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We present H and coronal X-ray images of the large two-ribbon flare of 25–26 June, 1992 during its long-lasting gradual decay phase. From these observations we deduce that the 3-D magnetic field configuration late in this flare was similar to that at and before the onset of such large eruptive bipolar flares: the sheared core field running under and out of the flare arcade was S-shaped, and at least one elbow of the S looped into the low corona. From previous observations of filament-eruption flares, we infer that such core-field coronal elbows, though rarely observed, are probably a common feature of the 3-D magnetic field configuration late in large two-ribbon flares. The rare circumstance that apparently resulted in a coronal elbow of the core field being visible in H in our flare was the occurrence of a series of subflares low in the core field under the late-phase arcade of the large flare; these subflares probably produced flaring arches in the northern coronal elbow, thereby rendering this elbow visible in H. The observed late-phase 3-D field configuration presented here, together with the recent sheared-core bipolar magnetic field model of Antiochos, Dahlburg, and Klimchuk (1994) and recent Yohkoh SXT observations of the coronal magnetic field configuration at and before the onset of large eruptive bipolar flares, supports the seminal 3-D model for eruptive two-ribbon flares proposed by Hirayama (1974), with three modifications: (1) the preflare magnetic field is closed over the filament-holding core field; (2) the preflare core field has the shape of an S (or backward S) with coronal elbows; (3) a lower part of the core field does not erupt and open, but remains closed throughout flare, and can have prominent coronal elbows. In this picture, the rest of the core field, the upper part, does erupt and open along with the preflare arcade envelope field in which it rides; the flare arcade is formed by reconnection that begins in the middle of the core field at the start of the eruption and progresses from reconnecting closed core field early in the flare to reconnecting opened envelope field late in the flare. 相似文献
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Kazunari Shibata 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1998,264(1-4):129-144
The solar X-ray observing satellite Yohkoh has discovered various new dynamic features in solar flares and corona, e.g., cusp-shaped
flare loops, above-the-loop-top hard X-ray sources, X-ray plasmoid ejections from impulsive flares, transient brightenings
(spatially resolved microflares), X-ray jets, large scale arcade formation associated with filament eruption or coronal mass
ejections, and so on. It has soon become clear that many of these features are closely related to magnetic reconnection. We
can now say that Yohkoh established (at least phenomenologically) the magnetic reconnection model of flares. In this paper,
we review various evidence of magnetic reconnection in solar flares and corona, and present unified model of flares on the
basis of these new Yohkoh observations.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
3.
Using RHESSI and some auxiliary observations we examine possible connections between the spatial and temporal structure of
nonthermal hard X-ray (HXR) emission sources from the two-ribbon flares of 29 May 2003 and 19 January 2005. In each of these
events quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) with time period of 1 – 3 minutes are evident in both hard X rays and microwaves. The
sources of nonthermal HXR emission are situated mainly at the footpoints of the flare arcade loops observed by TRACE and the
SOHO/EIT instrument in the EUV range. At least one of the sources moves systematically during and after the QPP phase in each
flare. The sources move predominantly parallel to the magnetic inversion line during the 29 May flare and along flare ribbons
during the QPP phase of both flares. By contrast, the sources start to show movement perpendicular to the flare ribbons with
velocity comparable to that along the ribbons’ movement after the QPP phase. The sources of each pulse are localized in distinct
parts of the ribbon during the QPP phase. The measured velocity of the sources and the estimated energy release rate do not
correlate well with the flux of the HXR emission calculated from these sources. The sources of microwaves and thermal HXRs
are situated near the apex of the flare loop arcade and are not stationary either. Almost all of the QPP as well as some pulses
of nonthermal HXR emission during the post-QPP phase reveal soft – hard – soft spectral behavior, indicating separate acts
of electron acceleration and injection. In our opinion at least two different flare scenarios based on the Nakariakov et al. (2006, Astron. Astrophys.
