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NOAA active region 6659, during its June 1991 transit across the solar disk, showed highly sheared vector magnetic field structures and produced numerous powerful flares, including five white-light flares. Photospheric vector magnetograms of this active region were obtained at the Huairou Solar Observing Station of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory. After the resolution of the 180° ambiguity of the transverse magnetic field and transformation of off-center vector magnetograms to the heliographic plane, we have determined the photospheric vertical current density and discussed the relationship with powerful flares. The following results were obtained: (a) The powerful 3B/X12 flare on June 9, 1991 was triggered by the interaction between the large-scale electric current system and magnetic flux of opposite polarity. (b) The kernels of the powerful Hβ flare (sites of the white-light flare) were close to the peaks of the vertical electric current density. (c) Some small-scale structures of the vertical current relative to the magnetic islands of opposite polarity have not been found. This probably implies that the electric current is not always parallel to the magnetic field in solar active regions.  相似文献   

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We analyse data from Hinode spacecraft taken over two 54-minute periods during the emergence of AR 11024. We focus on small-scale portions within the observed solar active region and discover the appearance of very distinctive small-scale and short-lived dark features in Ca ii H chromospheric filtergrams and Stokes I images. The features appear in regions with close-to-zero longitudinal magnetic field, and are observed to increase in length before they eventually disappear. Energy release in the low chromospheric line is detected while the dark features are fading. Three complete series of these events are detected with remarkably similar properties, i.e. lifetime of ≈ 12 min, maximum length and area of 2 – 4 Mm and 1.6 – 4 Mm2, respectively, and all with associated brightenings. In time series of magnetograms a diverging bipolar configuration is observed accompanying the appearance of the dark features and the brightenings. The observed phenomena are explained as evidencing elementary flux emergence in the solar atmosphere, i.e. small-scale arch filament systems rising up from the photosphere to the lower chromosphere with a length scale of a few solar granules. Brightenings are explained as being the signatures of chromospheric heating triggered by reconnection of the rising loops (once they have reached chromospheric heights) with pre-existing magnetic fields, as well as being due to reconnection/cancellation events in U-loop segments of emerging serpentine fields. The characteristic length scale, area and lifetime of these elementary flux emergence events agree well with those of the serpentine field observed in emerging active regions. We study the temporal evolution and dynamics of the events and compare them with the emergence of magnetic loops detected in quiet Sun regions and serpentine flux emergence signatures in active regions. The physical processes of the emergence of granular-scale magnetic loops seem to be the same in the quiet Sun and active regions. The difference is the reduced chromospheric emission in the quiet Sun attributed to the fact that loops are emerging in a region of lower ambient magnetic field density, making interactions and reconnection less likely to occur. Incorporating the novel features of granular-scale flux emergence presented in this study, we advance the scenario for serpentine flux emergence.  相似文献   

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陈协珍 《天文学报》1996,37(1):51-59,T001
本文利用紫金山天文台太阳光谱仪缝前附属Daystar滤光器拍摄的,发生在NOAA5395活动区中的三个耀斑的Hα单色光资料,对比北京天文台怀柔观测站取得的光球磁场资料,研究耀斑产生位置与光球磁场演化的关系,结果表明:(1)在所研究的50个耀斑亮核中,有38个位于新浮磁流区附近,另有少数亮核出现在磁对消区;(2)耀斑亮核多集中在横场方向交叉,剪切角大的复杂磁区,耀斑后多数区域磁场结构简化;(3)耀斑  相似文献   

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利用1998年10月3日北京天文台怀柔太阳观测站的高质量磁图,对给定的太阳宁静区两种不同极性的磁场进行了功率谱分析.结果表明,空间功率谱在超米粒和中米粒尺度具有明显的尖峰结构,这对应于空间周期性分布的网络和内网络磁结构.结果也显示出,超米粒边缘所包含的两种极性场中,其中的一种极性占优势.通过瞬态功率谱的分析,得出网络和内网络场寿命之间的比例关系,这一结果和其他学者得出的超米粒和中米粒对流寿命之间的关系相符.  相似文献   

