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CME Eruption Onset Observations: Dimmings
Alphonse C. Sterling
NASA/MSFC/NSSTC
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Introduction
• Intensity “dimmings” are often associated with eruptions.
• Originally seen in white-light coronagraphs.• Recent studies: SXT, EIT, TRACE, and CDS.• One objective: Examine CME source regions.• This talk: EIT, SXT, and CDS dimmings; consider
implications for CME eruption mechanism, and consider early dimmings.
• Not a comprehensive review, => more topics for discussion.
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“Typical” (Simple) Dimming
• Roughly symmetric, double dimming pattern.• Seen in SXT and EIT (some early e.g.s,
Manoharan et al. 1996; Sterling & Hudson 1997; Hudson et al. 1998; Thompson et al. 1998, 2000; Gopalswamy et al. 1998, 2000; etc.)
• Simple pattern likely due to simple bipole magnetic geometry (details yet to be verified!).
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Thompson et al. 1998, etc.
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(Moore et al. 2001)
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Dimmings: Mass Loss or delta-T(?)
• Often due to mass loss:• Dimmings seen in both SXT and EIT (Zarro et al.
1999; Gopalswamy & Thompson 2000; Sterling & Moore 2003a).
• Evidence for outflows from dimming regions from CDS (Harra & Sterling 2001).
• More evidence from CDS (Harrison & Lyons 2000; Harrison et al. 2003; Howard & Harrison 2004).
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EUV Dimmings• Howard & Harrison (2004) looked at dimmings in
CDS and in EIT. In EIT, 5 of 9 CMEs have dimming, 4 of 9 do not have dimming (counted 9 “certain” cases with on-disk sources), => some CMEs have no EUV dimming signature.
• CDS ions: - He I: 20,000 K- Ov: 250,000 K- Mg ix: 1 MK- Fe xvi: 2 MK- Two Si x lines: 1.3 MK
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Harra & Sterling (2001)
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Dimmings and Eruption Properties
Example 1 of 3: 18 April 1999
(Sterling, Moore, & Thompson 2001;Sterling & Moore 2004a)
Will use:• Slow eruptions (combat EIT cadence).• Filament eruption events (“see” B).
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Sterling, Moore, Thompson (2001)
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Beware of False Dimmings!
• Can occur in long, fixed-dimming runs.
• Get false dimming in East, false brightening in West.
• Due to combination of solar rotation and limb brightening.
• More prominent in EIT than in SXT.
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Antiochoset al. (1999)
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EIT 195 Ang: 12:12 UT – 01:36 UT 1999 Apr 18.
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SXT AlMg: 06:00 UT – 01:37 UT 1999 Apr 18.
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Event 1 Summary
• Slow pre-eruption rise, followed by fast eruption. (Seen by many; cf. Zhang et al. 2001.)
• Main dimmings occur at fast-rise and flare onset; location consistent with base of opening field.
• Pre-eruption dimmings are weak, but show field expansion, and possible breakout signatures.
• Non-breakout explanations are possible.
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Dimmings and Eruption Properties
Example 2 of 3: 17 April 1999
(Sterling & Moore 2003)
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Event 2 Summary
• Slow pre-eruption rise, followed by fast eruption.
• Main dimmings occur at fast-rise and flare onset; consistent with base of opening fields.
• Pre-eruption dimmings exist but are weak; they show field expansion associated with slow rise.
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Dimmings and Eruption Properties
Example 3 of 3: 26 February 2000
(Sterling & Moore 2004b;Choudhary et al. 2004, this meeting)
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HXT Lo
14 – 23 keV
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Event 3 Summary
• Slow pre-eruption rise, followed by fast eruption.• Breakout-like characteristics.• Main dimmings occur at fast-rise and flare onset;
consistent with base of large cavity.• Secondary eruption initiated by first eruption
(seemingly “kicked off” by dimming).• Sets constraints on tether cutting, and could be a
model case for testing breakout.
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Early (Pre-Eruption and Pre-Flare) Strong Dimming
• A few examples of very early (pre-flare; pre-eruption) dimmings are reported.
• Gopalswamy et al. (1999) present an excellent example of a pre-flare strong dimming in both SXT and EIT; EIT dimming start (max) two hours (5 min) before GOES X1 flare onset. Is this different from other events? gopal980427__early_dim2.mpg
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Gopal’s Early-Dimming Event: Eruption Cascade?
• Activity occurs in flare region concurrent with pre-flare dimming.
• Alfven speed of 1000 km/s => travel time of about 5 min (< EIT cadence), so activity could have caused the pre-flare dimming.
• Could this be an eruption cascade?
Activity pre-flare dimming flare.
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Overall Summary• Dimmings are often a signature of mass depletion
during eruption; some CMEs have no dimming.• Nature of dimming relates to B environment.• Main dimming onset concurrent with fast-eruption (and
flare) onset.• Seemingly, dimmings can “kick start” secondary
eruptions.• Early (pre-eruption) dimmings are weak (field
expansion), or “special” (Gopal et al. e.g.).• These examples provide constraints on models.
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(Sterling et al. 2000)
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(Sterling & Moore 2004a)
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Sterling (2004)
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The amount of thermal energy (based on SXT) for one hour near Time 2 is ~ 1028 – 1029 ergs. This emission is barely visible in SXT at Time 2 (105 – 107 ergs cm-2 s-1, for a small box over the estimated duration of tether-cutting reconnection; Sterling & Moore 2003).
If the heating energy due to tether-cutting reconnection scales approximately linearly with the prominence height (gravitational energy), then expect much weaker soft X-ray emission near Time 1.
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Howard & Harrison (2004, Solar Physics)• Dimmings in CDS and in EIT.• CDS: Range of ions (He I, .02 MK; Ov, .25 MK;
Mg ix, 1 MK; Fe xvi, 2 MK; Two Si x lines, 1.3 MK).
• With EIT, 5 of 9 CMEs have dimming, 4 of 9 do not have dimming (counted 9 “certain” cases with on-disk sources), => some CMEs have no EUV dimming signature.
• Four events (out of 21 certain CMEs, some over the limb) are CDS heating or cooling (=> dimings due to temperature??).
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