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Intermittency in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Observed by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

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Pith's one-line read In coronal mass ejections, turbulence intermittency is radially invariant between 0.25 and 1 au, while sheath regions become more intermittent with distance.

desk verdict A useful first statistical sample of ICME intermittency, but the radial-invariance claim needs significance testing or softer wording before it can stand. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.22283 v1 pith:QJCAD5CX submitted 2025-05-28 astro-ph.SR physics.plasm-phphysics.space-ph

classification astro-ph.SRphysics.plasm-phphysics.space-ph
keywords intermittencyinterplanetarycoronalmassejectionsmagneticfluxropesolarwindturbulencekurtosisstructurefunctionsParkerProbeOrbiter
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The pith

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The reading

The paper asks whether the small-scale magnetic fluctuations inside interplanetary coronal mass ejections behave like developed turbulence and whether that turbulence changes as the ejections travel from 0.25 to 1 au. Using kurtosis and its scaling exponent in 49 ICMEs observed by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, it finds that intermittency inside the ICMEs is radially invariant, while in the sheath regions ahead of the ICMEs intermittency increases with distance. The same scale-dependent kurtosis behavior appears in ICMEs, sheaths, and the surrounding solar wind, meaning ICME interiors are no less intermittent than the wind around them. The paper interprets the ICME result as evidence that these structures are relatively stable, fully developed turbulent environments, and the sheath result as evidence that sheath turbulence is still developing close to the Sun and may contain non-turbulent coherent structures that inflate kurtosis.

What carries the argument

The analysis is carried by scale-dependent kurtosis of magnetic-field increments, $\kappa(\tau) = S_4^B(\tau)/(S_2^B(\tau))^2$, computed from second- and fourth-order structure functions of the field magnitude; $\kappa = 3$ marks a Gaussian distribution and higher values indicate intermittency. The intermittency level is quantified by $\alpha_\kappa$, the exponent of the power-law fit $\kappa \propto f^{\alpha_\kappa}$ (or $\kappa \propto k\,d_i^{\alpha_\kappa}$) across bins in the inertial range, with steeper exponents meaning a more developed turbulent cascade. Spacecraft frequencies are converted to plasma-frame scales $k\,d_i$ through Taylor's hypothesis, and a wavelet-based local intermittency measure (LIM) is used as a consistency check and to locate the fluctuations that drive the non-Gaussian tails. The comparison across radial distances is made by averaging event-wise $\alpha_\kappa$ in a fixed bin, $10^{-2.5} < k\,d_i < 10^{-1.5}$, away from injection and kinetic scales.

What would settle it

Apply the same kurtosis analysis after subtracting a fitted smooth flux-rope model (for example a force-free cylindrical field) instead of a running average, and check whether ακ in ICMEs remains radially invariant; if the invariance vanishes or the exponent values shift systematically, the result is an artifact of the background-removal choice.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the level of intermittency in ICME interiors, measured by the scaling exponent $\alpha_\kappa$ of magnetic-field kurtosis in the MHD inertial range ($10^{-2.5} < k\,d_i < 10^{-1.5}$), does not vary with heliocentric distance between 0.25 and 1 au. In the ICME sheath regions, by contrast, $\alpha_\kappa$ increases with distance. Kurtosis behaves similarly across all four interval types (upstream wind, sheath, ICME, downstream wind), with values well above the Gaussian level at small scales and a gradual return toward Gaussian statistics at larger scales; the average intermittency level is comparable in all intervals. Correlations between $\alpha_\kappa$ and distance, speed, spectral index, residual energy, cross helicity, and proton $\beta$ are generally low, with the only clear radial trends appearing in upstream and sheath intervals. The authors conclude that ICMEs are relatively static, well-developed turbulent environments, while sheaths are younger structures whose turbulence is not yet fully developed at small heliocentric distances; unusually high absolute kurtosis with low scaling exponent in some sheaths may reflect non-turbulent structures rather than an evolved cascade.

