Plasma Heating During Coronal Mass Ejections

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May 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21822416m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #224.16; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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Several recent observational results suggest that coronal mass ejection (CME) plasma is heated even after leaving the flare site. The source of the heating is probably the magnetic field of the erupting flux rope, but the mechanisms that convert magnetic to thermal energy during these events are not well understood. By performing a time-dependent ionization analysis on CMEs observed by SOHO/UVCS, we assess the efficacy of several candidate heating mechanisms, including heating by the CME current sheet, kink/tearing instabilities of the flux rope, turbulence, thermal conduction, energetic particles, and wave heating.

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