Properties of coronal mass ejections and relationship with solar flares

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May 2002

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American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, #37.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.695

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) associated with flares are thought to be faster than those associated with filament eruptions. However, Hundhausen (1997) examined that the relationship between CME kinetic energy and X-ray flare peak intensity, and found that there is only a weak correlation. We have measured the speed, size, location, and acceleration of more than 4000 CMEs observed by the SOHO LASCO Coronagraph from January 1996 through December 2001, providing a good opportunity to revisit the relationship between CMEs and flares. We identified flare-CME pairs as follows: Since the field of view of the LASCO C2 coronagraph limited to heliocentric distances over 2 solar radii (Ro), we cannot obtain the CME start time accurately. So, we assume that the CMEs start from 1 Ro, and estimate the start time from their height-time trajectories. Then, we looked for CMEs that occurred within flare impulsive phase. This way, we found 239 flare-CME pairs. We found a weak correlation between the CME speed and flare X-ray peak flux (correlation coefficient = 0.52). When we isolated the limb events (based on the solar source of the CMEs), we found the correlation to be poorer (0.44). We compare our results with those of Hundhausen.

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