Magnetic Reconnection Flux and Coronal Mass Ejection Velocity

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Publishing date

Nov 2005

URL

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005apj...634l.121q&link_type=abstract

Journals

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 634, Issue 1, pp. L121-L124.

Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field

Astronomy

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Additional info 3

Sun: Activity, Sun: Coronal Mass Ejections (Cmes), Sun: Flares, Sun: Magnetic Fields

Type

Scientific paper

Abstract

We explore the relationship between the total reconnection flux ψrec estimated from flare observations and the velocity VCME of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed with the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) Experiment. Our study includes 13 events with varying magnetic configurations in source regions. It is shown that VCME is proportional to ψrec, with a linear cross-correlation of 89% and confidence level greater than 99.5%. This result confirms the importance of magnetic flux transferred by magnetic reconnection in the early stage of fast CMEs. On the other hand, the CME velocity and kinematic energy are probably independent of magnetic configurations of source regions.

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