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Chiuderi Drago F. Alissandrakis C.E. Bastian T. Bocchialini K. Harrison R.A. 《Solar physics》2001,199(1):115-132
In this paper we compare simultaneous extreme ultraviolet (EUV) line intensity and microwave observations of a filament on the disk. The EUV line intensities were observed by the CDS and SUMER instruments on board SOHO and the radio data by the Very Large Array and the Nobeyama radioheliograph. The main results of this study are the following: (1) The Lyman continuum absorption is responsible for the lower intensity observed above the filament in the EUV lines formed in the transition region (TR) at short wavelengths. In the TR lines at long wavelengths the filament is not visible. This indicates that the proper emission of the TR at the filament top is negligible. (2) The lower intensity of coronal lines and at radio wave lengths is due to the lack of coronal emission: the radio data supply the height of the prominence, while EUV coronal lines supply the missing hot matter emission measure (EM). (3) Our observations support a prominence model of cool threads embedded in the hot coronal plasma, with a sheath-like TR around them. From the missing EM we deduce the TR thickness and from the neutral hydrogen column density, derived from the Lyman continuum and Hei absorption, we estimate the hydrogen density in the cool threads. 相似文献
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A large filament was observed during a multi-wavelength coordinated campaign on June 19, 1998 in the Hα line with the Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope (SVST) at La Palma, in the coronal lines Fe ix/x 171 Å and Fe xi 195 Å with the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) and in EUV lines with the SOHO/CDS spectrometer and the hydrogen Lyman series with the SOHO/SUMER spectrometer. Because of its high-latitude location, it is possible to disentangle the physical properties of the Hα filament and the filament channel seen in EUV lines. TRACE images point out a dark region fitting the Hα fine-structure threads and a dark corridor (filament channel), well extended south of the magnetic inversion line. A similar pattern is observed in the CDS EUV-line images. The opacity of the hydrogen and helium resonance continua at 171 Å is almost two orders of magnitude lower than that at the Hi head (912 Å) and thus similar to the opacity of the Hα line. Since we do not see the filament channel in Hα, this would imply that it should also be invisible in TRACE lines. Thus, the diffuse dark corridor is interpreted as due to the coronal ‘volume blocking’ by a cool plasma which extends to large altitudes. Such extensions were also confirmed by computing the heights from the projection geometry and by simulations of the CDS and TRACE line intensities using the spectroscopic model of EUV filaments (Heinzel, Anzer, and Schmieder, 2003). Finally, our NLTE analysis of selected hydrogen Lyman lines observed by SUMER also leads to a conclusion that the dark filament channel is due to a presence of relatively cool plasma having low densities and being distributed at altitudes reaching the Hα filament. 相似文献
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In this paper we discuss the two mechanisms by which solar prominences on the limb can manifest themselves when observed in
coronal UV – EUV lines and in the soft X-ray continuum. These mechanisms are the absorption in the resonance continua of hydrogen
and helium on one hand and the reduction of the emissivity in a part of the coronal volume occupied by a prominence on the
other one. We briefly describe earlier observations made with SOHO/SUMER, EIT and Yohkoh/SXT. We then discuss how the instruments on the new Japanese satellite Hinode can be used for more detailed studies of prominences. We also propose some combined observations between the Hinode satellite and the SOHO/SUMER instrument. 相似文献
4.
The heights of formation of a number of extreme ultraviolet lines in active regions have been measured from OSO-IV spectroheliograms. Using the Lyman continuum at 2000 km above the white light limb as a reference, we find heights for Hei, Heii, Ciii, Niii, Oiv, Ovi, Neviii, Mgx, Sixii, Fexv and Fexvi that are in approximate agreement with models based on analysis of EUV emission intensities. The height of Cii is anomalously high. The accuracy of measurement is typically about 2000 km. The data suggest that the transition zone is less steep than calculated from EUV emission intensities; however, higher resolution observations are necessary to resolve the discrepancy. 相似文献
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A?filament and its channel close to the solar disk were observed in the complete hydrogen Lyman spectrum, and in several EUV lines by the SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurement of Emitted Radiation) and CDS (Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer) spectrographs on the SoHO satellite, and in H?? by ground-based telescopes during a multi-instrument campaign in May 2005. It was a good opportunity to get an overview of the volume and the density of the cold plasma in the filament channel; these are essential parameters for coronal mass ejections. We found that the width of the filament depends on the wavelength in which the filament is observed (around 15?arcsec in H??, 30?arcsec in L??, and 60?arcsec in EUV). In L?? the filament is wider than in H?? because cool plasma, not visible in H??, is optically thick at the L?? line center, and its presence blocks the coronal emission. We have derived physical plasma properties of this filament fitting the Lyman spectra and H?? profiles by using a 1D isobaric NLTE model. The vertical temperature profile of the filament slab is flat (T??7000?K) with an increase to ???20?000?K at the top and the bottom of the slab. From an analysis of the L?? and H?? source functions we have concluded that these lines are formed over the whole filament slab. We have estimated the geometrical filling factor in the filament channel. Its low value indicates the presence of multi-threads. 相似文献
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During several campaigns focused on prominences we have obtained coordinated spectral observations from the ground and from
space. The SOHO/SUMER spectrometer allows us to observe, among others, the whole Lyman series of hydrogen, while the Hα line was observed by the MSDP spectrograph at the VTT. For the Lyman lines, non-LTE radiative-transfer computations have
shown the importance of the optical thickness of the prominence – corona transition region (PCTR) and its relation to the
magnetic field orientation for the explanation of the observed line profiles. Moreover, Heinzel, Anzer, and Gunár (2005, Astron. Astrophys.
442, 331) developed a 2D magnetostatic model of prominence fine structures that demonstrates how the shapes of Lyman lines vary,
depending on the orientation of the magnetic field with respect to the line of sight. To support this result observationally,
we focus here on a round-shaped filament observed during three days as it was crossing the limb. The Lyman profiles observed
on the limb are different from day to day. We interpret these differences as being due to the change of orientation of the
prominence axis (and therefore the magnetic field direction) with respect to the line of sight. The Lyman lines are more reversed
if the line of sight is across the prominence axis as compared to the case when it is aligned along its axis. 相似文献
7.
K. P. Raju 《Solar physics》2010,262(1):61-69
Intensity distributions of the EUV network and the cell interior in the solar atmosphere have been obtained in fourteen emission
lines from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)/Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS) observations. The formation temperature of the observed lines is in the range
log T=4.90 – 6.06 (T in Kelvin), and hence they represent increasing heights in the solar atmosphere from the upper chromosphere and the transition
region to the low corona. Intensity distributions of the cell interior have been found to be different in the quiet Sun and
the coronal hole even at the lower transition region, which is at variance with some earlier results. The intensity contrast
of the network with respect to the cell interior has been obtained for each line, and differences in the quiet Sun and the
coronal hole have been examined. The network contrast, in general, is lower for the coronal hole as compared to the quiet
Sun, but becomes equal to it in the upper transition region. The maximum contrast for both the regions is at about log T=5.3. Also obtained are the relative contributions of the network and the cell interior to the total intensity. The implications
of the results for models of the transition region are briefly mentioned. 相似文献
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In this study, we present the three-dimensional (3D) configuration of a filament observed by STEREO and the Global High Resolution H-alpha Network (GHN) in EUV 304 Å and Hα line center, respectively. This was the largest filament located close to the active region NOAA 10956 that produced a small B9.6 flare and two Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) on 19 May 2007. The 3D coordinates of multiple points traced along this filament were reconstructed by triangulation from two different aspect angles. The two STEREO (A and B) spacecraft had a separation angle α of 8.6 degree on 19 May 2007. The “true” heights of the filament were estimated using STEREO images in EUV 304 and Hα images, respectively. Our results show that EUV emission of the filament originates from higher locations than the Hα emission. We also compare the measured reconstructed heights of the filaments in EUV with those reported in previous studies. 相似文献
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We consider the physical origin of the hemispheric pattern of filament chirality on the Sun. Our 3D simulations of the coronal
field evolution over a period of six months, based on photospheric magnetic measurements, were previously shown to be highly
successful at reproducing observed filament chiralities. In this paper we identify and describe the physical mechanisms responsible
for this success. The key mechanisms are found to be (1) differential rotation of north – south polarity inversion lines,
(2) the shape of bipolar active regions, and (3) evolution of skew over a period of many days. As on the real Sun, the hemispheric
pattern in our simulations holds in a statistical sense. Exceptions arise naturally for filaments in certain locations relative
to bipolar active regions or from interactions among a number of active regions. 相似文献
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Using data from the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), and Hida Observatory (HO), we present a detailed study of an EUV jet and the associated Hα filament eruption in
a major flare in the active region NOAA 10044 on 29 July 2002. In the Hα line wings, a small filament was found to erupt out
from the magnetic neutral line of the active region during the flare. Two bright EUV loops were observed rising and expanding
with the filament eruption, and both hot and cool EUV plasma ejections were observed to form the EUV jet. The two thermal
components spatially separated from each other and lasted for about 25 minutes. In the white-light corona data, a narrow coronal
mass ejection (CME) was found to respond to this EUV jet. We cannot find obvious emerging flux in the photosphere accounting
for the filament eruption and the EUV jet. However, significant sunspot decay and magnetic-flux cancelation owing to collision
of opposite flux before the events were noticed. Based on the hard X-ray data from RHESSI, which showed evidence of magnetic
reconnection along the main magnetic neutral line, we think that all of the observed dynamical phenomena, including the EUV
jet, filament eruption, flare, and CME, should have a close relation to the flux cancelation in the low atmosphere. 相似文献
11.
