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The Yohkoh hard X-ray telescope (HXT) observed hard X-rays from the impulsive phase of a long-duration event (LDE) occurring on 14 July
2000. The Yohkoh soft X-ray telescope (SXT) and other instruments observed a large arcade, with width and length ∼30 000 km and ∼120 000 km,
respectively. In hard X-rays, for the first time, a two-ribbon structure was clearly observed in the energy range above 30 keV.
This result suggests that electrons are in fact accelerated in the whole system of this arcade, not merely in a particular
dominant loop. We analyzed the motions of bright kernels in the two hard X-ray ribbons in detail. Assuming these bright kernels
to be footpoints of newly reconnected loops, we infer from their motions that the loops reconnecting early are highly sheared,
while the loops reconnecting later are less sheared. We have also analyzed the hard X-ray spectra of the two ribbons independently.
At the outer edge of a ribbon, the spectrum tends to be harder than that in the inner edge. This suggests that higher-energy
electrons precipitate at the footpoints of outer loops and lower ones do at those of inner loops. We discuss what kind of
model can support this tendency. 相似文献
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A spectacular change in the lower corona on the south-west limb has been found in solar images taken by the Yohkoh soft X-ray telescope. The event is characterized by a large topological change in magnetic field and a large intensity decrease observed after the X1. 1/1B flare on 9 November, 1991. A coronal mass ejection (CME) was observed by the Mark III K-coronameter (MK3) at the HAO/Mauna Loa Observatory. Both the MK3 (white-light) and soft X-ray observations showed that one leg of this CME was located above the flare site. An interplanetary shock associated with this event was observed by Pioneer Venus Orbiter, and, possibly, by IMP-8.Also Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A. 相似文献
3.
E. Palmerio E. K. J. Kilpua A. W. James L. M. Green J. Pomoell A. Isavnin G. Valori 《Solar physics》2017,292(2):39
A key aim in space weather research is to be able to use remote-sensing observations of the solar atmosphere to extend the lead time of predicting the geoeffectiveness of a coronal mass ejection (CME). In order to achieve this, the magnetic structure of the CME as it leaves the Sun must be known. In this article we address this issue by developing a method to determine the intrinsic flux rope type of a CME solely from solar disk observations. We use several well-known proxies for the magnetic helicity sign, the axis orientation, and the axial magnetic field direction to predict the magnetic structure of the interplanetary flux rope. We present two case studies: the 2 June 2011 and the 14 June 2012 CMEs. Both of these events erupted from an active region, and despite having clear in situ counterparts, their eruption characteristics were relatively complex. The first event was associated with an active region filament that erupted in two stages, while for the other event the eruption originated from a relatively high coronal altitude and the source region did not feature a filament. Our magnetic helicity sign proxies include the analysis of magnetic tongues, soft X-ray and/or extreme-ultraviolet sigmoids, coronal arcade skew, filament emission and absorption threads, and filament rotation. Since the inclination of the post-eruption arcades was not clear, we use the tilt of the polarity inversion line to determine the flux rope axis orientation and coronal dimmings to determine the flux rope footpoints, and therefore, the direction of the axial magnetic field. The comparison of the estimated intrinsic flux rope structure to in situ observations at the Lagrangian point L1 indicated a good agreement with the predictions. Our results highlight the flux rope type determination techniques that are particularly useful for active region eruptions, where most geoeffective CMEs originate. 相似文献
4.
