The CME dynamics associated to the prominence eruption of December 2, 2003

Abstract

We report on a complex study of a typical large W-limb CME event occurring on December 2, 2003 in the vicinity of AR 0508. It is associated with a prominence eruption which has been observed with the Pic du Midi Ha flux coronagraph as well as in EUV by both the SOHO/EIT and the Coronas/SPIRIT space telescopes. The eruption started with the emergence of a fast expanding loop between 9 and 10 UT, followed by a heating and an acceleration of the erupted material and resulted in three-part CME observed by LASCO after 10:50 UT. A temporal analysis of the prominence motion and the EUV dimming light curve have shown that both the frontal structure and the core of a CME were initiated simultaneously with the peak of the X-ray C7.2 flare. The total mass of the prominence including the H$\alpha$ filament and EUV filament channel is close to the mass of the core but significantly less than the total CME mass.