correlation between halo coronal mass ejections and solar surface activity (g.zhou et al. 2003)

•Correlation between halo coronal mass ejections and solar surface activity 　 (G.Zhou et al. 2003)

太陽雑誌会　（５月１２日）　　宮腰剛広

•Three-dimensional flux rope model for coronal mass ejections based on a loss of equilibrium (Roussev et al. 2003)

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Introduction

•Statistical Study of the relation between halo coronal mass ejections and solar surface activity

•With LASCO & EIT (main) Goes, MDI, BBSO, SXT, and etc. (sub)

•The events of 1997 – 2001

Sampling the frontside CMEs (1)

•after March 1997 to 2001

•Firstly, we obtain all the halo CMEs whose angular widths are greater than 130 degree. We find 519 such halo CMEs. •Secondary, with EIT movies and EIT running difference (RD) movies to check whether these halo CMEs have counterparts on the visible solar disk. Here two criteria are used to identify frontside halo CMEs.

1. the surface activity starts in the time window TM-30 --- TM+30 min

2. the position of solar surface activity (with EIT) is under the span of the associating CME

Sampling the frontside CMEs (2)

PSSA

If a CME's SRPA is within the range of the CME's span, the second criterion is satisfied.

•If a CME is associated with such surface activity which satisfies the above two criteria, we identify the CME as frontside one.

197 events

Grouping the surface activity(1)

•we only take two primary forms of solar activity, the flares and filament eruptions, into account

•To identify associated flares, (with EIT & SPIDR) If a flare seen in EIT images takes place within the duration of a X-ray burst and their position difference is within the range of -5 --- +5 degree in both the latitude and longitude, we regard the two sets of observations as the same event

•With regard to the events not listed in X-ray flare categories, If (increased intensity / background intensity) > 50%, we classify it as a flare

about Flares


about Filament Eruptions•We adopt two criteria in identifying a filament eruption.

1. dark and/or bright plasma ejecta, which is an empirical criterion proposed by Subramanian & Dere (2001)

2. appearance of two flaring ribbons and post-flare loops, which is suggested by this paper.

•we only group the solar surface activity into the following three categories:

A(a)-Flares with obvious filament eruptions

B-Filament eruptions with too little brightening to be termed flares.

A(b)-Flares which may have been preceded by filament eruptions but cannot be confirmed by the available data base;


• about symmetry,

If the difference between SRPA and CPA or PA (to 360 degree halo CMEs) of a CME is not greater than 20, we define the event as symmetric, or else it is asymmetric.

Example (1) 2001 Jan 20 CME

A typical example of A(a)

•start time: near 18:36 UT

•average speed : 839 km/s

•Fig 2B : BBSO H-alpha a filament lay in the AR9313 at 08:04 UT before the initial CME time•Fig 2C : MDI•Fig 2DEF : EIT (M1.2 flare)

D) bright and dark ejectaE) two ribbonsF) post flare loops this is eruptive flare

•PA --- 64 deg, SRPA --- 100 deg, asymmetric event

Example (2) 2001 Apr 6 CME

A typical example of A(b)



•Fig 3C : H-alpha filament exists

•Fig 3DEF : EIT (X5.6 flare)

E) running difference propagating dimming

•PA --- 147 deg, SRPA --- 115 deg, asymmetric event

•we cannot ascertain whether the filament erupted

Example (3) 2000 May 8 CME

A typical example of B



•Fig 4B : BBSO H-alpha

•Fig 4C : MDI

•Fig 4DEF : EIT development of filament eruption no corresponding Goes X-ray flare

•CPA --- 216 deg, SRPA --- 210 deg, symmetric event

Statistical results(1)•Table 2

•Most of these events except for 32 events in Category A(a) and A(b) have flare records in GOES X ray. Those 32 events whose intensity increase are greater than 50%, as defined in Sect. 2.3, were also regarded as flare events.

•Filament eruption : EIT, BBSO, HAFB, HSOS, etc.

•at least 94.4% are associated with filament eruption

Statistical results(2)•Table 3

•The other 322 CMEs are not all from the backside. There are two reasons for us to exclude these 322 CMEs. 1.Some CMEs with high cadence EIT data are excluded because no associated activity was observed on the visible disk. Those CMEs may not include frontside ones, 2.the others with low cadence or no EIT data that are excluded may include some frontside ones. only two conditions exist, frontside and backside, thus half of the CME events should belong to the frontside, that is to say, 259 CMEs are possible. We find 76% (197/259) CMEs to be associated with surface activity, which is higher than that of most previous statistical results.

•among 141 CMEs associated with GOES X-ray flares, 83 CME initiations are seen to precede flare onset, while the other 58 are the opposite

Concluding remarks•173(88%) associated with flares, 187(94%) with filament eruptions •79% whose source regions are inside active regions, 21% outside•about 50 % symmetric

The model of theTitov & Demoulin (1999)

•two point magnetic charges buried at a 　 depth z = -d below the surface and 　ｌ ocated at x = ±L.

•long line current, I0, that coincides with 　 the x-axis and also lies below the 　 photosphere at depth d

•unstable if the large radius, R, of the flux 　 rope exceeds root 2L, where L is half the 　 distance between the background 　 sources ±q.

•force-free limit, gas is hydrostatic　 (photosphere – transition – corona)

initial conditioncolor : magnetic fields intensity

•ideal MHD, BATS-R-US method, with AMR (about 7M mesh)

•boundary: highly conducting (z=0) outflow side (x,y) open (z=zmax)

•Three-dimensional flux rope model for coronal 　 mass ejections 　 based on a loss of equilibrium 　 (Roussev et al. 2003)

t=35 min. (isosurface shows current density)magnetic fields exists outerby I, so the flux rope cannnotescape but stop

The velocity of the O-point is decelerated (not escape case)

Fig.2

Fig.3

about 17% of magnetic energy is converted into thermal and kinetic energy (t=19)

The most plausible explanation of this structure is that there is an interchange reconnection between the highly twisted field lines of the flux rope and the overlying closed field lines from the ±q sources. As a result of this process, the newly created closed field lines connect the two flux regions.

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