HR: 08:35h
AN: SH11C-03    [Abstracts]
TI: Acceleration and Thermal Energy Release in a CME Model
AU: * Reeves, K K
EM: kreeves@unh.edu
AF: Institute for Earth, Oceans ans Space, University of New Hampshire, 39 College Rd, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AB: We examine the relationship between the acceleration of the flux rope and the thermal energy release rate in a loss-of-equilibrium model of coronal mass ejections. We find that the correlation between thermal energy release rate and flux rope acceleration is good for cases where the background magnetic field is high and the reconnection rate is fast, but that the correlation is poor for cases with low background magnetic fields and slow reconnection rates. Thus, though reconnection plays an important role in both the acceleration of the flux rope and the thermal energy release rate, it does not always affect these quantities in the same way.
DE: 7513 Coronal mass ejections (2101)
DE: 7524 Magnetic fields
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005