On coronal streamer changes Original Research Article

Coronal streamer represents one of the pre-eruption configurations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), because they overlie prominences and often possess all the substructures of CMEs. In this paper, we report on a study of streamer changes associated with prominence eruptions. The prominence eruptions and streamer changes were observed by the Nobeyama radioheliograph and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), respectively. Multiwavelength data showed that at least one of the streamer events involved heating and small-scale material ejection that subsequently stalled. After presenting illustrative examples, we compare the properties of the streamer-related events with those of general population of prominence events. We find that the properties of streamer-related prominence events are closer to those of prominence eruptions with transverse trajectories.