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New Physical Insight on the Changes in Magnetic Topology during Coronal Mass Ejections: Case Studies for the 2002 April 21 and August 24 Events

  • Authors: Ilia I. Roussev, Noé Lugaz, and Igor V. Sokolov

Roussev, Lugaz, & Sokolov 2007 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 668 L87.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 3.

Three‐dimensional structure of the stressed field lines of the evolving magnetic dipole in the case of CE1 at ﹩t=t_{S}﹩. The color code along the field lines visualizes the radial component of the current density, ﹩J_{R}﹩. The radial velocity of the erupting magnetic field is shown on a translucent plane cutting through the middle of the flux rope; the red (yellow) color corresponds to a flow velocity of the order of 1000 ﹩\mathrm{km}\,\,\mathrm{s}\,^{-1}﹩ (700 ﹩\mathrm{km}\,\,\mathrm{s}\,^{-1}﹩). The SB is shown as the yellow sphere. The flux rope in the case of CE2 looks qualitatively similar. This figure is also available as an mpeg animation.

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