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UNITOV Catalogue of geoeffective CMEs
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A database associating L1 Time of Arrival and Speed of an interplanetary CME to the kinematic characteristics of the corresponding CME, covering the period 1996-2020.

References
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Dataset summary
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.. list-table::

  * - **internal_name:**
    - unitov_icme_tableset
  * - **publisher:**
    - University of Rome Tor Vergata Dept. of Physics
  * - **alph_code:**
    - 15
  * - **id_tmp:**
    - 44
  * - **short_name:**
    - UNITOV-ICME
  * - **identifier:**
    - aspis:/unitov/icme_tableset
  * - **dynamic:**
    - +10kB updated every year
  * - **size:**
    - 100kB
  * - **format:**
    - csv
  * - **type:**
    - tableset
  * - **records_number:**
    - 213
  * - **time_start:**
    - 1997-01-01
  * - **time_stop:**
    - 2019-12-31
  * - **spatial:**
    - IP
  * - **messenger:**
    - Photons,Protons
  * - **spectral_min:**
    - 0
  * - **spectral_max:**
    - 0
  * - **spectral_units:**
    - 
  * - **observable:**
    - 
  * - **latest update:**
    - 2024-03-28 05:08:17

Columns specification
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   :widths: 7 20 15 10 48
   :align: right 
   :header-rows: 1

   * - progr
     - column
     - units
     - type
     - description
   * - 1
     - time
     - UTC
     - datetime
     - datetime (1997-01-06T16:23:38) - time of the first detection of the CME in LASCO FoV
   * - 2
     - HPC_Tx
     - arcsec
     - float
     - arcsec (25.21) - Helioprojective Cartesian Longitutude: the angle relative to the plane containing the Sun-observer line and the Sun’s rotation axis, with positive values in the direction of the Sun’s west limb
   * - 3
     - HPC_Ty
     - arcsec
     - float
     - arcsec (-3.22) - Helioprojective Cartesian Latitude: the angle relative to the Sun’s equatorial plane, with positive values in the direction of the Sun’s north pole
   * - 4
     - HPC_distance
     - AU
     - float
     - AU (0.98) - the Sun-observer distance
   * - 5
     - CME_num
     - index
     - int
     - index (1) - progressive number
   * - 6
     - Start_Date
     - UTC
     - datetime
     - datetime (1997-01-06 16:23:38.000) - extimated time of the CME passage at 20 R_Sun
   * - 7
     - Arrival_Date
     - UTC
     - datetime
     - datetime (1997-01-06 16:23:38.000) - time of the CME passage at L1
   * - 8
     - PE_duration
     - hours
     - float
     - hours (22.0) - ICME Plasma Event duration at L1
   * - 9
     - Arrival_v
     - km/s
     - int
     - km/s (450) - measured velocity of the CME at L1
   * - 10
     - Transit_time
     - hours
     - float
     - hours (98.3) - time elapsed from the Start_Date and Arrival_Date
   * - 11
     - Transit_time_err
     - hours
     - float
     - hours (98.3) - error associated to the extimated transit time
   * - 12
     - LASCO_Date
     - UTC
     - datetime
     - datetime (1997-01-06 16:23:38.000) - time of the first detection of the CME in LASCO FoV
   * - 13
     - LASCO_v
     - km/s
     - int
     - km/s (459.5) - plane-of-sky velocity of the CME from LASCO images
   * - 14
     - LASCO_pa
     - deg
     - int
     - deg (263.0) - CME principal angle, counterclockwise from North
   * - 15
     - LASCO_da
     - deg
     - int
     - deg (165.0) - CME angular width
   * - 16
     - LASCO_halo
     - char
     - char
     - string (N/PH/HH/FH) - indicating halo/partial halo CME
   * - 17
     - v_r
     - km/s
     - float
     - km/s (705.35) - estimated radial velocity of the CME
   * - 18
     - v_r_err
     - km/s
     - float
     - km/s (104.89) - error associated to the radial velocity of the CME
   * - 19
     - Theta_source
     - arcsec
     - float
     - arcsec (14.92) - longitude of the most probable source of the CME on the solar disk
   * - 20
     - Phi_source
     - arcsec
     - float
     - arcsec (-25.97) - co-latitude of the most probable source of the CME on the solar disk
   * - 21
     - source_err
     - arcsec
     - float
     - arcsec (20.0) - uncertainty on the source location on the solar disk
   * - 22
     - POS_source_angle
     - deg
     - float
     - deg (64.60) - plane-of-sky angle of the source region of the CME
   * - 23
     - rel_wid
     - rad
     - float
     - rad (0.5585) - estimated deprojected CME angular width
   * - 24
     - Mass
     - g
     - float
     - g (1.8e+16) - Estimated mass of the CME
   * - 25
     - SW_type
     - char
     - char
     - char (F/S) - Solar wind type (Fast/Slow) for the ICME propagation
   * - 26
     - Bz
     - nT
     - int
     - nT (16) - z-component of the ICME magnetic field at L1
   * - 27
     - DST
     - nT
     - int
     - nT (-68.0) - minimum DST during ICME event at L1
   * - 28
     - v_r_stat
     - km/s
     - float
     - km/s (544.73) - statistical de-projection of the CME POS speed
   * - 29
     - Accel.
     - m/s^2
     - float
     - m/s^2 (8.9076) - CME acceleration between the lift-off and 20 solar radii
   * - 30
     - Analyitic_w
     - km/s
     - float
     - km/s (395.56) - solar wind value obtained via analytic inversion of the DBM equations
   * - 31
     - Analyitic_gamma
     - km^-1
     - float
     - km^-1 (3.5029e-06) -value of the drag parameter obtained via analytic inversion of the DBM equations
   * - 32
     - filename
     - char
     - char
     - string (CME_0111_param_inv.txt ) - name of the file containing PDBM information from the statistical inversion procedure