452, 343) model and on the idea of current-carrying loop coalescence are suitable for interpreting the observations. However,
it is currently not possible to choose between them owing to observational limitations. 相似文献
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We analyze radio observations, magnetograms and extrapolated field line maps, Hα filtergrams, and X-ray observations of two
flare events (6 February 1992 in AR 7042 and 25 October 1994 in AR 7792) and study properties, evolution and energy release
signatures of sigmoidal loop systems. During both events, the loop configuration seen in soft X-ray (SXR) images changes from
a preflare sigmoidal shape to a relaxed post-flare loop system. The underlying magnetic field system consists of a quadrupolar
configuration formed by a sheared arcade core and a remote field concentration. We demonstrate two possibilities: a sigmoidal
SXR pattern can be due to a single continuous flux tube (the 1992 event). Alternatively, it can be due to a set of independent
loops appearing like a sigmoid (the 1994 event). In both cases, the preflare and post-flare loops can be well reproduced by
a linear force-free field and potential field, respectively, computed using preflare magnetograms. We find that thermal and
non-thermal flare energy release indicators of both events become remarkably similar after applying spatial and temporal scale
transformations. Using the spatial scaling between both events we estimated that the non-thermal energy release in the second
event liberated about 1.7 times more energy per unit volume. A two-and-a-half times faster evolution indicates that the rate
of the energy release per unit volume is more than four times higher in this event. A coronal type II burst reveals ignition
and propagation of a coronal shock wave. In contrast, the first event, which was larger and released about a 10 times more
energy during the non-thermal phase, was associated with a CME, but no type II burst was recorded. During both events, in
addition to the two-ribbon flare process an interaction was observed between the flaring arcade and an emerging magnetic flux
region of opposite polarity next to the dominant leading sunspot. The arcade flare seems to stimulate the reconnection process
in an `emerging flux-type' configuration, which significantly contributes to the energy release. This regime is characterized
by the quasiperiodic injection of electron beams into the surrounding extended field line systems. The repeated beam injections
excite pulsating broadband radio emission in the decimetric-metric wavelength range. Each radio pulse is due to a new electron
beam injection. The pulsation period (seconds) reflects the spatial scale of the emerging flux-type field configuration. Since
broadband decimetric-metric radio pulsations are a frequent radio flare phenomenon, we speculate that opposite-polarity small-scale
flux intrusions located in the vicinity of strong field regions may be an essential component of the energy release process
in dynamic flares. 相似文献
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We study the evolution of the active region (AR) NOAA 7321 in which appeared a so-called `neutral-line-associated source' (NLS) on the basis of data of the Nobeyama Radioheliograph and Yohkoh/SXT. We provide a physical interpretation of the NLS in terms of a topological magnetic reconnection model in a quadrupole magnetic configuration and discuss its relation to the evolution of the active region. Two kinds of the NLS were observed at 17 GHz. One of them, `rising NLS', was found in the growth stage. The other was `stationary NLS' detected in the maximal stage of the AR. Their presence was associated with substantial expansion of the active region's magnetosphere and accompanied by gradual development of spine-like structures visible in soft X-rays before homologous long-duration arcade flares. We suggest that the rising 17 GHz NLS corresponded to a fragment of a `horizontal' current sheet moving upward. Bright X-ray spines were boundaries of that current sheet. Almost all bursts observed from 26 to 28 October 1992 which accompanied class C and M flares occurred in the rising NLS. Formation of magnetic X-point singularities is believed to be responsible for the low-lying NLS. Reversal of circular polarization due to the effect of radio wave propagation was detected in that NLS on the limb. The initial stage of the microwave burst of the long-duration X9 class flare on 2 November 1992 occurred in this NLS. We also revealed observational manifestations of the presence of `vertical' non-neutral current sheet in the spatial structure of this NLS before the flare. 相似文献
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B. V. Somov 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(7):514-519