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Previous work relating flares to evolutionary changes of photospheric solar magnetic fields are reviewed and reinterpreted in the light of recent observations of cancelling magnetic fields. In line-of-sight magnetograms and H-alpha filtergrams from Big Bear Solar Observatory, we confirm the following 3 associations: (a) the occurrence of many flares in the vicinity of emerging magnetic flux regions (Rust, 1974), but only at locations where cancellation has been observed or inferred; (b) the occurrence of flares at sites where the magnetic flux is increasing on one side of a polarity inversion line and concurrently decreasing on the other (Martres et al., 1968; Ribes, 1969); and (c) the occurrence of flares at sites where cancellation is the only observed change in the magnetograms for at least several hours before a flare (Martin, Livi, and Wang, 1985). Because cancellation (or the localized decrease in the line-of-sight component of magnetic flux) is the only common factor in all of these circumstances, suggest that cancellation is the more general association that includes the other associations as special cases. We propose the hypothesis that cancellation is a necessary, evolutionary precondition for flares. We also confirm the observation of Martin, Livi, and Wang (1985) that the initial parts of flares occur in close proximity to cancellation sites but that during later phases, the flare emission can spread to other parts of the magnetic field that are weak, strong, or not cancelling.  相似文献   

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We analyzed transient Ca ii H brightening associated with small-scale canceling magnetic features (CMFs) in the quiet Sun near disk center using Ca ii H filter images and Na D1 magnetograms of Hinode/SOT. We found that in most Ca ii brightening events related to CMFs the Ca ii H intensity peaks after the magnetic flux cancellation. Moreover, the brightening tends to appear as a pair of bright points of similar size and brightness overlying a magnetic bipole. Then a new opposite polarity fragment moves to them and cancels out. These results imply that magnetic reconnection takes place there and is responsible for CMFs.  相似文献   

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There are 4 types of evolution patterns of network magnetic fields: (1) flux cancellation, the mutual disappearance of encountering fluxes of opposite polarity, (2) flux increase by emergence of ephemeral regions, (3) flux decrease of one polarity and (4) flux increase of one polarity, without emergence of ephemeral regions.From a time sequence of magnetograms of a quiet region of 1983 October 14, the evolution of 300 network features was measured. The magnetograms have a spatial resolution of 2 to 3 arcsec and a time resolution of about 2 hr. The statistics show that the contribution to flux decrease by Type 3 is 1.28 times that by Type 1, and the contribution to flux increase by Type 4 is 7 times that by Type 2.  相似文献   

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Thanks to the high-resolution images from the X-ray telescope (XRT) aboard the Hinode satellite, X-ray bright points (XBPs) in the quiet region of the Sun are resolved and can be seen to have complex loop-like structures. We measure the orientation of such loop structures for 488 XBPs picked up in 26 snapshot X-ray images near the disk center. The distribution of the orientation is slightly but clearly biased to the east – west direction: the random distribution is rejected with a significance level of 1% by the χ 2-test. The distribution is similar to the orientation distribution for the bipolar magnetic fields. The XBP orientation is, however, much more random than that of the bipolar magnetic fields with similar size. 24% of the XBPs are due to emerging bipoles, while the remaining 76% are due to chance encounters of opposite polarities.  相似文献   

