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Title: | Temperature and Thermal Energy of a Coronal Mass Ejection | Authors: | BEMPORAD, Alessandro | Issue Date: | 2022 | Journal: | SYMMETRY | Number: | 14 | Issue: | 3 | First Page: | 468 | Abstract: | Due to the scarcity of UV–EUV observations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) far from the Sun (i.e., at heliocentric distances larger than 1.5 Rsun) our understanding of the thermodynamic evolution of these solar phenomena is still very limited. This work focuses on the analysis of a slow CME observed at the same time and in the same coronal locations in visible light (VL) by the MLSO Mark IV polarimeter and in the UV Lyman-α by the SOHO UVCS spectrometer. The eruption was observed at two different heliocentric distances (1.6 and 1.9 Rsun), making this work a test case for possible future multi-slit observations of solar eruptions. The analysis of combined VL and UV data allows the determination of 2D maps of the plasma electron density and also the plasma electron temperature, thus allowing the quantification of the distribution of the thermal energy density. The results show that the higher temperatures in the CME front are due to simple adiabatic compression of pre-CME plasma, while the CME core has a higher temperature with respect to the surrounding CME void and front. Despite the expected adiabatic cooling, the CME core temperatures increased between 1.6 and 1.9 Rsun from 2.4 MK up to 3.2 MK, thus indicating the presence of plasma heating processes occurring during the CME expansion. The 2D distribution of thermal energy also shows a low level of symmetry with respect to the CME propagation axis, possibly related with the CME interaction with nearby coronal structures. This work demonstrates the potential of UV and VL data combination and also of possible future multi-slit spectroscopic observations of CMEs. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31812 | URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/468 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85125676574 |
ISSN: | 2073-8994 | DOI: | 10.3390/sym14030468 | Fulltext: | open |
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