Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusmsh52a..03z&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SH52A-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7500 Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy, 7509 Corona, 7513 Coronal Mass Ejections (2101), 7519 Flares, 7526 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7835)
Scientific paper
We present the results of a statistical study on the main and residual accelerations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). This work is based on a laborious but careful visual search of about 100000 images taken by LASCO (Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph) C1 from 1996 Jan. to 1998 Jun. Among a large number of active phenomena seen in the inner corona from 1.1 to 3.0 Rs by C1, we have identified 74 CMEs, which all have counterparts seen by LASCO C2 and C3 from 2 to 30 Rs. Out of these 74 C1 CMEs, 50 CMEs are found to be suitable for a quantitative study on their main acceleration in the inner corona and their residual acceleration in the outer corona. We find that, for the 50 events, the magnitude of the main acceleration ranges from 2.8 m/s2 to 4464.0 m/s2 with a median (average) value of 170.1 (330.9 m/s2 ) and a standard deviation of 644.8 m/s2, whereas the magnitude of the residual acceleration ranges only from -131.0 m/s2 to 52.0 m/s2 with a median (average) value of 3.1 (0.9 m/s2) and a standard deviation of 25.3 m/s2, The distribution of the duration of the main acceleration is from 6 min to 1200 min, with a median (average) value of 54 (180 min) and a standard deviation of 286 min. Apparently, the main acceleration has a wide distribution over almost three orders of magnitude in terms of both magnitude and duration, representing a continuous spectrum of events from extremely gradual ones all the way to extremely impulsive ones. We also find an interesting scaling law between acceleration magnitude (A) and acceleration duration (T) over the entire parameter range, that is A (m/s2) = 10000 T-1 (min); in the logarithmic scale, there is a strong inverse linear correlation between the two parameters, with a correlation coefficient of 0.95.
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