Solar and heliospheric observatory observations of a helical coronal mass ejection

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作者
Ciaravella, A
Raymond, JC
Thompson, BJ
van Ballegooijen, A
Strachan, L
Li, J
Gardner, L
O'Neal, R
Antonucci, E
Kohl, J
Noci, G
机构
[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Dipartimento Sci Fis & Astron, I-90134 Palermo, Italy
[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[4] Osservatorio Astron Torino, I-10125 Pino Torinese, Italy
[5] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Astron & Sci Spazio, I-50125 Florence, Italy
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Sun : corona; Sun : prominences; Sun : UV radiation;
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10.1086/308260
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
The EUV Imaging Telescope (EIT), Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO), and Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) instruments aboard the SOHO satellite observed a prominence eruption (coronal mass ejection) on 1997 December 12. Ejected plasma moved at about 130 km s(-1) in the plane of the sky and showed Doppler shifts between -350 and +30 km s(-1). The eruption appeared as a strongly curved arch in EIT images low in the corona. Emission in ions ranging from Si III to O VI in the UVCS spectra indicates a temperature range between 10(4.5) and 10(5.5) K. The morphology of the bright emission regions seen by all three instruments suggests several strands of a helical structure of moderate pitch angle. A reasonable fit to the spatial structure and the velocity evolution measured by UVCS is provided by a left-handed helix untwisting at a rate of about 9 x 10(-4) radians s(-1).
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