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The associations of flares to flux emergence and cancellation have been further examined and clarified with the aid of complete time sequences of vector magnetograms of an active region for a 4-day period around the central meridian passage.It is found that the emergence of new flux and its driven flux cancellation with existing flux is a wholly inseparable, elementary process in the active region, favorable for flare occurence. The early discovery ofstructures magnetique evolutive (Martreset al., 1968) is confirmed and identified to be the net result of this process.All events of flux cancellation appear in the interface of two topologically separated magnetic loops. Direct indications of magnetic reconnection between two cancelling components in the photospheric layer are identified. The cancellation is most likely a slow reconnection in the lower atmosphere of the Sun. The quite popular view of interpreting flux cancellation as a pure flux submergence could not fit the magnetic topology learned from alignments of the transverse magnetic field. In this sense, the association of flares to flux cancellation seems to represent a coupling of the slow reconnection in the lower atmosphere to the fast reconnection higher in the corona.This slow reconnection can even take place below the photosphere. In one case, an inferred sub-photospheric reconnection eventually prevents one pole of an emerging flux region with the polarity opposite to the background from showing up at the photospheric level.Six of all eight flares which appeared in this period are spatially and temporally associated with the emergence of new flux and its driven cancellation. They might be divided into two groups. The first group of flares appears at the early phase of flux emergence and in close proximity to the cancelling site between new and old flux; the second ones appear after several hours of flux cancellation, centering around the cancelling site.  相似文献   

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Zhang  Jun  Wang  Jingxiu  Deng  Yuanyong  Wang  Haimin 《Solar physics》1999,188(1):47-58
We have studied the relative polarity distribution of intranetwork (IN) and network (NW) fields for the first time, using very deep magnetograms obtained at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and Huairou Solar Observation Station (HSOS). We found 80 network cells and measured the polarities of intranetwork and network magnetic flux within each cell. The analysis reveals that, in enhanced networks, the signed sum of the IN flux in a cell and the signed sum of the network flux on the boundary of the cell is opposite with 90% probability; in mixed-polarity network, the corresponding signed fluxes are opposite with a probability of 75%. We suggest that:(1) Some of the excess flux within a cell may connect to a weak field component of the IN field that is below the detection limit.(2) Some IN flux, preferentially close to the cell boundary, may be topologically connected to the network field.(3) Some observational effects might produce this anti-correlation.  相似文献   

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Durrant  C.J.  Mccloughan  J. 《Solar physics》2004,219(1):55-78
We describe the application of the synoptic transport equation to simulate the temporal evolution of the magnetic flux over the solar surface. This provides a means of predicting each day both the synoptic maps for the Carrington rotation starting the next day and the instantaneous map of the solar flux over the whole solar surface for the next day. The reliability of the predicted synoptic maps is tested by comparing the locations of the zero-flux contour with those of the observed maps produced by the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak and with the locations of Hα filaments measured on filtergrams obtained by the Big Bear Solar Observatory. We conclude that the best match at high latitudes is obtained by long-term simulations (over 20 rotations) with flux updates each rotation between latitudes ± 60°. We illustrate the use of the simulations to describe the evolution of the polar fields at the time of the polarity reversals in Cycle 23. The reconstruction of the instantaneous maps is tested by comparison with full-disk magnetograms. The method provides a simple means of estimating the large-scale flux distribution over the whole surface. It does not take account of flux emerging after the central meridian passage each rotation so it is only approximate in the activity belts but provides a reliable map beyond those latitudes.  相似文献   

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Kress  J.M.  Wilson  P.R. 《Solar physics》1999,189(1):147-161
The decay of several active regions which emerged early in cycle 22 has been studied using daily magnetograms and synoptic plots obtained at the Vacuum Telescope at the National Solar Observatory, Kitt Peak. The observed patterns are compared with simulations using the flux transport equation and some discrepancies are noted. For one region it is shown that, by including the emergence of a non-random pattern of small magnetic bipoles during the decay, the correspondence between the observed and simulated patterns may be improved.  相似文献   

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Time sequences of vector magnetograms and H filtergrams of NOAA 7469 were obtained during 4–12 April 1993 at Huairou Solar Observing Station of Beijing Astronomical Observatory. The region was characterized by the emergence of several new bipoles and the formation of active magnetic interfaces between newly emerging and pre-existing magnetic flux. Based on the 3-D magnetic lines of force, computed with the boundary element method (BEM), it has been found that the topology of magnetic lines of force changes when longitudinal magnetic fields evolve during the observing period. Two active magnetic interfaces were identified from 6 to 8 April in this region. By comparing H filtergrams with vector magnetograms of the photosphere and 3-D magnetic lines of force, it is found that many flares initiated at the active magnetic interfaces.  相似文献   