Load-bearing premise

The conclusion rests on assuming that, after subtracting a 1–4 hour running average, the residual magnetic-field fluctuations inside each ICME are stationary, homogeneous turbulence; if flux-rope rotation, interval boundaries, or non-turbulent coherent structures contaminate the residual, the measured kurtosis and its radial invariance would not describe turbulent intermittency.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • ICME interiors can be treated as statistically stationary turbulence over 0.25–1 au, so observations at different heliocentric distances can be merged when studying their small-scale fluctuations.
  • The absence of radial evolution means the turbulent state of an ICME is established early and is not reset by expansion or interaction with the surrounding solar wind.
  • Sheath turbulence is still developing near the Sun, so radial distance must be accounted for when comparing sheath intermittency between events or missions.
  • In sheaths, absolute kurtosis and scaling exponent can disagree, so studies that report only kurtosis values may overstate the development of the turbulent cascade.
  • Because intermittency levels are similar across ICMEs, sheaths, and ambient wind, intermittency alone cannot identify an ICME interval in the magnetic-field data.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: if ICME turbulence is already fully developed at 0.25 au, particle-acceleration and cosmic-ray transport models may be able to use a fixed fluctuation-scattering prescription inside ejecta rather than a distance-dependent one.
  • Editorial inference: the sheath trend predicts even lower intermittency at distances below 0.25 au, so close perihelion passes could test whether the increase continues or saturates.
  • Editorial inference: separating coherent structures from turbulence in sheaths (for example by thresholding the local intermittency measure or checking phase coherence) on the same events would test whether the high-κ, low-ακ population is truly non-turbulent.
  • Editorial inference: re-running the analysis separately for magnetic clouds and complex ejecta would show whether radial invariance is generic to ICMEs or specific to smooth flux ropes.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper analyzes scale-dependent magnetic-field intermittency in 49 ICMEs observed by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter between 0.25 and 1 au, together with their sheath, upstream, and downstream solar-wind intervals. It uses structure-function-based kurtosis κ(τ) and its scaling exponent ακ, with a wavelet-based local intermittency measure as a cross-check, and reports Kendall correlations between ακ and heliocentric distance R, speed, spectral index, residual energy, cross helicity, and proton beta. The central claims are that ICMEs show a radially invariant level of intermittency, interpreted as relatively static, fully developed turbulence, while sheaths show increasing intermittency with distance, interpreted as still-evolving turbulence.

