Yohkoh/SXT soft x-ray observations of sudden mass loss from the solar corona

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Jun 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.confr..58h&link_type=abstract

Hawaii Univ., International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 58

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Solar Corona, Stellar Mass Ejection, Astronomical Observatories, X Ray Astronomy, Stellar Activity, Stellar Structure

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Direct X-ray observations allow us to estimate the hot coronal mass before and after a flare or other disturbance of the type leading to a coronal mass ejection. The sudden disappearance of a large coronal structure (scale greater than 105 km) gives evidence that an ejection has occurred, if the time scales are much shorter than the conductive or radiative cooling times for such structures. A flare also typically adds large amounts of new material to the corona via evaporation resulting from the coronal energy release. This provides a competing mechanism that makes the estimation of the total mass loss somewhat difficult. We note that the X-ray observations have the advantage of covering the entire corona rather than the limb regions unlike the coronagraph observations. We have identified two examples of coronal mass disappearances. before and during long duration flare events on 21 Feb. 1992 (on the E limb) and 13 Nov. 1994 (near disk center). In latter case the total mass amounted to some 4 x 1014 g with a density of 3 x 108cm-3 and a temperature of 2.8 MK before its disappearance. This corresponds to a radiative cooling time of some 104 S. much longer than the observed time of disappearance. We therefore suggest that these sudden mass disappearances correspond with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and suggest that further data analysis will be able to confirm this by comparison with optical observations of specific CMEs.

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