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The Influence of Coronal Background Structure with Nested and Closed Magnetic Fields on the Triggering of CME

  • CAS - National Space Science Center

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Abstract

The influence of coronal streamer background with nested and closed magnetic fields on the of the triggering of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) is investigated in the meridian plane. In the coronal streamers' background magnetic structure there are three small-scale closed magnetic fields, of which the middle one has a direction opposite to that of the global dipolar field of coronal streamers. The trigger model of CMEs emerges from beneath this small-scale closed magnetic field and possesses a concentric circular structure with radius of a = 0.1Rs (Rs being the solar radius). The direction of the magnetic field in the front half of the CME trigger model is opposite to that of the small-scale closed field and is the same as that of the streamers' global dipolar field. As revealed by numerical simulation, when the ratio of the plasma pressure at the center of the CME trigger model to the boundary pressure is m ≤ 2, then the emerging model can trigger CMEs. When m < 2, then it cannot. The error in this critical value of 2 is less than 1%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)128-136
Number of pages9
JournalChinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
Volume31
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Sun: coronal mass ejection (CME)
  • magnetohydrodynamics
  • solar wind

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