The origin of CME helicity

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Sun: Activity, Sun: Coronal Mass Ejection, Sun: Magnetic Fields, Sun: Photosphere, Sun: Corona

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We investigate whether the bulk of magnetic helicity carried away from the Sun by CMEs comes from helicity injected to the corona by shearing motions or by emerging magnetic flux. We use photospheric magnetic field observations of active region NOAA 9165 (AR 9165) which is an ideal candidate for such study because (1) it is the site of both new flux emergence and intense horizontal shearing flows; (2) it shows rapid development and rapid decay and for a few days it is the site of violent activity; (3) the horizontal motions occur when it is close to disk center, thus minimizing the errors involved in the relevant computations; (4) observations of a magnetic cloud associated with one of the CMEs linked to the active region are available. The computed helicity change due to horizontal shearing motions is probably the largest ever reported; it amounts to about the total helicity that the active region's differential rotation would have injected within 3 solar rotations. But the CMEs linked to the active regions remove at least a factor of 4-64 more helicity than the helicity injected by horizontal shearing motions. Consequently the main source of the helicity carried away by the CMEs is the new magnetic flux that emerges twisted from the convective zone.

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