We analyze in detail the X2.6 flare that occurred on 2005 January 15 in the NOAA AR 10720 using multiwavelength observations. There are several interesting properties of the flare that reveal possible two-stage magnetic reconnection similar to that in the physical picture of tether-cutting, where the magnetic fields of two separate loop systems reconnect at the flare core region, and subsequently a large flux rope forms, erupts, and breaks open the overlying arcade fields. The observed manifestations include: (1) remote Hα brightenings appear minutes before the main phase of the flare; (2) separation of the flare ribbons has a slow and a fast phase, and the flare hard X-ray emission appears in the later fast phase; (3) rapid transverse field enhancement near the magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL) is found to be associated with the flare. We conclude that the flare occurrence fits the tether-cutting reconnection picture in a special way, in which there are three flare ribbons outlining the sigmoid configuration. We also discuss this event in the context of what was predicted by Hudson et al. (2008), where the Lorentz force near the flaring PIL drops after the flare and consequently the magnetic field lines there turn to be more horizontal as we observed. 相似文献
5.
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 have analyzed five solar energetic particle (SEP) events observed aboard the SOHO spacecraft during 1996–1997. All events
were associated with impulsive soft X-ray flares, Type II radio bursts and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Most attention is
concentrated on the SEP acceleration during the first 100 minutes after the flare impulsive phase, post-impulsive-phase acceleration,
being observed in eruptions centered at different solar longitudes. As a representative pattern of a (nearly) well-connected
event, we consider the west flare and CME of 9 July 1996 (S10 W30). Similarities and dissimilarities of the post-impulsive-phase
acceleration at large heliocentric-angle distance from the eruption center are illustrated with the 24 September 1997 event
(S31 E19). We conclude that the proton acceleration at intermediate scales, between flare acceleration and interplanetary
CME-driven shock acceleration, significantly contributes to the production of ≳10 MeV protons. This post-impulsive-phase acceleration
seems to be caused by the CME lift-off. 相似文献
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J. P. McGuire E. Tandberg-Hanssen K. R. Krall S. T. Wu J. B. Smith D. M. Speich 《Solar physics》1977,52(1):91-100
A large long-lived soft X-ray emitting arch system was observed during the last Skylab mission. This arcade stayed in the same approximate position for several solar rotations. We suggest that these long-lived arches owe their stability to the stable coronal magnetic-field configuration. A global constant force-free magnetic field analysis, as developed by Nakagawaet al. (1977), is used to describe the arches, and results in a marked resemblance between the theoretical magnetic-field configuration and the observed X-ray emitting feature. 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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T. Takakura K. Ohki T. Sakurai J. L. Wang J. Y. Xuan S. C. Li R. Y. Zhao 《Solar physics》1984,94(2):359-367
An intense solar X-ray burst occurred on April 1, 1981. X-ray images of this gradual hard X-ray burst were observed with the hard X-ray telescope aboard the Hinotori satellite for the initial ten minutes of rise and maximum phases of the burst. The hard X-ray images (13–29 keV) look like a large loop without considerable time variation of an elongated main source during the whole observation period. The main X-ray source seems to lie along a ridge of a long coronal arcade 2 × 104 km above a neutral line, while a tangue-like sub-source may be another large coronal loop although the whole structure of the X-ray source looks like a large semi-circular loop. Both nonthermal and hot thermal (3–4 × 107 K) electrons are contributing to the source image. The ratio of these components changed in a wide range from 2.3 to 0.4 during the observation, while the image was rather steady. It suggests that both heating and accelerations of electrons are occurring simultaneously in a common source. Energetic electrons of 15–30 keV would be collisionally trapped in the coronal magnetic loops with density of the order of 1011 cm–3. 相似文献
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Observations of a rare long-duration solar event of GOES class X1.2 from 26?October 2003 are presented. This event showed a pronounced burst of hard X-ray and microwave emission, which was extremely delayed (>?60?min) with respect to the main impulsive phase and did not have any significant response visible in soft X-ray emission. We refer to this phenomenon as a ??burst-on-tail??. Based on TRACE observations of the growing flare arcade and some simplified estimation, we explain why a reaction of active region plasma to accelerated electrons may change drastically over time. We suggest that, during the ??burst-on-tail??, non-thermal electrons were injected into magnetic loops of larger spatial scale than during the impulsive phase bursts, thus resulting in much smaller values of plasma temperature and emission measure in their coronal volume, and hence little soft X-ray flux. The?nature of the long gap between the main impulsive phase and the ??burst-on-tail?? is, however, still an open question. 相似文献
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Hei 10830 Å spectroheliograms of a major 3N two-ribbon flare occurring in Boulder Region 3885/3886 early on 4 September, 1982 are discussed and compared with H and soft X-ray observations of the event. This flare, observed for more than 60 hr in Hei 10830, was associated with the eruption of a large filament in the active region complex, the formation of coronal holes, a long-duration soft X-ray event, and was the probable source of a earthward coronal mass ejection and the largest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle. The results of this study suggest the Hei flare is a chromospheric manifestation of the X-ray coronal loop structures associated with flares.Visitor, National Solar Observatory, operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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S. Vargas Domínguez D. MacTaggart L. Green L. van Driel-Gesztelyi A. W. Hood 《Solar physics》2012,278(1):33-45
Recent studies of NOAA active region 10953, by Okamoto et al. (Astrophys. J. Lett.
