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CMEs and Prominences and their Evolution Over the Solar Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David F. Webb
David F. Webb*
Affiliation:
Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3862, USA

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are an important aspect of coronal and interplanetary dynamics. They cause large geomagnetic storms and can drive transient interplanetary shocks, which in turn are a key source of energetic particle events. However, our knowledge of the origins and early development of CMEs at the Sun is limited. CMEs are most frequently associated with erupting prominences and long-enduring soft X-ray arcades, but sometimes with no observed surface activity. I review some of the well determined coronal properties of CMEs and what we know about their source regions, with emphasis on the characteristics of the associated prominences and helmet streamers. One of these characteristics is that many CMEs seem to arise from multipolar magnetic structures with multiple or kinked inversion lines. I also discuss the solar-cycle dependencies of these structures, including the role that erupting prominences and CMEs may play in the ejection of magnetic flux and helicity from the Sun.

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Global Patterns
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International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 167: New Perspectives on Solar Prominences , 1998 , pp. 463 - 474
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1998

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