\begin{table}%t2 \par \caption{\label{Tab_ICMEs}Summary of results on MCs and ICMEs. } %\centerline {\begin{tabular}{@{}cllllc@{}} \hline\hline Quantity$^{{a}}$ & Object & $D$ range$^{{b}}$ & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$c$}$^{{c}}$ & \multicolumn{1}{c}{$e$} & Ref.$^{{d}}$\\ \hline $d$& model &$ 0.3,~2 $&$ $&$ ~~~ 1 $& ~~\ref{Chen96} \\ $d$& model &$ 0.3,~5 $&$ $&$ ~~~ 0.88 $& \ref{Chen96} \\ $d$& model &$ 2,~5 $&$ $&$ ~~~ 0.71 $& \ref{Chen96} \\ $d$& model &$ $&$ $&$ ~~~ 1 $& \ref{Kumar96} \\ $d$& MC &$ 0.3,~4. $&$ 0.3 $&$ ~~~ 0.97 $& \ref{Kumar96} \\ $S$& MC &$ 0.3,~4.2 $&$ 0.24 \pm 0.01 $&$ ~~~ 0.78 \pm 0.10 $& \ref{Bothmer98} \\ $d$& MC &$ 0.3,~1 $&$ 0.23 \pm 0.05 $&$ ~~~ 1.14 \pm 0.44 $& \ref{Leitner07} \\ $d$& MC &$ 0.3,~7 $&$ 0.20 \pm 0.02 $&$ ~~~ 0.61 \pm 0.09 $& \ref{Leitner07} \\ $S$& ICME &$ 0.3,~5.4 $&$ 0.25 \pm 0.01 $&$ ~~~ 0.92 \pm 0.07 $& \ref{Liu06} \\ $S$& ICME &$ 0.3,~5.4 $&$ 0.19 $&$ ~~~ 0.61 $& \ref{Wang05} \\ $d$& model &$ 0.3,~3 $&$ 0.2 $&$ ~~~ 0.64 \pm 0.05 $& \ref{present} \\ \hline $\Bc $& model &$ $&$ $&$ -2 $& \ref{Kumar96} \\ $\Bc $& MC &$ 0.3,~4. $&$ 18 $&$ -1.8 $& \ref{Kumar96} \\ $\Bc $& MC &$ 0.3,~1 $&$ 18 \pm 4 $&$ -1.64 \pm 0.40 $& \ref{Leitner07} \\ $\Bc $& MC &$ 0.3,~7 $&$ 19 \pm 1 $&$ -1.30 \pm 0.09 $& \ref{Leitner07} \\ $\bar{B}$& ICME &$ 0.3,~5.4 $&$~~ 7 \pm 0.4 $&$ -1.40 \pm 0.08 $& \ref{Liu06} \\ $\bar{B}$& ICME &$ 0.3,~5.4 $&$~~ 8.3 $&$ -1.52 $& \ref{Wang05} \\ $\Bc $& model &$ 0.3,~3 $&$ 20 $&$ -1.60 \pm 0.10 $& \ref{present} \\ \hline \end{tabular}} \par \smallskip \par $^{{a}}$ The physical quantities studied are: the diameter of the flux rope $d$, the size, $S$ (estimated along the spacecraft trajectory), the central field strength $\Bc$ (estimated from a fitted magnetic model to the data for MCs), and the average field strength, $\bar{B}$, along the spacecraft trajectory. $^{{b}}$ The range of solar distance, $D$, is in AU. $^{{c}}$ The data are fitted with a power law $c (D/\Do )^e$ with $\Do=1~\rm AU$. $c$ is in AU for the diameter/size and in nT for the magnetic field strength. $e$ is dimensionless. $^{{d}}$ The results are from: \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Chen96} \ref{Chen96}: \citet{Chen96}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Kumar96} \ref{Kumar96}: \citet{Kumar96}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Bothmer98} \ref{Bothmer98}: \citet{Bothmer98}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Leitner07} \ref{Leitner07}: \citet{Leitner07}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Liu06} \ref{Liu06}: \citet{Liu06}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{Wang05} \ref{Wang05}: \citet{Wang05}, \refstepcounter{ref} \label{present} \ref{present}: present work. The comparison of consecutive lines with the same reference indicate the variation of the results ($c,e$) with the range of $D$ selected or the difference between a model and observations. \end{table}