Markus J. Aschwanden 《Solar physics》2005,228(1-2):339-358
EUV images show the solar corona in a typical temperature range of T >rsim 1 MK, which encompasses the most common coronal structures: loops, filaments, and other magnetic structures in active regions,
the quiet Sun, and coronal holes. Quantitative analysis increasingly demands automated 2D feature recognition and 3D reconstruction,
in order to localize, track, and monitor the evolution of such coronal structures. We discuss numerical tools that “fingerprint”
curvi-linear 1D features (e.g., loops and filaments). We discuss existing finger-printing algorithms, such as the brightness-gradient
method, the oriented-connectivity method, stereoscopic methods, time-differencing, and space–time feature recognition. We
discuss improved 2D feature recognition and 3D reconstruction techniques that make use of additional a priori constraints, using guidance from magnetic field extrapolations, curvature radii constraints, and acceleration and velocity
constraints in time-dependent image sequences. Applications of these algorithms aid the analysis of SOHO/EIT, TRACE, and STEREO/SECCHI
data, such as disentangling, 3D reconstruction, and hydrodynamic modeling of coronal loops, postflare loops, filaments, prominences,
and 3D reconstruction of the coronal magnetic field in general. 相似文献
12.
We revisit the flare that occurred on 13 January 1992, which is now universally termed the “Masuda flare”. The new analysis
is motivated not just by its uniqueness despite the increasing number of coronal observations in hard X-rays, but also by
the improvement of Yohkoh hard X-ray image processing, which was achieved after the intensive investigations on this celebrated event. Using an uncertainty
analysis, we show that the hard X-ray coronal source is located closer to the soft X-ray loop by about 5000 km (or 7 arcsec)
in the re-calibrated Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT) images than in the original ones. Specifically, the centroid of the M1-band
(23 – 33 keV) coronal source is above the maximum brightness of the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) loop by 5000±1000 km (9600
km in the original data) and above the apex of the SXT loop represented by the 30% brightness contour by 2000±1000 km (∼ 7000 km
in the original data). The change is obviously significant, because most coronal sources are above the thermal loop by less
than 6 arcsec. We suggest that this change may account for the discrepancy in the literature, i.e., the spectrum of the coronal emission was reported to be extremely hard below ∼ 20 keV in the pre-calibration investigations,
whereas it was reported to be considerably softer in the literature after the re-calibration done by Sato, Kosugi, and Makishima
(Pub. Astron. Soc. Japan
51, 127, 1999). Still, the coronal spectrum is flatter at lower energies than at higher energies, due to the lack of a similar, co-spatial
source in the L-band (14 – 23 keV), for which a convincing explanation is absent. 相似文献
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Brigitte Schmieder Nicole Mein Yuanyong Deng Cristiana Dumitrache Jean-Marie Malherbe Joachim Staiger E. E. Deluca 《Solar physics》2004,223(1-2):119-141
This paper is focused on the formation of two filaments in a complex center of decaying active regions (AR 8329 and AR 8326), located in the northern hemisphere. The observations were obtained in Hα by the Multi-channel Subtractive Double Pass spectrograph (MSDP mounted on the German telescope VTT in Tenerife) and EUV lines with TRACE (Transition Region And Corona Explorer). High Doppler shifts are found to be related to the ends of filament segments where canceling magnetic fields are also located (as seen on magnetograms from Big Bear Solar Observatory). At these locations, velocities along the line of sight, derived by using a cloud model method reach −20 km s−1, the segments of filaments merge and frequently a time-related sub-flare is observed by TRACE. The chirality of the filament segments has been determined by different methods: the segments of dextral chirality join together and form a long dextral filament, and a single filament of sinistral chirality forms end to end with the dextral filament but does not merge with it. Assuming a model of twisted flux tube for filament material, we suggest that the dextral filament has negative helicity and a relationship between its formation and the close by sunspot with the same sign of helicity. 相似文献