673, 215, 2008; Astrophys. J.
697, 913, 2009), have interpreted photospheric observations of changing widths of the polarities and reversal of the horizontal magnetic
field component as signatures of the emergence of a twisted flux tube within the active region and along its internal polarity
inversion line (PIL). A filament is observed along the PIL and the active region is assumed to have an arcade structure. To
investigate this scenario, MacTaggart and Hood (Astrophys. J. Lett.
716, 219, 2010) constructed a dynamic flux emergence model of a twisted cylinder emerging into an overlying arcade. The photospheric signatures
observed by Okamoto et al. (2008, 2009) are present in the model although their underlying physical mechanisms differ. The model also produces two additional signatures
that can be verified by the observations. The first is an increase in the unsigned magnetic flux in the photosphere at either
side of the PIL. The second is the behaviour of characteristic photospheric flow profiles associated with twisted flux tube
emergence. We look for these two signatures in AR 10953 and find negative results for the emergence of a twisted flux tube
along the PIL. Instead, we interpret the photospheric behaviour along the PIL to be indicative of photospheric magnetic cancellation
driven by flows from the dominant sunspot. Although we argue against flux emergence within this particular region, the work
demonstrates the important relationship between theory and observations for the successful discovery and interpretation of
signatures of flux emergence. 相似文献
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Morita Satoshi Uchida Yutaka Hirose Shigenobu Uemura Shuhei Yamaguchi Tomotaka 《Solar physics》2001,200(1-2):137-156
In February 1992, three flares, which we consider constitute a homologous flare series (flares having basically the same configuration repeating in the same situation), occurred in the active region NOAA 7070 and were observed by Yohkoh SXT. In the present paper, we first discuss the homology of these three flares, and derive the 3D structure by making use of the information obtained from the three different lines of sight at common phases. The result of this analysis made clear for the first time that the so-called `cusped arcade' at the maximum phase in the well-known 21 February 1992 flare is, contrary to the general belief, an `elongated arch' created at the beginning of the flare, seen with a shallow oblique angle. It is not the `flare arcade' seen on axis as widely conceived. This elongated arch roughly coincides with a diagonal of the main body of the soft X-ray arcade that came up later. The magnetic structure responsible for the flare as a whole turned out to be a structure with quadruple magnetic sources – with the third and fourth sources also playing essential roles. The observationally derived information in our paper provides strong restrictions to the theoretical models of the process occurring in arcade flares. 相似文献
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I. Y. Grigoryeva V. N. Borovik M. A. Livshits V. E. Abramov-Maximov L. V. Opeikina V. M. Bogod A. N. Korzhavin 《Solar physics》2009,260(1):157-175
A CME/flare event occurred at the eastern limb on 25 January, 2007. Seven successive multi-wavelength scans in the range 1.8 cm?–?5.0 cm were obtained with the RATAN-600 radio telescope starting just at the beginning of the post-eruptive arcade formation (30 min after a C6.3 flare peak) and lasting for 3.5 hours. The conditions were favorable to study the off-limb microwave radio source associated with the post-eruptive arcade in different phases of its formation. Microwave radio emission of the arcade was rather intense initially and then considerably decreased; its maximum was co-spatial with the 195 Å Fe xii loop tops. The RATAN-600 total flux spectra of the off-limb radio source were practically flat during the first two hours indicating a predominant contribution of thermal emission. The X-ray spectrum was thermal (according to RHESSI data) at that time. Data available in the meter wavelength range during this phase were indicative of weak non-thermal processes likely due to accelerated particles. However, free?–?free emission of an isothermal source dominated in microwaves. This is indicative of the presence of a large amount of plasma in the region of arcade formation at the initial stage of the event. The weak microwave emission during the decay phase might be interpreted as the thermal cyclotron emission of the loops in the arcade. 相似文献
