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Observational conditions for the formation and maintenance of filaments are reviewed since 1989 in the light of recent findings
on their structure, chirality, inferred magnetic topology, and mass flows. Recent observations confirm the necessary conditions
previously cited: (1) their location at a boundary between opposite-polarity magnetic fields (2) a system of overlying coronal
loops, (3) a magnetically-defined channel beneath, (4) the convergence of the opposite-polarity network magnetic fields towards
their common boundary within the channel and (5) cancellation of magnetic flux at the common polarity boundary. Evidence is
put forth for three additional conditions associated with fully developed filaments: (A) field-aligned mass flows parallel
with their fine structure (B) a multi-polar background source of small-scale magnetic fields necessary for the formation of
the filament barbs and (C) a handedness property known as chirality which requires them to be either of two types, dextral
or sinistral. One-to-one relationships have been established between the chirality of filaments and the chirality of their
filament channels and overlying coronal arcades. These findings reinforce earlier evidence that every filament magnetic field
is separate from the magnetic field of the overlying arcade but both are parts of a larger magnetic field system. The larger
system has at least quadrupolar footprints in the photosphere and includes the filament channel and subphotospheric magnetic
fields, This ‘systems’ view of filaments and their environment enables new perspectives on why arcades and channels are invariable
conditions for their existence.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005026814076 相似文献
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R.E. Louis H. Balthasar C. Kuckein P. Gmry K.G. Puschmann C. Denker 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2014,335(2):161-167
Spectropolarimetric observations of a sunspot were carried out with the Tenerife Infrared Polarimeter at Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Maps of the physical parameters were obtained from an inversion of the Stokes profiles observed in the infrared Fe I line at 15648 Å The regular sunspot consisted of a light bridge which separated the two umbral cores of the same polarity. One of the arms of the light bridge formed an extension of a penumbral filament which comprised weak and highly inclined magnetic fields. In addition, the Stokes V profiles in this filament had an opposite sign as the sunspot and some resembled Stokes Q or U. This penumbral filament terminated abruptly into another at the edge of the sunspot, where the latter was relatively vertical by about 30°. Chromospheric Hα and He II 304 Å filtergrams revealed three superpenumbral fibrils on the limb‐side of the sunspot, in which one fibril extended into the sunspot and was oriented along the highly inclined penumbral counterpart of the light bridge. An intense, elongated brightening was observed along this fibril that was co‐spatial with the intersecting penumbral filaments in the photosphere. Our results suggest that the disruption in the sunspot magnetic field at the location of the light bridge could be the source of reconnection that led to the intense chromospheric brightening and facilitated the supply of cool material in maintaining the overlying superpenumbral fibrils. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Yun-Chun Jiang Yuan-Deng Shen Jing-Xiu Wang National Astronomical Observatories / Yunnan Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2007,7(1):129-140
1 INTRODUCTION Filaments are cool, dense material suspended in the hot, tenuous corona. It is widely accepted that the global magnetic field surrounding the filaments plays a key role in their formation, structure and stability (Tandberg-Hanssen1995). Fil… 相似文献
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In this paper we seek the origin of the axial component of the magnetic field in filaments by adapting theory to observations.
A previous paper (Mackay, Gaizauskas, and van Ballegooijen, 2000) showed that surface flows acting on potential magnetic fields
for 27 days – the maximum time between the emergence of magnetic flux and the formation of large filaments between the resulting
activity complexes – cannot explain the chirality or inverse polarity nature of the observed filaments. We show that the inclusion
of initial helicity, for which there is observational evidence, in the flux transport model results in sufficiently strong
dextral fields of inverse polarity to account for the existence and length of an observed filament within the allotted time.
