What is it about?

Active regions surrounding sunspots tend to erupt when their magnetic fields become highly stressed. In this paper, we try to relate different parameters that are stress indicators to see which of these are better related to the speed of the ejected material resulting from the eruption.

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Why is it important?

This work appears at a time when the community is grappling with the issue of identifying the drivers of these ejections. Since it is a comprehensive study of several active regions and several parameters, it will be very useful for other investigators.

Perspectives

Although it is a statistical study, it shows the way forward for physical studies involving modelling.

Professor Parameswaran Venkatakrishnan
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This page is a summary of: Near-Sun speed of CMEs and the magnetic nonpotentiality of their source active regions, Geophysical Research Letters, July 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU),
DOI: 10.1002/2015gl064865.
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