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3D Reconstruction of a Rotating Erupting Prominence
Török, T.; Thompson, W. T.; Kliem, B.
A bright prominence associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME) was seen erupting from the Sun on 9 April 2008. This prominence was tracked by both the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) EUVI and COR1 telescopes, and was seen to rotate about the line of sight as it erupted; therefore, the event has been nicknamed the "Cartwheel CME…
Predictions of Energy and Helicity in Four Major Eruptive Solar Flares
Qiu, Jiong; Longcope, Dana W.; Kazachenko, Maria D. +1 more
In order to better understand the solar genesis of interplanetary magnetic clouds (MCs), we model the magnetic and topological properties of four large eruptive solar flares and relate them to observations. We use the three-dimensional Minimum Current Corona model (Longcope, 1996, Solar Phys.169, 91) and observations of pre-flare photospheric magn…
Are Solar Active Regions with Major Flares More Fractal, Multifractal, or Turbulent Than Others?
Georgoulis, Manolis K.
Multiple recent investigations of solar magnetic-field measurements have raised claims that the scale-free (fractal) or multiscale (multifractal) parameters inferred from the studied magnetograms may help assess the eruptive potential of solar active regions, or may even help predict major flaring activity stemming from these regions. We investiga…
EUV SpectroPhotometer (ESP) in Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE): Algorithms and Calibrations
Didkovsky, L.; Jones, A.; Judge, D. +2 more
The Extreme ultraviolet SpectroPhotometer (ESP) is one of five channels of the Extreme ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) onboard the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The ESP channel design is based on a highly stable diffraction transmission grating and is an advanced version of the Solar Extreme ultraviolet Monitor (SEM), which has b…
Estimating Travel Times of Coronal Mass Ejections to 1 AU Using Multi-spacecraft Coronagraph Data
Mierla, M.; Zhukov, A. N.; Rodriguez, L. +3 more
We study the relationship between the speeds of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) obtained close to the Sun and in the interplanetary medium during the low solar-activity period from 2008 to 2010. We use a multi-spacecraft forward-modeling technique to fit a flux-rope-like model to white-light coronagraph images from the STEREO and SOHO spacecraft to …
Observations of ICMEs and ICME-like Solar Wind Structures from 2007 - 2010 Using Near-Earth and STEREO Observations
Luhmann, J. G.; Russell, C. T.; Kilpua, E. K. J. +2 more
The generally low interplanetary magnetic field magnitude around the minimum between Solar Cycles 23 and 24 (SC 23/24 minimum) allows us to identify weak and small solar wind structures. We use observations from near-Earth and twin STEREO spacecraft to study solar wind conditions from January 2007 through December 2010. In addition to 84 clear int…
Intercomparison of the LASCO-C2, SECCHI-COR1, SECCHI-COR2, and Mk4 Coronagraphs
Vourlidas, Angelos; Lamy, Philippe; Frazin, Richard A. +5 more
In order to assess the reliability and consistency of white-light coronagraph measurements, we report on quantitative comparisons between polarized brightness [pB] and total brightness [B] images taken by the following white-light coronagraphs: LASCO-C2 on SOHO, SECCHI-COR1 and -COR2 on STEREO, and the ground-based MLSO-Mk4. The data for this comp…
A Statistical Study on the Morphology of Rays and Dynamics of Blobs in the Wake of Coronal Mass Ejections
Feng, S. W.; Chen, Y.; Li, B. +4 more
In this paper, with a survey through the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) data from 1996 to 2009, we present 11 events with plasma blobs flowing outwards sequentially along a bright coronal ray in the wake of a coronal mass ejection. The ray is believed to be associated with the current-sheet structure that formed as a result of s…
Local Helioseismology of Sunspots: Current Status and Perspectives
Kosovichev, Alexander G.
Mechanisms of the formation and stability of sunspots are among the longest-standing and intriguing puzzles of solar physics and astrophysics. Sunspots are controlled by subsurface dynamics, hidden from direct observations. Recently, substantial progress in our understanding of the physics of the turbulent magnetized plasma in strong-field regions…
Granular-Scale Elementary Flux Emergence Episodes in a Solar Active Region
van Driel-Gesztelyi, L.; Bellot Rubio, L. R.; Vargas Domínguez, S.
We analyse data from Hinode spacecraft taken over two 54-minute periods during the emergence of AR 11024. We focus on small-scale portions within the observed solar active region and discover the appearance of very distinctive small-scale and short-lived dark features in Ca II H chromospheric filtergrams and Stokes I images. The features appear in…