from the OMNI near-Earth database. The one-minute resolution data that we used include magnetic-field strength, solar-wind speed, proton density, proton temperature, and plasma β. We compared this new catalog with other published catalogs. For every event, we indicated the presence of an ICME-driven shock. We identified the boundaries of ICMEs and their sheaths, and examined the statistical properties of characteristic parameters. We derived the duration and radial width of ICMEs and sheaths in the region near Earth. The statistical analysis of all events shows that, on average, sheaths travel faster than ICMEs, which indicates the expansion of CMEs in the interplanetary medium. They have higher mean magnetic-field strength values than ICMEs, and they are denser. They have higher mean proton temperature and plasma β than ICMEs, but they are smaller than ICMEs and last for a shorter time. The events were divided into different categories according to whether they included a shock and according to the phase of Solar Cycle 23 in which they are observed, i.e. ascending, maximum, or descending phase. We compared the different categories. We present a catalog of events available to the scientific community that studies ICMEs, and show the distribution and statistical properties of various parameters during these phenomena that govern the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and space weather.
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EM is grateful for the support given by the Greek SSF during her Ph.D. studies.
The authors are grateful to the UoA/SARG and to the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC), and OMNI database for the use of the data, obtained at omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov .
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Mitsakou, E., Moussas, X. Statistical Study of ICMEs and Their Sheaths During Solar Cycle 23 (1996 – 2008). Sol Phys 289, 3137–3157 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-014-0505-y
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