caa a22 4500 44534721X CHVBK 20180317142832.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11207-011-9853-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11207-011-9853-z Distributions of Energy and Mass of Coronal Mass Ejections [Elektronische Daten] [P. Gao, K. Li, J. Xu] The present study investigates the energy and mass distributions of all (11 322) coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 1406 CMEs associated solely with flares (FL CMEs), and 325 CMEs associated solely with filament eruptions (FE CMEs), all of which were observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO/LASCO) from January 1996 to December 2009. The results show the following. i)The mean energy of FL CMEs is significantly lower than that of all CMEs. The mean energy of FE CMEs is significantly higher than those of FL CMEs and all CMEs. ii)The mean mass of FL CMEs is slightly larger than that of all CMEs. The mean mass of FE CMEs is significantly larger than those of FL CMEs and all CMEs. Our results suggest that CMEs should shed excess helicity stored in the corona and that the magnetic complexity determines the likelihood of CMEs. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Methods: data analysis nationallicence Sun: coronal mass ejections nationallicence Sun: filaments nationallicence Sun: flares nationallicence Gao P. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut Li K. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut Xu J. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut Solar Physics Springer Netherlands 273/1(2011-10-01), 117-123 0038-0938 273:1<117 2011 273 11207 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-011-9853-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-011-9853-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gao P. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li K. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xu J. National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 650011, Kunming, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Solar Physics Springer Netherlands 273/1(2011-10-01), 117-123 0038-0938 273:1<117 2011 273 11207 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer