Coronal dimmings associated with coronal mass ejections on the solar limb

Abstract

We present a statistical analysis of 43 coronal dimming events, associated with Earth-directed CMEs that occurred during the period of quasi-quadrature of the SDO and STEREO satellites. We studied coronal dimmings that were observed above the limb by STEREO/EUVI and compared their properties with the mass and speed of the associated CMEs. The unique position of satellites allowed us to compare our findings with the results from Dissauer et al. (2018b, 2019), who studied the same events observed against the solar disk by SDO/AIA. Such statistics is done for the first time and confirms the relation of coronal dimmings and CME parameters for the off-limb viewpoint. The observations of dimming regions from different lines-of-sight reveal a similar decrease in the total EUV intensity ($c=0.60\pm 0.14$). We find that the (projected) dimming areas are typically larger for off-limb observations (mean value of $1.24\pm 1.23\times 10^{11}$ km${}^2$ against $3.51\pm 0.71\times 10^{10}$ km${}^2$ for on-disk), with a correlation of $c=0.63\pm 0.10$. This systematic difference can be explained by the (weaker) contributions to the dimming regions higher up in the corona, that cannot be detected in the on-disk observations. The off-limb dimming areas and brightnesses show very strong correlations with the CME mass ($c=0.82\pm 0.06$ and $c=0.75\pm 0.08$), whereas the dimming area and brightness change rate correlate with the CME speed ($c\sim 0.6$). Our findings suggest that coronal dimmings have the potential to provide early estimates of mass and speed of Earth-directed CMEs, relevant for space weather forecasts, for satellite locations both at L1 and L5.

arXiv comment26 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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