The simulations even produce a large length of dextral chirality when just small amounts of helicity are included in the initial
configuration. The modeling suggests that the axial field component in filaments can result from a combination of surface
(flux transport) and sub-surface (helicity) effects acting together. Here surface effects convert the large-scale helicity
emerging in active regions into a smaller-scale magnetic-field component parallel to the polarity inversion line so as to
form a magnetic configuration suitable for a filament. 相似文献
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Recent observations of Martin, Bilimoria, and Tracadas (1995) have revealed two new magnetic and structural classes for solar filaments and filament channels. The magnetic classes are called sinistral and dextral, while the structural classes are left-bearing and right-bearing. Dextral filaments dominate in the northern hemisphere and sinistral in the southern. A model consistent with the observations is developed with magnetic sources that represent the network flux on both sides of the channel and extra concentrations of flux that produce the strong field component along the channel. We suggest that it is the imbalance of flux locations along the channel that creates the field of a filament channel. The resulting separatrix surfaces have distinct upper and lower boundaries that may produce the upper boundary of the filament cavity or filament and the lower boundary of the filament. The model is applied to a specific filament channel, with discrete sources and sinks that represent the flux observed in a photospheric magnetogram. The resulting three-dimensional field lines near the filament location are low-lying and possess dips. 相似文献
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In this paper, three-dimensional linear force-free field configurations that can be associated with filaments are considered. It is assumed that the field configurations are suitable to represent filaments if they contain magnetic dips. With the photospheric flux distribution chosen to be an arcade with a dextral/sinistral axial component, it is found that dipped configurations exist only for large values of alpha (where, ×B=B). The dips always lie above the polarity inversion line in the centre of the channel between the flux regions. When the dips are viewed from above to a depth of 1 Mm they resemble closely the shape of filaments viewed in absorption on the solar disk. As the magnitude of alpha increases, the horizontal and vertical extent of the dips also increases, giving active-region filaments for low values of alpha and quiescient filaments for high values of alpha. Dextral filaments only form for negative values of alpha and sinistral filaments for positive values of alpha. The portion of the field line that is dipped is always of inverse polarity and the magnitude of the field in the dipped region increases with height, both of which are consistent with Leroy, Bommier, and Sahal-Bréchot (1983). Overlying the region of dips there are arcades of normal polarity which have the correct left-bearing/right-bearing orientation for dextral/sinistral filaments. When the hypothesis of barbs occurring in dipped field lines is used, barbs that branch out of the main axis and to the right/left for dextral/sinistral filaments can be formed around minority polarity elements on either side of the polarity inversion line. No barbs are found around normal polarity elements. The model reproduces many of the observed features of filament channels, filaments and their barbs. 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
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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 have used Stanford magnetic field maps to construct distributions of longitudinal magnetic field gradients in the neighbourhood of polarity inversion lines. The distributions were constructed with proper account of the type of the polarity inversion lines and of the existence or absence of dark filaments above them. It is shown that for polarity inversion lines that pass inside active regions or on their boundary, grad BII distributions for portions of the lines with persisting filament are shifted toward lower values of gradient as compared with grad BII distributions for portions of the lines without filaments. The influence of the spatial resolution of the magnetograms upon polarity inversion line characteristics is discussed. 相似文献
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Rakesh Mazumder 《天文和天体物理学研究(英文版)》2019,(6):43-50
A filament is a cool, dense structure suspended in the solar corona. The eruption of a filament is often associated with a coronal mass ejection(CME), which has an adverse effect on space weather. Hence,research on filaments has attracted much attention in the recent past. The tilt angle of active region(AR)magnetic bipoles is a crucial parameter in the context of the solar dynamo, which governs the conversion efficiency of the toroidal magnetic field to poloidal magnetic field. Filaments always form over polarity inversion lines(PILs), so the study of tilt angles for these filaments can provide valuable information about generation of a magnetic field in the Sun. We investigate the tilt angles of filaments and other properties using McIntosh Archive data. We fit a straight line to each filament to estimate its tilt angle. We examine the variation of mean tilt angle with time. The latitude distribution of positive tilt angle filaments and negative tilt angle filaments reveals that there is a dominance of positive tilt angle filaments in the southern hemisphere and negative tilt angle filaments dominate in the northern hemisphere. We study the variation of the mean tilt angle for low and high latitudes separately. Investigations of temporal variation with filament number indicate that total filament number and low latitude filament number vary cyclically, in phase with the solar cycle. There are fewer filaments at high latitudes and they also show a cyclic pattern in temporal variation. We also study the north-south asymmetry of filaments with different latitude criteria. 相似文献
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In this paper the effect of a small magnetic element approaching the main body of a solar filament is considered through non-linear
force-free field modeling. The filament is represented by a series of magnetic dips. Once the dips are calculated, a simple
hydrostatic atmosphere model is applied to determine which structures have sufficient column mass depth to be visible in Hα.