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We study the topology of the 3D magnetic field in a filament channel to address the following questions: Is a filament always formed in a single flux tube? How does the photospheric magnetic field lead to filament interruptions and to feet formation? What is the relation between feet-related field lines and the parasitic polarities? What can topological analyses teach us about EUV filament channels? To do so, we consider a filament observed on 6 October 2004 with THEMIS/MTR, in Hα with the full line profile simultaneously and cospatially with its photospheric vector magnetic field. The coronal magnetic field was calculated from a “linear magnetohydrostatic” extrapolation of a composite THEMIS-MDI magnetogram. Its free parameters were adjusted to get the best match possible between the distribution of modeled plasma-supporting dips and the Hα filament morphology. The model results in moderate plasma β≤1 at low altitudes in the filament, in conjunction with non-negligible departures from force-freeness measured by various metrics. The filament here is formed by a split flux tube. One part of the flux tube is rooted in the photosphere aside an observed interruption in the filament. This splitted topology is due to strong network polarities on the edge of the filament channel, not to flux concentrations closer to the filament. We focus our study to the northwest portion of the filament. The related flux tube is highly fragmented at low altitudes. This fragmentation is due to small flux concentrations of two types. First, some locally distort the tube, leading to noticeable thickness variations along the filament body. Second, parasitic polarities, associated with filament feet, result in secondary dips above the related local inversion line. These dips belong to long field lines that pass below the flux tube. Many of these field lines are not rooted near the related foot. Finally, the present model shows that the coronal void interpretation cannot be ruled out to interpret the wideness of EUV filament channels. 相似文献
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Brigitte Schmieder Nicole Mein Yuanyong Deng Cristiana Dumitrache Jean-Marie Malherbe Joachim Staiger E. E. Deluca 《Solar physics》2004,223(1):119-141
This paper is focused on the formation of two filaments in a complex center of decaying active regions (AR 8329 and AR 8326), located in the northern hemisphere. The observations were obtained in Hα by the Multi-channel Subtractive Double Pass spectrograph (MSDP mounted on the German telescope VTT in Tenerife) and EUV lines with TRACE (Transition Region And Corona Explorer). High Doppler shifts are found to be related to the ends of filament segments where canceling magnetic fields are also located (as seen on magnetograms from Big Bear Solar Observatory). At these locations, velocities along the line of sight, derived by using a cloud model method reach −20 km s−1, the segments of filaments merge and frequently a time-related sub-flare is observed by TRACE. The chirality of the filament segments has been determined by different methods: the segments of dextral chirality join together and form a long dextral filament, and a single filament of sinistral chirality forms end to end with the dextral filament but does not merge with it. Assuming a model of twisted flux tube for filament material, we suggest that the dextral filament has negative helicity and a relationship between its formation and the close by sunspot with the same sign of helicity. 相似文献
16.