Significance. If the central claim is substantiated, this would be a valuable multi-spacecraft statistical result: it would show that large-scale ICME expansion does not, by itself, modify inertial-range intermittency, and it would provide a concrete observational contrast between ICMEs and sheaths. The study has clear strengths: a 49-event sample from two modern spacecraft, a transparent event list in Table 2, use of standard structure-function and wavelet diagnostics, and explicit comparison with earlier case studies. The analysis is reproducible in principle because the events are listed and the data are public. However, the headline distinction between 'radially invariant ICME' and 'evolving sheath' currently rests on low Kendall coefficients without significance tests, confidence intervals, or equivalence tests, and the radial sampling is bimodal between the two spacecraft. These issues are load-bearing for the paper's conclusions.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3.2, Table 1; §5] The conclusion that ICMEs are 'radially invariant' rests on the single Kendall coefficient τ=0.11 between ακ and R for ICMEs, while the sheath value is τ=0.30. No p-values, confidence intervals, or equivalence tests are reported anywhere. With 49 events, the approximate 95% CI for τ=0.11 is about −0.08 to 0.30, so a radial trend as strong as the sheath trend is not excluded by the ICME data, and the claimed ICME-versus-sheath difference is not demonstrated. The statement in §3.2 that 'the values remain low in other kdi ranges' does not supply the missing uncertainty quantification. Please add bootstrap confidence intervals and/or equivalence tests (e.g., two one-sided tests against a pre-specified margin), and report p-values for all entries in Table 1. Without this, 'radial invariance' is an under-determined null result rather than a supported claim.
  2. [§3.2, Figure 4; Table 2] The radial comparison is confounded by the bimodal spacecraft sampling. In Table 2, PSP events are concentrated at R ≤ 0.69 au and SolO events at R ≥ 0.61 au, with few events in the overlap region. If PSP and SolO yield systematically different ακ values due to different noise levels, cadences, or data processing, a spacecraft-dependent offset could either create or mask the apparent radial trend in ακ versus R. Please test for a spacecraft dependence by including spacecraft as a covariate, computing within-spacecraft Kendall coefficients, or overlaying the ακ distributions by spacecraft in Figure 4. This is particularly important for the sheath trend, where τ=0.30 could in principle be driven by a PSP/SolO offset rather than by a true radial evolution.
  3. [§3.2, Figure 3] The choice of the fitting range 10^-2.5 < kdi < 10^-1.5 appears post hoc. The text states that power-law fitting was performed in seven one-decade bins, that the two outermost bins were excluded because they include parts of the injection and kinetic scales, and that the analysis then concentrates on one middle range. The paper says that correlation values remain low in other kdi ranges but does not show them. Because the central claim concerns ακ and its correlations, please report the Kendall coefficients for all seven bins (for example, in a supplementary table) and either justify the chosen range a priori or demonstrate that the ICME/sheath distinction is stable across the full inertial range. Small shifts in the fitting range could alter the apparent radial invariance.
  4. [§3.1–3.2] The interpretation of ακ as an intermittency measure of homogeneous turbulence assumes that the residual fluctuations, after removing running averages of 1 to 4 hours, are stationary and are not dominated by the large-scale flux-rope rotation or boundary layers. The paper itself notes in §3.1 that 'some systematic inhomogeneities in the distribution of enhanced fluctuation amplitudes across the subintervals may be enhancing the LIM', and it removes only 10% of the ICME interval at each boundary. In addition, the shortest ICMEs have durations near the 3-hour minimum, for which a 4-hour running average is ill-defined, and the stated robustness check is not shown quantitatively. Please provide a stationarity analysis of the residuals (e.g., splitting each interval into subintervals and comparing ακ) or a flux-rope model subtraction for a subset of events. Without such a check, the measured kurtosis may reflect non-turbulent large-scale structure rather than turbulence intermittency, and the radial invariance could be an artifact of averaging over heterogeneous intervals.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§3.2] Please specify the fitting procedure used to obtain ακ and αPSD (log-log least squares, weighting, number of points per bin) and how the 'center of each bin' is defined.
  2. [§2] The sentence 'only events with average proton β of less than 0.5 are included' should state the time averaging window and data source used for β; Table 2 does not list β, so the reader cannot verify this selection criterion.
  3. [§3.1] For the example event, the ακ value of 0.40 is reported without an uncertainty, and the fitting range (10^-3 to 10^-1 Hz) differs from the range used in the statistical analysis; please give the fit uncertainty and clarify the relationship between the two ranges.
  4. [Figure 4] The color scales for αPSD and |σc| are not described in the caption or in the text; please add color-bar labels and explain the five-point moving average used for the trend lines.
  5. [Table 1 and Table 2] The phrase 'T able 2' should be corrected, and Table 2 should clarify that shock times are absent for some events rather than implying a complete shock-time column.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: kurtosis and its scaling exponent are measured from data with standard definitions, and the radial-invariance conclusion is an observational interpretation, not a fitted prediction or self-citation-dependent derivation.

full rationale

The paper's central quantities are computed directly from measured magnetic field data: kurtosis is defined by Eq. (2) as κ(τ) = S4_B(τ)/(S2_B(τ))^2, and the intermittency measure ακ is obtained by power-law fitting of κ versus kdi in a chosen inertial-range bin. No parameter is fitted to the radial trend and then repackaged as a prediction; the Kendall correlations in Table 1 are reported as measured associations, and the claim of radial invariance in ICMEs is an interpretation of a low correlation coefficient (τ = 0.11), not a derivation from the definition of κ or ακ. The conclusion that 'steeper values of the scaling exponent, ακ, correspond to more developed turbulence' is a standard interpretive convention supported by external literature (Sorriso-Valvo et al. 2019, 2021; Telloni et al. 2021), not a circular redefinition. Self-citations appear for context or as data/catalog sources (e.g., Good et al. 2023 for related indications; ICMECAT catalog with co-author Möstl), but the load-bearing measurement chain does not reduce to any self-citation. The choice of the kdi range 10^-2.5 < kdi < 10^-1.5 is a methodological selection made after inspecting the data, which is a statistical or robustness concern rather than circularity. The paper is a self-contained observational statistical study against external benchmarks, so no circular step meeting the evidence standard is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are proposed. The analysis depends on standard turbulence measures and a set of domain assumptions common in solar wind studies, plus a few post hoc methodological choices (kdi range, boundary trimming, duration threshold).