Two orientations of the bipole are considered, either parallel or anti-parallel to the overlying arcade. The magnetic polarity
that lies closest to the filament is then advected towards the filament. Initially for both the dominant and minority polarity
advected elements, right/left bearing barbs are produced for dextral/sinsitral filaments. The production of barbs due to dominant
polarity elements is a new feature. In later stages the filament breaks into two dipped sections and takes a highly irregular,
non-symmetrical form with multiple pillars. The two sections are connected by field lines with double dips even though the
twist of the field is less than one turn. Reconnection is not found to play a key role in the break up of the filament. The
non-linear force-free fields produce very different results to extrapolated linear-force free fields. For the cases considered
here the linear force-free field does not produce the break up of the filament nor the production of barbs as a result of
dominant polarity elements. 相似文献
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Leroy, Bommier, and Sahal-Bréchot (1984) determined the vector magnetic field in a large sample of quiescent prominences. The direction of the axial component is in general subject to a 180 deg uncertainty. We have selected those prominences in the sample whose field direction is unambiguous. For 95 such prominences, only 3 do not obey the hemispheric preferences of sinistral or dextral filaments, discovered by Martin, Tracadas, and Billamoria (1994). No explanation for the exceptional cases was found.A search of the Ottawa River Solar Observatory archives was made to check on the structural signatures of sinistral and dextral filaments. Of 32 filaments in common with the Leroy data set, 12 were classifiable as sinistral or dextral from their H fine structure and of these, 3 were exceptions to the hemispheric rule.Thus only a small percentage of quiescent filaments disobeys the hemispheric rule. 相似文献
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The magnetic structure of arch filament systems 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Edward N. Frazier 《Solar physics》1972,26(1):130-141
Photographic-type magnetograms are used in conjunction with H filtergrams to study the structure and evolution of magnetic fields associated with arch filament systems. The magnetograms show that the opposite ends of the arch filaments are indeed rooted in photospheric magnetic fields of opposite polarity. Furthermore, these magnetic field systems are in every case new magnetic flux appearing at the solar surface. Time lapse studies show the detailed process by which the flux tubes emerge through the surface. First, supergranules bring individual strands of magnetic flux to the surface and sweep the two feet of the flux tube to opposite sides of the supergranule. Then, the flux tube rises through the chromosphere, creating a visible arch filament. It is also shown that the observed rotation of the axis of an arch filament system in the plane of the solar surface is caused by the emergence of successive flux loops, each possessing different axial tilts. 相似文献
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Makarov V. I. Stoyanova M. N. Sivaraman K. R. 《Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy》1982,3(4):379-382
Ring-like filaments have been detected on the spectroheliograms in the H-alpha line. Inside these filaments the magnetic field
flux has a predominant polarity. Some of the dark filaments are connected by filament channels which can be seen at the limb
either as (a) weak prominences or (b) dense low chromospheric features or (c) multi-channel system of matter flow between
two prominences or (d) common quiescent prominences. The filament and the filament channel together form a continuous closed
contour and outline the region of thef polarity particularly at the beginning of the solar cycle. The change in sign of the polar field of the Sun is associated
with the drift of the filament band to high latitudes. 相似文献
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We propose a new model for the initiation of solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and CME-associated flares. The model is inferred from observations of a quiescent filament eruption in the north-western quadrant of the solar disk on 4 September 2000. The event was observed with the Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (5.7 GHz), the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (17 GHz) and SOHO/EIT and LASCO. Based on the observations, we suggest that the eruption could be caused by the interaction of two dextral filaments. According to our model, these two filaments merge together to form a dual-filament system tending to form a single long filament. This results in a slow upward motion of the dual-filament system. Its upward expansion is prevented by the attachment of the filaments to the photosphere by filament barbs as well as by overlying coronal arcades. The initial upward motion is caused by the backbone magnetic field (first driving factor) which connects the two merging filaments. Its magnetic flux increases slowly due to magnetic reconnection of the cross-interacting legs of these filaments. If a total length of the dual-filament system is large enough, then the filament barbs detach themselves from the solar surface due to magnetic reconnection between the barbs with oppositely directed magnetic fields. The detachment of the filament barbs completes the formation of the eruptive filaments themselves and determines the helicity sign of their magnetic fields. The appearance of a helical magnetic structure creates an additional upward-directed force (second driving factor). A combined action of these two factors causes acceleration of the dual-filament system. If the lifting force of the two factors is sufficient to substantially extend the overlying coronal magnetic arcade, then magnetic reconnection starts below the eruptive filament in accordance with the classical scheme, and the third driving factor comes into play. 相似文献
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Xing-Ming Bao Hong-Qi Zhang Jun Lin National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing National Astronomical Observatories / Yunnan Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Garden Street Cambridge MA USA 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2006,6(6):741-750