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We analyzed multi-wavelength observations of the eruption of a small-scale filament on the quiet Sun. The filament first became thicker, then broke into two, and eventually underwent a partial eruption with possible rotating motion. The eruption was followed by a small flare with three bright kernels on either side of the eruptive section in Hα and a small coronal dimming near one end of this section in EUV and soft X-ray. On the photosphere, MDI magnetograms show the flux emergence or motions and cancellation between opposite polarities before and during the filament eruption. We find that this small-scale filament shows the similar characteristics as the previous findings in the large-scale filament eruptions on the multi-wavelength, indicating the common nature.  相似文献   

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It is a basic feature of the Babcock-Leighton model of the solar cycle that the polar field reversal is due to the diffusive decay and poleward drift of the active region fields. The flux from follower regions moves preferentially polewards in each hemisphere, where it cancels with, and then replaces, the previously existing polar fields. A number of workers have attempted to model this process by numerical solutions of the flux transport equation, which include the surface effects of supergranule diffusion, differential rotation and meridional flow, with conflicting results.Here we describe recent changes in the polar fields using synoptic magnetic data provided by the Mount Wilson Observatory, and compare them with simulations using the flux transport equation and based on the observed fields for Carrington rotation 1815. These changes include a part-reversal of the north polar field. It is shown that the evolution of the polar fields cannot be reproduced accurately by simulations of the diffusion and poleward drift of the emerging active regions at sunspot latitudes.Histograms of the distribution of the field intensities derived from the daily magnetograms obtained at the Kitt Peak Station of the National Solar Observatory provide independent evidence that flux is emerging at high latitudes and that this flux makes a contribution to the evolution of these patterns. This implies the presence of some form of sub-surface dynamo action at high latitudes.On leave from the School of Mathematics, University of Sydney.  相似文献   

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During 23–28 August 1988, at the Huairou Solar Observation Station of Beijing Observatory, the full development process of the region HR 88059 was observed. It emerged near the center of the solar disk and formed a medium active region. A complete series of vector magnetograms and photospheric and chromospheric Dopplergrams was obtained. From an analysis of these data, combined with some numerical simulations, the following conclusions can be drawn. (1) The emergence of new magnetic flux from enhanced networks followed by sunspot formation is an interesting physical process which can be simply described by MHD numerical simulation. The phenomena accompanying it occur according to a definite law summarized by Zwaan (1985). The condition for gas cooling and sunspot formation seems to be transverse field strength > 50 G together with longitudinal field strength > 700 G. For a period of 4 to 5 hours, the orientation of the transverse field shows little change. The configuration of field lines may be derived from vector magnetograms. The arch filament system can be recognized as an MHD shock. (2) New opposite bipolar features emerge within the former bipolar field with an identical strength which will develop a sunspot group complex. Also, arch filament systems appear there located in the position of flux emergence. The neutral line is often pushed aside and curved, leading to faculae heating and the formation of a current sheet. In spite of complicated Dopplergrams, the same phenomena occur at the site of flux emergence as usual: upward flow appears at the location of the emerging and rapidly varying flux near the magnetic neutral line, and downdraft occurs over large parts of the legs of the emerging flux tubes. The age of magnetic emerging flux (or a sunspot) can be estimated in terms of transverse field strengths: when 50 G < transverse field < 200 G, the longitudinal magnetogram and Dopplergram change rapidly, which indicates a rigourously emerging magnetic flux. When the transverse field is between 200 and 400 G, the area concerned is in middle age, and some of the new flux is still emerging there. When the transverse field > 400 G, the variation of the longitudinal magnetogram slows down and the emerging arch becomes relatively stable and a photospheric Evershed flow forms at the penumbra of the sunspot.  相似文献   

