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Four Corona Mass Ejections and their Associated Surface Activity Observed on 26 October 2003
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2005
Abstract
Four coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occurs successively from the solar disk near the west limb on October 26, 2003. They, together with the associated activities of the solar surface, were observed by various instruments both in space and on ground, such as the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO), the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, and the Michelson Doppler Imager on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, as well as the Huairou Solar Observing Station and the Big Bear Solar Observatory. These four events start with a filament eruption that manifests a two-ribbon flare in a spotless region, destroyed a helmet streamer, and give rise to an X1.2 flare in the active region AR0484. We notice that these eruptions occur either in active region, or in quiescent region, or in the region without any precursors. The time profiles of the CME (filament) heights show that the main acceleration takes place within one solar radius $(R_\odot)$ from the solar surface, and that all the CMEs almost propagate at constant speeds as they appear in the field of view of LASCO C2. We conclude that the most dynamical process of each of these CMEs happens at the altitudes lower than one $R_\odot$ from the surface. Among the four activities, the fourth one comes from AR10484 and shows the largest speed projected on the sky plane, which is about 1500 km s$^{-1}$; and the first filament shows the largest acceleration, $\sim 50$m s$^{-2}$.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2004 , Issue IAUS226 , September 2004 , pp. 223 - 224
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- © 2005 International Astronomical Union
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