In connection with the RHESSI satellite observations of solar flares, which have revealed new properties of hard X-ray sources
during flares, we offer an interpretation of these properties. The observed motions of coronal and chromospheric sources are
shown to be the consequences of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection at the separator in the corona. During the first (initial)
flare phase, the reconnection process releases an excess of magnetic energy related predominantly to themagnetic tensions
produced before the flare by shear plasma flows in the photosphere. The relaxation of a magnetic shear in the corona also
explains the downward motion of the coronal source and the decrease in the separation between chromospheric sources. During
the second (main) flare phase, ordinary reconnection dominates; it describes the energy release in the terms of the “standard
model” of large eruptive flares accompanied by the rise of the coronal source and an increase in the separation between chromospheric
sources. 相似文献
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C. P. Goff L. van Driel-Gesztelyi P. Démoulin J. L. Culhane S. A. Matthews L. K. Harra C. H. Mandrini K. L. Klein H. Kurokawa 《Solar physics》2007,240(2):283-299
A series of flares (GOES class M, M and C) and a CME were observed in close succession on 20 January 2004 in NOAA 10540. Radio
observations, which took the form of types II, III and N bursts, were associated with these events. We use the combined observations
from TRACE, EIT, Hα images from Kwasan, MDI magnetograms and GOES to understand the complex development of this event. Contrary
to a standard interpretation, we conclude that the first two impulsive flares are part of the CME launch process while the
following long-duration event flare represents simply the recovery phase. Observations show that the flare ribbons not only
separate but also shift along the magnetic inversion line so that magnetic reconnection progresses stepwise to neighboring
flux tubes. We conclude that “tether cutting” reconnection in the sheared arcade progressively transforms it to a twisted
flux tube, which becomes unstable, leading to a CME. We interpret the third flare, a long-duration event, as a combination
of the classical two-ribbon flare with the relaxation process following forced reconnection between the expanding CME structure
and neighboring magnetic fields.
Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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The GOES C7.5 flare on 20 February 2002 at 11:07 UT is one of the first solar flares observed by RHESSI at X-ray wavelengths. It was simultaneously observed at metric/decimetric wavelengths by the Nançay radioheliograph (NRH) which provided images of the flare between 450 and 150 MHz. We present a first comparison of the hard X-ray images observed with RHESSI and of the radio emission sites observed by the NRH. This first analysis shows that: (1) there is a close occurrence between the production of the HXR-radiating most energetic electrons and the injection of radio-emitting non-thermal electrons at all heights in the corona, (2) modifications with time in the pattern of the HXR sources above 25 keV and of the decimetric radio sources at 410 MHz are observed occurring on similar time periods, (3) in the late phase of the most energetic HXR peak, a weak radio source is observed at high frequencies, overlying the EUV magnetic loops seen in the vicinity of the X-ray flaring sites above 12 keV. These preliminary results illustrate the potential of combining RHESSI and NRH images for the study of electron acceleration and transport in flares. 相似文献
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Takashi Sakurai 《Solar physics》1983,86(1-2):339-344
Potential field computations have been carried out to study the location of hard X-ray sources observed by the HINOTORI hard X-ray imaging instrument, SXT. Of the two flares studied, the X-ray source of the 1981 May 13 event, a very unusual gradual flare, appears to lie at the top of an arcade of field lines. In the other event, the 1981 October 15 flare, the observed double source structure is not explained in the present computation, implying the existence of non-negligible electric currents in the flare region. 相似文献
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J. A. Vorpahl 《Solar physics》1976,47(1):147-156
