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Energetics and Propagation of Coronal Mass Ejections in Different Plasma Environments

Lin, Jun

Based on previous work, we investigate the propagation of CMEs in a more realistic plasma environment than the isothermal atmosphere, and find that it is a slightly faster reconnection for flux ropes to break free. The average Alfvén Mach number M_A for the inflow into the reconnection site has to be at least 0.013 in order to give a pla…