Speed Distributions of CMEs in Cycle 23 at Low and High Latitudes |
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| Authors: | Peng-Xin Gao Ke-Jun Li |
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| Institution: | [1]National Astronomical Observatories / Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011 ; [2]GraduateSchool of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 |
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| Abstract: | We analyzed the speed (v) distributions of 11584 coronal mass ejections (CMEs) observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/LASCO) in cycle 23 from 1996 to 2006. We find that the speed distributions for high-latitude (HL) and low-latitude (LL) CME events are nearly identical and to a good approximation they can be fitted with a lognormal distribution. This finding implies that statistically the same driving mechanism of a nonlinear nature is acting in both HL and LL CME events, and CMEs are intrinsically associated with the source's magnetic structure on large spatial scales. Statistically, the HL CMEs are slightly slower than the LL CMEs. For HL and LL CME events respectively, the speed distributions for accelerating and decelerating events are nearly identical and also to a good approximation they can be both fitted with a lognormal distribution, thus supplementing the results obtained by Yurchyshyn et al. |
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| Keywords: | Sun: activity - Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs) |
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