High temporal and spatial resolution solar X-ray pictures of a flare at 1827 UT on 5 September 1973 were taken with the S-056 Aerospace Corporation/Marshall Space Flight Center telescope on the Apollo Telescope Mount. Photographs taken at 9 s intervals allow detailed information to be obtained about the site of the energy release, as well as about the evolution of the flare itself. Observations show that the flare occured in an entire arcade of loops rather than in any single loop. Sequential brightening of different X-ray features indicates that some excitation moved perpendicular to the magnetic field of the arcade at velocities of 180–280 km/s. The most intense X-ray features were located in places where the magnetic field composing the arcade had a small radius of curvature with horizontal field gradients higher than the surrounding region and where the axis of the arcade changed direction. We feel that the arcade geometry strongly influenced the propagation of the triggering disturbance, as well as the storage and site of the subsequent deposition of energy. A magnetosonic wave is suggested as the propagating mechanism triggering instabilities that may have existed in the preflare structure. This event demonstrates that all energy emitted during a flare need not be released immediately nor in the same location, thereby eliminating some problems encountered in many flare theories. Conditions for energy release are discussed. 相似文献
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It has been widely conjectured that solar flares are energized by the magnetic energy stored in complex active regions. Paradoxically, however, in attempting to show that magnetic changes cause or characterize flares, solar magnetic observations have produced equivocal results.In previous attempts at resolving the paradox, it has been contended that magnetic measurements are simply imprecise or that magnetic theories of flares are incorrect. We present an alternative explanation: the present use of magnetograms to examine active region structure through numerical integration of miscellaneous field lines (under various force-free assumptions) provides qualitative information only and does not utilize the quantitative information available. Therefore, we propose a new approach to the analysis of magnetograms which is illustrated with a highly symmetrized example that permits integration in closed form. The proposed approach exploits the cellular structure of the flux of field lines present in a complex active region. The various topological connectivities distinguish parent and daughter flux cells. A function F is developed expressing the flux partitioned into the daughter cell of interconnected field lines in a potential field. This F is a function of the location, strength, and relative motions of the photospheric sources. Then dF/dt is used as an EMF in the direct calculation of the stored magnetic energy available for flare production. In carrying out this program the flux partitioning surface (separatrix) is calculated along with its line of self-intersection (separator). The separator is the location of the principal energy release site. 相似文献
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Takashi Sakurai 《Solar physics》1985,95(2):311-321
The magnetic field structure of five flares observed by HINOTORI spacecraft is studied. The double source structure of impulsive flares seems to indicate hard X-ray emission from the two footpoints of a flaring loop, but the potential field computation does not reproduce a loop connecting the two sources. Therefore the magnetic field could be in a sheared configuration and the force-free field modeling would be the next step to examine. On the other hand gradual flares are characterized by hard X-ray sources located in the corona, 2–4 x 104 km above the photosphere. The potential field modeling is found to give a reasonable fitting in this type of flares, and the hard X-ray sources are located at the top of the magnetic loop or arcade. This configuration is consistent with the thick-target trap model of the hard X-ray bursts. 相似文献
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The `ribbons' of two-ribbon flares show complicated patterns reflecting the linkages of coronal magnetic field lines through
the lower solar atmosphere. We describe the morphology of the EUV ribbons of the July 14, 2000 flare, as seen in SOHO, TRACE,
and Yohkoh data, from this point of view. A successful co-alignment of the TRACE, SOHO/MDI and Yohkoh/HXT data has allowed us to locate the EUV ribbon positions on the underlying field to within ∼ 2′′, and thus to investigate
the relationship between the ribbons and the field, and also the sites of electron precipitation. We have also made a determination
of the longitudinal magnetic flux involved in the flare reconnection event, an important parameter in flare energetic considerations.
There are several respects in which the observations differ from what would be expected in the commonly-adopted models for
flares. Firstly, the flare ribbons differ in fine structure from the (line-of-sight) magnetic field patterns underlying them,
apparently propagating through regions of very weak and probably mixed polarity. Secondly, the ribbons split or bifurcate.
