Sigmoid CME source regions at the Sun: some recent results
In: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Jg. 62 (2000-11-01), S. 1427-1435
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Identifying Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) precursors in the solar corona would be an important step in space weather forecasting, as well as a vital key to understanding the physics of CMEs. Twisted magnetic field structures are suspected of being the source of at least some CMEs. These features can appear sigmoid (S or inverse-S) shaped in soft X-ray (SXR) images. We review recent observations of these structures and their relation to CMEs, using soft X-ray (SXR) data from the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) on the Yohkoh satellite, and EUV data from the EUV Imaging Telescope (EIT) on the SOHO satellite. These observations indicate that the pre-eruption sigmoid patterns are more prominent in SXRs than in EUV, and that sigmoid precursors are present in over 50% of CMEs. These findings are important for CME research, and may potentially be a major component to space weather forecasting. So far, however, the studies have been subject to restrictions that will have to be relaxed before sigmoid morphology can be used as a reliable predictive tool. Moreover, some CMEs do not display a SXR sigmoid structure prior to eruption, and some others show no prominent SXR signature of any kind before or during eruption.
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Sigmoid CME source regions at the Sun: some recent results
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Sterling, Alphonse C. |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Jg. 62 (2000-11-01), S. 1427-1435 |
Veröffentlichung: | Elsevier BV, 2000 |
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ISSN: | 1364-6826 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1016/s1364-6826(00)00089-4 |
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