The solar cycle variation of coronal mass ejections and the solar wind mass flux

Details The solar cycle variation of coronal mass ejections and the solar wind mass flux The solar cycle variation of coronal mass ejections and the solar wind mass flux

Mar 1994

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A3, p. 4201-4220

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Mass Flow Rate, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Sunspot Cycle, Magnetic Field Configurations, Statistical Analysis

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are an important aspect of coronal physics and a potentially significant contributor to perturbations of the solar wind, such as its mass flux. Sufficient data on CMEs are now available to permit study of their longer-term occurrency patterns. Here we present the results of a study of CME occurrence rates over more than a complete 11-year solar sunspot cycle and a comparison of these rates with those of other activity related to CMEs and with the solar wind particle flux at 1 AU. The study includes an evaluation of correlations to the CME rates, which include instrument duty cycles, visibility functions, mass detection thresholds, and geometrical considerations. The main results are as follows: (1) The frequency of occurrence of CMEs tends to track the solar activity cycle in both amplitude and phase; (2) the CME rates from different instruments, when corrected for both duty cycles and visibility functions, are reasonably consistent; (3) considering only longer-term averages, no one class of solar activity is better correlated with CME rate than any other; (4) the ratio of the annualized CME to solar wind mass flux tends to track the solar cycle; and (5) near solar maximum, CMEs can provide a significant fraction (i.e., approximately equals 15%) of the average mass flux to the near-ecliptic solar wind.

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