free parameters (3)
  • kdi fitting range = 10^-2.5 to 10^-1.5
    Chosen post hoc to sit in the middle of the inertial range; used for all alpha_kappa and alpha_PSD fits and correlations.
  • Boundary removal fraction = 10% of interval duration
    Applied to ends of upstream, start of downstream, and both ends of ICMEs to mitigate boundary effects; not applied to sheaths.
  • Minimum ICME duration = 3 hours
    Selection threshold to ensure sampling of the inertial range; also minimum sheath duration.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Taylor's hypothesis holds, so spacecraft frequency maps to plasma-frame wavenumber k via mean flow speed and density.
    Used to convert f_sc to k_di in Section 2; if flow speed is not much larger than Alfven speed, the conversion is invalid.
  • domain assumption After detrending, residual magnetic field fluctuations are stationary and homogeneous within each interval.
    Assumed in Section 3.2 and 4 when interpreting kurtosis as turbulence intermittency; boundary regions are trimmed but internal large-scale structure is not removed.
  • domain assumption ICMECAT interval boundaries (shock, start, end) are accurate for all but one event.
    The entire analysis depends on the event selection from the ICMECAT catalog; one event had its end time changed by visual inspection.
  • domain assumption The scaling exponent alpha_kappa, fitted over one decade in k_di, is a valid measure of intermittency level and turbulence development.
    Used throughout to compare intermittency; the paper itself notes that absolute kurtosis may be affected by non-turbulent structures, so alpha_kappa is preferred, but its validity is assumed.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Intermittency in Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections Observed by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter},
  year         = {2026},
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Intermittency has been studied extensively in the fast and slow solar winds but to a far lesser extent in interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs). While ICMEs are often characterized by their relatively smooth, large-scale magnetic flux rope structures, a spectrum of fluctuations is nonetheless present at smaller scales. We have examined kurtosis and its scaling exponents at magnetohydrodynamic inertial scales in 49 ICMEs observed between 0.25 and 1 au by Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, and compared the results to those obtained for the ICME sheath regions and ambient solar wind intervals. Kurtosis behaves similarly in all intervals studied and presents a universal behavior typical of intermittent time series. The ICMEs displayed a radially invariant level of intermittency, suggesting that they are relatively static, well-developed turbulent environments. In the sheath regions, the level of intermittency increased with distance, indicating that the turbulence is not yet fully developed at small heliocentric distances. In addition to intermittent fluctuations related to turbulence, the sheath regions may possess a population of non-turbulent structures that increase the absolute value of kurtosis.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.22283 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. An example ICME observed by SolO on October 17, 2023 at 0.37 au. From top to bottom, the panels show magnetic field magnitude and its RTN components, 30-min average of the magnetic field longitude angle in RTN coordinates, wavelet PSD of magnetic field, LIM, σr, and σc. The ICME interval is located between the two vertical black lines. Some systematic inhomogeneities in the distribution of enhanced fluctuation ampli… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. The four panels on the left show distributions of δBR for the example ICME event at different scales. Different colored lines correspond to different intervals (upstream, sheath, ICME, downstream) and dashed line corresponds to a Gaussian distribution. The right panel shows κ and κLIM (dashed lines) as a function of spacecraft frequencies. The black horizontal line corresponds to κ = 3. color. As is characteristic o… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Kurtosis as a function of kdi for all 49 events. Colored line in each panel corresponds to the mean across all events. In the upper right panel means of all four intervals have been plotted with their interquartile ranges. The lower right panel shows the average of event-wise kurtosis scaling exponents at different scales. The bars shown in the panel correspond to the standard deviation of the distributions. tested … view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: ακ in range 10−2.5 < kdi < 10−1.5 as a function of R (top row) and σr (bottom row) for each interval type. The events have been colored based on αPSD and σc for the top and bottom panels, respectively. Black lines show five-point moving averages. wind preceding and tra…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: ⟨κ⟩ in range 10−2.5 < kdi < 10−1.5 as a function of σr for the sheath and ICME intervals. The events have been colored based on αPSD. Black lines show five-point moving averages. tral slopes. To make our results more comparable with other studies, in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:…

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