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Large amounts of coronal material are propelled outward into interplanetary space by Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). Thus one might expect to find evidence for expanding flux ropes in the solar wind as well. To prove this assumption magnetic clouds were analyzed and correlated with Hα-observations of disappearing filaments. When clouds were found to be directly associated with a disappearing filament, the magnetic structure of the cloud was compared with that of the associated filament. Additionally the expansion of magnetic clouds was examined over a wide range of the heliosphere and compared with the expansion observed for erupting prominences.
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Bothmer, V., Schwenn, R. Eruptive prominences as sources of magnetic clouds in the solar wind. Space Sci Rev 70, 215–220 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00777872
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