Thirdly, the amount of line-of-sight flux passed over by the ribbons in the negative and positive fields is not equal. Fourthly,
the strongest hard X-ray sources are observed to originate in stronger field regions. Based on a comparison between HXT and
EUV time-profiles we suggest that emission in the EUV ribbons is caused by electron bombardment of the lower atmosphere, supporting
the hypothesis that flare ribbons map out the chromospheric footpoints of magnetic field lines newly linked by reconnection.
We describe the interpretation of our observations within the standard model, and the implications for the distribution of
magnetic fields in this active region. 相似文献
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Hard X-ray lightcurves, spectrograms, images, and spectra of three medium-sized flares observed by the Reuven Ramaty High-Energy
Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) are presented. Imaging spectroscopy of the 20 February 2002, 11:06 UT flare at 10′′ spatial
resolution, comparable to the best previous hard X-ray imaging from Yohkoh, shows two footpoints with an ∼ 8 s delay of peak emission between footpoints. Subsequent imaging at le4′′ shows three sources consistent with two separate loops and simultaneous brightening in connected footpoints. Imaging for
the simple two footpoint flare of 2 June 2002 also shows simultaneous footpoint brightening. The more complex 17 March 2002
flare shows at least four different sources during the main peak of the event, and it is difficult to clearly demonstrate
simultaneous brightening of connected footpoints. Non-thermal power laws are observed down to ∼ 12–13 keV without flattening
in all these events, indicating the energy content in energetic electrons may be significantly greater than previously estimated
from assumed 25 keV low energy cutoff. Simultaneously brightening footpoints show similar spectra, at least in the three flares
investigated. Double-power-law spectra with a relatively sharp break are often observed.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1022469902940 相似文献
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We describe observations of three flares made at 5 and 15 GHz with the VLA, two subflares near the limb on 1981 November 21 and 22, and an M7.7 flare on 1981 May 8. Even though the time histories of the November flares indicated simple impulsive bursts, the VLA observed no 5 GHz radiation at all from one flare, and from the other, the 15 GHz radiation emanated from a source which was smaller, lower and displaced from the 5 GHz source. Without the spatial information, we would have derived incorrect results from the assumption that photons of different energy (both at X-ray and radio wavelengths) arose from one homogeneous volume. The 1981 May 8 flare was intense and complex, having two. or more sources at both 5 and 15 GHz. Prior to the peak of the flare, the sources grew in size to > 20″ to 40″, after which they were not visible to the VLA; only (weak) subsources could be seen. These were located between or at the edge of the Hα ribbons and the two hard X-ray sources imaged by the Hinotori. Highly polarized, bursty radiation observed at Toyokawa at 1 and 2 GHz, indicated that an electron-cyclotron maser operated during the flare. We derive 360 to 660 gauss as the maximum field strength in flaring loops. 相似文献
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A large arcade flare, occurring on 2 March 1993, has been investigated using X-ray observations recorded by the Yohkoh and GOES satellites and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We analyzed the quasi-periodicity of the hard-X-ray (HXR) pulses in the impulsive phase of the flare and found a close similarity between the quasi-periodic sequence of the pulses to that observed in another large arcade flare, that of 2 November 1991. This similarity helped to explain the strong HXR pulses which were recorded at the end of the impulsive phase as due to the inflow of dense plasma (coming from the chromospheric evaporation) into the acceleration volume inside the cusp. In HXR images a high flaring loop was seen with a triangular cusp structure at the top, where the electrons were efficiently accelerated. The sequence of HXR images allowed us to investigate complicated changes in the precipitation of the accelerated electrons toward the flare footpoints. We have shown that all these impulsive-phase observations can be easily explained in terms of the model of electron acceleration in oscillating magnetic traps located within the cusp structure. Some soft-X-ray (SXR) images were available for the late decay phase. They show a long arcade of SXR loops. Important information about the evolution of the flare during the slow decay phase is contained in the time variation of the temperature, T(t), and emission measure, EM(t). This information is the following: i) weak heating occurs during the slow decay phase and it slowly decreases; ii) the decrease in the heating determines a slow and smooth decrease in EM; iii) the coupling between the heating and the amount of the hot plasma makes the flare evolve along a sequence of quasi-steady states during the slow decay phase (QSS evolution). 相似文献
