caa a22 4500 445345683 CHVBK 20180317142828.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11207-010-9672-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11207-010-9672-7 Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections: AStatistically Determined Flare Flux - CME Mass Correlation [Elektronische Daten] [A. Aarnio, K. Stassun, W. Hughes, S. McGregor] In an effort to examine the relationship between flare flux and corresponding CME mass, we temporally and spatially correlate all X-ray flares and CMEs in the LASCO and GOES archives from 1996 to 2006. We cross-reference 6733 CMEs having well-measured masses against 12 050 X-ray flares having position information as determined from their optical counterparts. For a given flare, we search in time for CMEs which occur 10 - 80minutes afterward, and we further require the flare and CME to occur within ± 45° in position angle on the solar disk. There are 826 CME/flare pairs which fit these criteria. Comparing the flare fluxes with CME masses of these paired events, we find CME mass increases with flare flux, following an approximately log-linear, broken relationship: in the limit of lower flare fluxes, log (CME mass)∝0.68×log (flare flux), and in the limit of higher flare fluxes, log (CME mass)∝0.33×log (flare flux). We show that this broken power-law, and in particular the flatter slope at higher flare fluxes, may be due to an observational bias against CMEs associated with the most energetic flares: halo CMEs. Correcting for this bias yields a single power-law relationship of the form log (CME mass)∝0.70×log (flare flux). This function describes the relationship between CME mass and flare flux over at least 3dex in flare flux, from ≈ 10−7 - 10−4W m−2. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Coronal mass ejections nationallicence Flares nationallicence Aarnio A. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 1807, 37235, Nashville, TN, USA aut Stassun K. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 1807, 37235, Nashville, TN, USA aut Hughes W. Department of Astronomy and Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA aut McGregor S. Department of Astronomy and Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA aut Solar Physics Springer Netherlands 268/1(2011-01-01), 195-212 0038-0938 268:1<195 2011 268 11207 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-010-9672-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-010-9672-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aarnio A. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 1807, 37235, Nashville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stassun K. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 1807, 37235, Nashville, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hughes W. Department of Astronomy and Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McGregor S. Department of Astronomy and Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Solar Physics Springer Netherlands 268/1(2011-01-01), 195-212 0038-0938 268:1<195 2011 268 11207 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer