The Association of Solar Flares with Coronal Mass Ejections During the Extended Solar Minimum |
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| Authors: | N V Nitta M J Aschwanden S L Freeland J R Lemen J-P Wülser D M Zarro |
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| Institution: | 1. Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, A021S, Building 252, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA
2. ADNET, Systems, Inc., and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, 20771, USA
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| Abstract: | We study the association of solar flares with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) during the deep, extended solar minimum of 2007?–?2009, using extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) and white-light (coronagraph) images from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO). Although all of the fast (v>900 km?s?1), wide (θ>100°) CMEs are associated with a flare that is at least identified in GOES soft X-ray light curves, a majority of flares with relatively high X-ray intensity for the deep solar minimum (e.g. ?1×10?6 W?m?2 or C1) are not associated with CMEs. Intense flares tend to occur in active regions with a strong and complex photospheric magnetic field, but the active regions that produce CME-associated flares tend to be small, including those that have no sunspots and therefore no NOAA active-region numbers. Other factors on scales similar to and larger than active regions seem to exist that contribute to the association of flares with CMEs. We find the possible low coronal signatures of CMEs, namely eruptions, dimmings, EUV waves, and Type III bursts, in 91 %, 74 %, 57 %, and 74 %, respectively, of the 35 flares that we associate with CMEs. None of these observables can fully replace direct observations of CMEs by coronagraphs. |
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