Coronal Magnetic Field Context of Simple CMEs Inferred from Global Potential Field Models |
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| Authors: | Luhmann JG Li Yan Zhao Xuepu Yashiro Seiji |
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| Institution: | (1) Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA , 94720, U.S.A;(2) Center for for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA , 94305, U.S.A;(3) The Catholic University of America, Washington DC , 20064, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | Most work on coronal mass ejection (CME) interpretation focuses on the involved active region rather than on the large-scale coronal context. In this paper a global potential-field source-surface model of the coronal magnetic field is used to evaluate the sensitivity of the coronal field configuration to the location, orientation, and strength of a bipolar active region relative to a background polar field distribution. The results suggest that the introduction of antiparallel components between the field of the active region and the background field can cause significant topological changes in the large-scale coronal magnetic field resembling observations during some simple CMEs. Antiparallel components can be introduced in the real corona by the diffusion and convection of photospheric fields, flux emergence, or erupted or shear-induced twist of active-region fields. Global MHD models with time-dependent boundary conditions could easily test the stability of such configurations and the nature of any related transients. |
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