This work investigates a typical coronal mass ejection (CME) observed on 2003 February 18, by various space and ground instruments, in white light, Ha, EUV and X-ray. The Ha and EUV images indicate that the CME started with the eruption of a long filament located near the solar northwest limb. The white light coronal images show that the CME initiated with the rarefaction of a region above the solar limb and followed by the formation of a bright arcade at the boundary of the rarefying region at height 0.46 R(?) above the solar surface. The rarefying process synchronized with the slow rising phase of the eruptive filament, and the CME leading edge was observed to form as the latter started to accelerate. The lower part of the filament brightened in Ha as the filament rose to a certain height and parts of the filament was visible in the GOES X-ray images during the rise. These brightenings imply that the filament may be heated by the magnetic reconnection below the filament in the early stage of the eruption. We suggest that a possible mechanism which leads to the formation of the CME leading edge and cavity is the magnetic reconnection which takes place below the filament after the filament has reached a certain height. 相似文献
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Louise K. Harra 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2006,6(2):247-259
We revisit the Bastille Day flare/CME Event of 2000 July 14, and demonstrate that this flare/CME event is not related to only one single active region (AR). Activation and eruption of a huge transequatorial filament are seen to precede the simultaneous filament eruption and flare in the source active region, NOAA AR 9077, and the full halo-CME in the high corona. Evidence of reconfiguration of large-scale magnetic structures related to the event is illustrated by SOHO EIT and Yohkoh SXT observations, as well as, the reconstructed 3D magnetic lines of force based on the force-free assumption. We suggest that the AR filament in AR9077 was connected to the transequatorial filament. The large-scale magnetic composition related to the transequatorial filament and its sheared magnetic arcade appears to be an essential part of the CME parent magnetic structure. Estimations show that the filament-arcade system has enough magnetic helicity to account for the helicity carried by the related CMEs. In addition, rather global magnetic connectivity, covering almost all the visible range in longitude and a huge span in latitude on the Sun, is implied by the Nancay Radioheliograph (NRH) observations. The analysis of the Bastille Day event suggests that although the triggering of a global CME might take place in an AR, a much larger scale magnetic composition seems to be the source of the ejected magnetic flux, helicity and plasma. The Bastille Day event is the first described example in the literature, in which a transequatorial filament activity appears to play a key role in a global CME. Many tens of halo-CME are found to be associated with transequatorial filaments and their magnetic environment. 相似文献
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The hemispheric pattern of solar filaments is considered in the context of the global magnetic field of the solar corona.
In recent work Mackay and van Ballegooijen have shown how, for a pair of interacting magnetic bipoles, the observed chirality
pattern could be explained by the dominant range of bipole tilt angles and helicity in each hemisphere. This study aims to
test this earlier result through a direct comparison between theory and observations, using newly developed simulations of
the actual surface and 3D coronal magnetic fields over a 6-month period, on a global scale. We consider two key components:
(1) observations of filament chirality for the sample of 255 filaments and (2) our new simulations of the large-scale surface
magnetic field. Based on a flux-transport model, these will be used as the lower boundary condition for the future 3D coronal
simulations. Our technique differs significantly from those of other authors, where the coronal field is either assumed to
be purely potential or has to be reset back to potential every 27 days for the photospheric field to remain accurate. In our
case we ensure accuracy by the insertion of newly emerging bipolar active regions, based on observed photospheric synoptic
magnetograms. The large-scale surface field is shown to remain accurate over the 6-month period, without any resetting. This
new technique will enable future simulations to consider the long-term buildup and transport of helicity and shear in the
coronal magnetic field over many months or years. 相似文献
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By using Hα, He I 10830, EUV and soft X-ray (SXR) data, we examined a filament eruption that occurred on a quiet-sun region near the center of the solar disk on 2006 January 12, which disturbed a sigmoid overlying the filament channel observed by the GOES-12 SXR Imager (SXI), and led to the eruption of the sigmoid. The event was associated with a partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraphs (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and resulted in the formation of two flare-like ribbons, post-eruption coronal loops, and two transient coronal holes (TCHs), but there were no significantly recorded GOES or Hα flares corresponding to the eruption. The two TCHs were dominated by opposite magnetic polarities and were located on the two ends of the eruptive sigmoid. They showed similar locations and shapes in He Ⅰ 10830, EUV and SXR observations. During the early eruption phase, brightenings first appeared on the locations of the two subsequent TCHs, which could be clearly identified on He Ⅰ 10830, EUV and SXR images. This eruption could be explained by the magnetic flux rope model, and the two TCHs were likely to be the feet of the flux rope. 相似文献
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Xing-Ming Bao Hong-Qi ZhangNational Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing baoxm@sunlO.bao.ac.cn 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2003,3(1):87-97
We observed the line-of-sight magnetic field in the chromosphereand photosphere of a large quiescent filament on the solar disk on September 6, 2001 using the Solar Magnetic Field Telescope in Huairou Solar Observing Station. The chromospheric and photospheric magnetograms together with Hβ filtergrams of the filament were examined. The filament was located on the neutral line of the large scale longitudinal magnetic field in the photosphere and the chromosphere. The lateral feet of the filament were found to be related to magnetic structures with opposite polarities. Two small lateral feet are linked to weak parasitic polarity. There is a negative magnetic structure in the photosphere under a break of the filament. At the location corresponding to the filament in the chromospheric magnetograms, the magnetic strength is found to be about 40-70 Gauss (measuring error about 39 Gauss). The magnetic signal indicates the amplitude and orientation of the internal magnetic field in the filament. We discuss several possible causes which may produce such a measured signal. A twisted magnetic configuration inside the filament is suggested . 相似文献