Plasma motion in crossed fields and halo-type coronal mass ejections

Autor: M. M. Molodenskii, N. S. Shilova
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Astronomy Reports. 46:591-596
ISSN: 1562-6881
1063-7729
DOI: 10.1134/1.1495035
Popis: Halo-type motions of plasma in the solar corona—so-called coronal mass ejections (CME)—are considered. This type of CME is relatively rare due to the requirement for a particular orientation of the magnetic-moment vector M (parallel to the line of sight). Variations in |M| may be due to the rapid motion of filaments with a characteristic time scale ≅103 s. The drifts in the crossed fields have speeds of ≅200–1000 km/s and can account for the basic features of the CME geometry.
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