Among all the signatures of solar ejecta in interplanetary space, magnetic clouds are particularly interesting. We have shown that they are associated with solar mass ejections that involve not only coronal heights, but also chromospheric heights and so, they are almost always associated with low-altitude solar activity such as H flares or filament eruptions. As a magnetic cloud is a very large structure, and not all the ejecta found in the interplanetary medium are clouds, it is interesting to investigate the characteristics of the large-scale coronal magnetic structures in the regions where the activity leading to a cloud takes place. In this paper we use Hoeksema's potential field model of the solar magnetosphere to obtain the magnetic structure of the site of the solar events associated with 35 interplanetary magnetic clouds. The position of the related solar activity was determined from the location of the near-surface solar explosive events (flares and filament eruptions) associated with each cloud, obtained in our previous study. We find that the solar activity associated with interplanetary magnetic clouds occurs in regions of low-altitude, magnetically closed structures lying between higher helmets, or between the highest helmets and coronal holes, where the magnetic field lines are longitudinally oriented. 相似文献
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R. K. Zhigalkin G. V. Rudenko N. N. Stepanian V. G. Fainshtein N. I. Shtertser 《Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory》2008,104(1):67-78
Based on the developed method of jointly using data on the magnetic fields and brightness of filaments and coronal holes (CHs) at various heights in the solar atmosphere as well as on the velocities in the photosphere, we have obtained the following results: The upward motion of matter is typical of filament channels in the form of bright stripes that often surround the filaments when observed in the HeI 1083 nm line. The filament channels observed simultaneously in Hα and HeI 1083 nm differ in size, emission characteristics, and other parameters. We conclude that by simultaneously investigating the filament channels in two spectral ranges, we can make progress in understanding the physics of their formation and evolution. Most of the filaments observed in the HeI 1083 nm line consist of dark knots with different velocity distributions in them. A possible interpretation of these knots is offered. The height of the small-scale magnetic field distribution near the individual dark knots of filaments in the solar atmosphere varies between 3000 and 20000 km. The zero surface separating the large-scale magnetic field structures in the corona and calculated in the potential approximation changes the inclination to the solar surface with height and is displaced in one or two days. The observed formation of a filament in a CH was accompanied by a significant magnetic field variation in the CH region at heights from 0 to 30000 km up to the change of the predominant field sign over the entire CH area. We assume that this occurs at the stage of CH disappearance. 相似文献
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Solar filaments show the position of large-scale polarity-inversion lines and are used for the reconstruction of large-scale
solar magnetic field structure on the basis of Hα synoptic charts for the periods that magnetographic measurements are not
available. Sometimes crossing filaments are seen in Hα filtergrams. We analyze daily Hα filtergrams from the archive of Big
Bear Solar Observatory for the period of 1999 – 2003 to find crossing and interacting filaments. A number of examples are
presented and filament patterns are compared with photospheric magnetic field distributions. We have found that all crossing
filaments reveal quadrupolar magnetic configurations of the photospheric field and presume the presence of null points in
the corona. 相似文献
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We applied special data-processing algorithms to the study of long-period oscillations of the magnetic-field strength and
the line-of-sight velocity in sunspots. The oscillations were investigated with two independent groups of data. First, we
used an eight-hour-long series of solar spectrograms, obtained with the solar telescope at the Pulkovo Observatory. We simultaneously
measured Doppler shifts of six spectral lines, formed at different heights in the atmosphere. Second, we had a long time series
of full-disk magnetograms (10 – 34 hour) from SOHO/MDI for the line-of-sight magnetic-field component. Both ground- and space-based
observations revealed long-period modes of oscillations (40 – 45, 60 – 80, and 160 – 180 minutes) in the power spectrum of
the sunspots and surrounding magnetic structures. With the SOHO/MDI data, one can study the longer periodicities. We obtained
two new significant periods (> 3σ) in the power spectra of sunspots: around 250 and 480 minutes. The power of the oscillations in the lower frequencies is
always higher than in the higher ones. The amplitude of the long-period magnetic-field modes shows magnitudes of about 200 – 250 G.
The amplitude of the line-of-sight velocity periodicities is about 60 – 110 m s−1. The absence of low-frequency oscillations in the telluric line proves their solar nature. Moreover, the absence of low-frequency
oscillations of the line-of-sight velocity in the quiet photosphere (free of magnetic elements) proves their direct connection
to magnetic structures. Long-period modes of oscillation observed in magnetic elements surrounding the sunspot are spread
over the meso-granulation scales (10″ – 12″), while the sunspot itself oscillates as a whole. The amplitude of the long-period
mode of the line-of-sight velocity in a sunspot decreases rapidly with height: these oscillations are clearly visible in the
spectral lines originating at heights of approximately 200 km and fade away in lines originating at 500 km. We found a new
interesting property: the low-frequency oscillations of a sunspot are strongly reduced when there is a steady temporal trend
(strengthening or weakening) of the sunspot’s magnetic field. Another important result is that the frequency of long-period
oscillations evidently depends on the sunspot’s magnetic-field strength. 相似文献
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The hydrogen and helium lines are the most prominent lines in the solar prominences spectra. Observations with the SUMER spectrometer
onboard SOHO showed that there are weak lines in the blue wings of the Lyman series which affect their profiles. They were
all identified as He ii lines in the Lyman series wings, except for the Lα line whose profile was affected by the use of an attenuator. The He ii lines are the even Balmer lines of the He ii system, a set of lines that we complete with the odd ones. We characterize them by comparison with the blue wings of the
Lyman series in order to improve the H Lyman series observations and modeling, on one hand and to provide He ii lines observations for further combined H – He i – He ii modeling, on the other hand. 相似文献