An Insight into the Coupling of CME Kinematics in Inner and Outer Corona and the Imprint of Source Regions

Abstract

Abstract Despite studying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) for several years, we do not yet have a complete understanding of their kinematics. To this end, it is essential to understand the change in kinematics of the CMEs as they travel from the inner corona (<3 R ⊙) up to the higher heights of the outer corona. We conduct a follow-up statistical study of several 3D kinematic parameters of 59 CMEs previously studied by Majumdar et al. (2020). The source regions of these CMEs are identified and classified as active regions (ARs), active prominences (APs), or prominence eruptions (PEs). We study several statistical correlations between different kinematic parameters of the CMEs. We show that the CMEs’ average kinematic parameters change as they propagate from the inner to the outer corona, indicating the importance of a region where the common practice is to perform averaging. We also find that the CME parameters in the outer corona are highly influenced by those in the inner corona, indicating the importance of the inner corona in the understanding of the kinematics. Furthermore, we find that the source regions of the CMEs tend to have a distinct imprint on the statistical correlations between different kinematic parameters, and that an overall correlation tends to wash away this crucial information. The results of this work supports the possibility of different dynamical classes for the CMEs from ARs and prominences, which gets manifested in their kinematics.