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This paper reviews studies of the relationship between the evolution of vector magnetic fields and the occurrence of major solar flares. Most of the data were obtained by the video magnetograph systems at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and Huairou Solar Observatory (HSO). Due to the favorable weather and seeing conditions at both stations, high-resolution vector magnetograph sequences of many active regions that produced major flares during last solar maximum (1989–1993) have been recorded. We have analyzed several sequences of magnetograms to study the evolution of vector magnetic fields of flare productive active regions. The studies have focused on the following three aspects: (1) processes which build up magnetic shear in active regions; (2) the pre-flare magnetic structure of active regions; and (3) changes of magnetic shear immediately preceding and following major flares. We obtained the following results based on above studies: (1) Emerging flux regions (EFRs) play very important roles in the production of complicated photospheric flow patterns, magnetic shear and flares. (2) Although the majority of flares prefer to occur in magnetically sheared regions, many flares occurred in regions without strong photospheric magnetic shear. (3) We found that photospheric magnetic shear increased after all the 6 X-class flares studied by us. We want to emphasize that this discovery is not contradictory to the energy conservation principle, because a flare is a three-dimensional process, and the photosphere only provides a two-dimensional boundary condition. This argument is supported by the fact that if two initial ribbons of a flare are widely separated (which may correspond to a higher-altitude flare), the correlation of the flare with strong magnetic shear is weak; if the two ribbons of a flare are close (which may correspond to a lower-altitude flare), its correlation with the strong shear is strong. (4) We have analyzed 18 additional M-class flares observed by HSO in 1989 and 1990. No detectable shear change was found for all the cases. It is likely that only the most energetic flares can affect the photospheric magnetic topology. 相似文献
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Subsurface Vorticity of Flaring <Emphasis Type="Italic">versus</Emphasis> Flare-Quiet Active Regions
We apply discriminant analysis to 1023 active regions and their subsurface-flow parameters, such as vorticity and kinetic
helicity density, with the goal of distinguishing between flaring and non-flaring active regions. We derive synoptic subsurface
flows by analyzing GONG high-resolution Doppler data with ring-diagram analysis. We include magnetic-flux values in the discriminant
analysis derived from NSO Kitt Peak and SOLIS synoptic maps binned to the same spatial scale as the helioseismic analysis.
For each active region, we determine the flare information from GOES and include all flares within 60° central meridian distance
to match the coverage of the ring-diagram analysis. The subsurface-flow characteristics improve the ability to distinguish
between flaring and non-flaring active regions. For the C- and M-class flare category, the most important subsurface parameter
is the so-called structure vorticity, which estimates the horizontal gradient of the horizontal-vorticity components. The
no-event skill score, which measures the improvement over predicting that no events occur, reaches 0.48 for C-class flares
and 0.32 for M-class flares, when the structure vorticity at three depths combined with total magnetic flux are used. The
contributions come mainly from shallow layers within about 2 Mm of the surface and layers deeper than about 7 Mm. 相似文献
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Cherki G. Mercier J. P. Raviart A. Treguer L. Maccagni D. Perotti F. Villa G. 《Solar physics》1974,34(1):223-229
Data on high energy electrons and protons in different energy windows are analyzed and compared for two solar flares which occurred at 37 W solar longitude on the 25th February 1969 and the 29th March 1970. While the data for the first of these flares can be interpreted in the framework of a diffusion model with suitable values of the parallel diffusion coefficient, in order to explain the time behaviour of the different particles after the second event, we are led to suppose that the coronal magnetic fields are such that particles of different rigidity are ejected at different longitudes and that there is no good magnetic connection of the Earth with the flare region. 相似文献