Spatial Relationship between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections

Details Spatial Relationship between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Spatial Relationship between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections

2007-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/0710.3054v1

Astrophys.J. 673 (2008) 1174-1181

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages; 4 figures; Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/524927

We report on the spatial relationship between solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed during 1996-2005 inclusive. We identified 496 flare-CME pairs considering limb flares (distance from central meridian > 45 deg) with soft X-ray flare size > C3 level. The CMEs were detected by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). We investigated the flare positions with respect to the CME span for the events with X-class, M-class, and C-class flares separately. It is found that the most frequent flare site is at the center of the CME span for all the three classes, but that frequency is different for the different classes. Many X-class flares often lie at the center of the associated CME, while C-class flares widely spread to the outside of the CME span. The former is different from previous studies, which concluded that no preferred flare site exists. We compared our result with the previous studies and conclude that the long-term LASCO observation enabled us to obtain the detailed spatial relation between flares and CMEs. Our finding calls for a closer flare-CME relationship and supports eruption models typified by the CSHKP magnetic reconnection model.

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