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We carried out a multi-wavelength study of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) and an associated flare, occurring on 12 May 1997. We present a detailed investigation of magnetic-field variations in NOAA Active Region 8038 which was observed on the Sun during 7??C?16 May 1997. This region was quiet and decaying and produced only a very small flare activity during its disk passage. However, on 12 May 1997 it produced a CME and associated medium-size 1B/C1.3 flare. Detailed analyses of H?? filtergrams and SOHO/MDI magnetograms revealed continual but discrete surge activity, and emergence and cancellation of flux in this active region. The movie of these magnetograms revealed the two important results that the major opposite polarities of pre-existing region as well as in the emerging-flux region were approaching towards each other and moving magnetic features (MMF) were ejected from the major north polarity at a quasi-periodicity of about ten hours during 10??C?13 May 1997. These activities were probably caused by magnetic reconnection in the lower atmosphere driven by photospheric convergence motions, which were evident in magnetograms. The quantitative measurements of magnetic-field variations such as magnetic flux, gradient, and sunspot rotation revealed that in this active region, free energy was slowly being stored in the corona. Slow low-layer magnetic reconnection may be responsible for the storage of magnetic free energy in the corona and the formation of a sigmoidal core field or a flux rope leading to the eventual eruption. The occurrence of EUV brightenings in the sigmoidal core field prior to the rise of a flux rope suggests that the eruption was triggered by the inner tether-cutting reconnection, but not the external breakout reconnection. An impulsive acceleration, revealed from fast separation of the H?? ribbons of the first 150 seconds, suggests that the CME accelerated in the inner corona, which is also consistent with the temporal profile of the reconnection electric field. Based on observations and analysis we propose a qualitative model, and we conclude that the mass ejections, filament eruption, CME, and subsequent flare were connected with one another and should be regarded within the framework of a solar eruption.  相似文献   

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Zhang  Hongqi 《Solar physics》1997,174(1-2):219-227
In this paper we present the observational results of chromospheric and photospheric magnetograms in active regions obtained at the Huairou Solar Observing Station of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory. Simultaneous observations of the chromospheric and photospheric magnetic fields enable us to construct a possible configuration of the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere. The chromospheric magnetic field shows more diffusion than the photospheric magnetic field and consists of fibril-like features. We also discuss the possible configuration of the magnetic shear in highly sheared active regions.  相似文献   

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Reversed-polarity structures of chromospheric magnetic fields are magnetic gulfs and islands of opposite polarity relative to the underlying photospheric fields. In this paper data measured with the Solar Magnetic Field Telescope of the Huairou Solar Observing Station in Beijing were analyzed. From more than 300 pairs of photospheric magnetograms (in FeI λ5324.19 Å) and relevant chromospheric magnetograms (Hβ λ4861.34 Å), the reality of the reversed-polarity structures is demonstrated. According to an analysis of the fine structure of the magnetic field in the two layers of active regions, we found that there are probably four different types as follows: Type A: magnetic islands of opposite polarity corresponding to photospheric fields appear in the chromospheric magnetogram. Type B: magnetic gulfs of opposite polarity corresponding to photospheric fields appear in the chromospheric magnetogram. Type C is the reverse of type B. That is, a magnetic gulf of opposite polarity corresponding to the chromospheric field appears in the photospheric magnetogram. Type D is the reverse of type A.  相似文献   

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本文首次给出了发生在太阳光球磁重联的一个直接的观测证据。 这一磁重联的观测特征是:(1)重联发生在一新浮现磁通量区的一极与极性相反的老磁通量之间;(2)重联前中性线附近磁剪切明显;(3)被重联两极为一对消磁结构,重联发生在稳定的磁通量损失数小时之后;(4)一个级别为C2.9的亚耀斑发生在重联之前。该耀斑以重联区为中心,双带离重联位置2~3万公里,直到耀斑极大相后14分钟,重联仍未发生;(5)重联后,磁对消速率呈增大趋势。  相似文献   

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