Analysis of the Causes of the Magnetic Storm on December 1–2, 2023 Based on Observations of Interplanetary Scintillations at the BSA Radio Telescope of the Lebedev Physical Institute

Abstract

The results of the analysis of observational data of interplanetary scintillations obtained at the Big Synphasic Antenna radio telescope of the Lebedev Physical Institute (BSA LPI) before, during and after the magnetic storm that occurred on December 1–2, 2023. Observational data were compared with model calculations for corotating and propagating large-scale disturbances. The results of observations of scintillations of radio sources indicate that the magnetic storm that took place was caused by the superposition of two types of large-scale disturbances of the solar wind. On the day before the start of the magnetic storm, signs of interaction of the Earth’s magnetosphere with the corotating region of multi-velocity solar wind flows were observed, whereas later signs of disturbance of the magnetosphere by a coronal mass ejection propagating after the M9.8 flare on November 28, 2023 were observed.