The Large-Scale Source Regions of Coronal Mass Ejections

Abstract

Using the observations of LASCO aboard SOHO in the interval from Mar. 1997 to Dec. 2003, 301 earth-directed halo CMEs are selected and the source regions are located in MDI synoptic charts. A statistical analysis has been made with the emphasis on the CMEs' large-scale source regions as well as the correlation between CMEs and solar surface activity. The statistics show that CMEs are intrinsically related to surface activity. Four groups of CMEs' large-scale source structures are identified on the photosphere. They are: I, Extended bipole regions (EBRs) with long magnetic neutral line; II, Closely packed active regions (ARs); III, Large-scale magnetic flux of the same polarity runs through the opposite hemisphere, along the boundary there appears transequatorial filaments; IV, Between two EBRs with long filament. The result shows that CME-associated source activity is closely related to the types of large-scale magnetic structures.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html