A CME Mass Distribution Derived from SOLWIND Coronagraph Observations

Details A CME Mass Distribution Derived from SOLWIND Coronagraph Observations A CME Mass Distribution Derived from SOLWIND Coronagraph Observations

Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993soph..148..359j&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 148, Issue 2, pp.359-370

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Using estimates of the masses of nearly 1000 CMEs observed by SOLWIND from Howardet al. (1985), we re-plot the numbers of CMEs as a function of CME mass on a log-linear plot. The plot is significant in that it shows a linear trend over more than a decade of CME masses. The plot indicates a simple form for the distribution of the CME masses and allows an easy determination of the total mass ejected into the solar wind in the form of CMEs. We find that approximately 16% of the solar wind at solar maximum can be comprised of CME mass. There is no indication that the numbers of low-mass CMEs increase in number above the trend set by the more massive ones. Specifically, there is no increase in the numbers of small CMEs such that the whole of the solar wind can be comprised of them.

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