EGU21-3134
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3134
EGU General Assembly 2021
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Coronal dimmings associated with coronal mass ejections on the solar limb

Galina Chikunova1, Karin Dissauer2, Tatiana Podladchikova1, and Astrid Veronig3,4
Galina Chikunova et al.
  • 1Skolkovo Institure of Science and Technology, Space Center, Russian Federation (galina.chikunova@skoltech.ru)
  • 2NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, USA
  • 3Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • 4Kanzelhohe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research, University of Graz, Treffen, Austria

We studied 43 coronal dimming events associated with Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that were observed in quasi-quadrature by the SDO and STEREO satellites. We derived the properties of the dimmings as observed above the limb by STEREO EUVI, and compared them with the mass and speed of the associated CMEs. The unique satellite constellation allowed us to compare our findings with the results from Dissauer et al. (2018, 2019), who studied these events observed against the solar disk by SDO AIA. Such statistics is done for the first time and confirms the close relation between characteristic dimming and CME parameters for the off-limb viewpoint. We find that the dimming areas are typically larger for off-limb observations (mean value of 1.24±1.23×1011 km2 against 3.51±0.71×1010 km2 for on-disk), while the decrease in the total extreme ultraviolet intensity is similar (c=0.60±0.14). The off-limb dimming areas and brightnesses are strongly correlated with the CME mass (c=0.82±0.06 and 0.75±0.08), whereas the dimming area and brightness change rate correlate with the CME speed (c∼0.6). Our findings suggest that coronal dimmings have the potential to provide early estimates of the Earth-directed CMEs parameters, relevant for space weather forecasts, for satellite locations at both L1 and L5.

How to cite: Chikunova, G., Dissauer, K., Podladchikova, T., and Veronig, A.: Coronal dimmings associated with coronal mass ejections on the solar limb, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-3134, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3134, 2021.

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