Two Successive Coronal Mass Ejections Driven by the Kink and Drainage Instabilities of an Eruptive Prominence

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Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006apj...651.1238z&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 651, Issue 2, pp. 1238-1244.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Coronal Mass Ejections (Cmes), Sun: Prominences

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We describe a clear case of the initiation of a propagating bright arc and a CME on 2002 December 28, which were associated with an eruptive prominence. In EIT 304 and 195 Å images, a very long filament showed evidence of severe twisting in one of its fragments, which appeared as a prominence on December 26; then, the prominence showed the conversion of its twist into writhe. Two days later, the prominence displayed a slow rising motion for hours. Internal twisting and mass motion took place before the rapid acceleration and final eruption. The propagating bright arc and the following CME corresponded to the early rising and the subsequently eruptive phases of the prominence, respectively. Signatures of magnetic reconnection, i.e., a cusp structure and postflare loops in EUV wave bands and hard X-ray sources in the corona, were observed after the prominence eruption. It appears that the kink instability and the mass drainage in the prominence played key roles in triggering the initiation of the CME. However, the rather impulsive acceleration of the CME resulted from magnetic reconnection beneath the filament.

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