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Jiayan Yang Yunchun Jiang Bo Yang Junchao Hong Dan Yang Yi Bi Ruisheng Zheng Haidong Li 《New Astronomy》2012,17(8):732-738
By means of Hα, EUV, soft X-ray, hard X-ray, and photospheric magnetic field observations, we report the surge-like eruption of a small-scale filament, called “blowout surge” according to recent observations, occurring on a plage region around AR 10876 on 1 May 2006. Along magnetic polarity reversal boundaries with obvious magnetic cancelations, the filament was located underneath a compact coronal arcade and close to one end of large coronal loops around the AR’s periphery. The filament started to erupt about 8 min before the main impulsive phase of a small two-ribbon flare, which had two Hα blue-wing kernels connected by hard X-ray loop-top sources on the both sides of the filament. After the flare end, the filament further underwent a distant eruption following a path nearly along the preexisting large loops, and thus looked like an Hα surge and an EUV jet. During the eruption, a small coronal dimming was formed near the flare, while weak brightenings appeared around the remote end of the large loops. We interpret these joint observations as the filament eruption being confined and guided by the large loops. The filament eruption, initially embedded in one footpoint region of the large loops, can break away from the magnetic restraint of the overlying compact arcade, but might be still limited inside the large loops. As a result, the eruption took a surge form that can only expand laterally along the large loops rather than erupt radially. 相似文献
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Two small radio flares following the great gamma-ray burst on 11 June 1991 are studied. We analyse the different association of emission features at microwaves, decimeter waves, and soft and hard X-rays for the events. The first flare has well-defined emission features in microwaves and soft and hard X-rays, and a faint decimetric signature well after the hard X-ray burst. It is not certain if the decimetric event is connected to the burst features. The second event is characterized by an almost simultaneous appearance of hard X-ray burst maxima and decimetric narrowband drift bursts, but soft X-ray emission is missing from the event. With the exception of the possibility that the soft X-ray emission is absorbed along the way, the following models can explain the reported differences in the second event: (1) Microwave emission in the second event is produced by 150 keV electrons spiraling in the magnetic field relatively low in the corona, while the hard X-ray emission is produced at the beginning of the burst near the loop top as thick-target emission. If the bulk of electrons entered the loop, the low-energy electrons would not be effectively mirrored and would eventually hit the footpoints and cause soft X-ray emission by evaporation, which was not observed. The collisions at the loop top would not produce observable plasma heating. The observed decimetric type III bursts could be created by plasma oscillations caused by electron beams traveling along the magnetic field lines at low coronal heights. (2) Microwave emission is caused by electrons with MeV energies trapped in the large magnetic loops, and the electrons are effectively mirrored from the loop footpoints. The hard X-ray emission can come both from the loop top and the loop footpoints as the accelerated lower energy electrons are not mirrored. The low-energy electrons are not, however, sufficient to create observable soft X-ray emission. The type III emission in this case could be formed either at low coronal heights or in local thick regions in the large loops, high in the corona. 相似文献
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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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A time series of K3 spectroheliograms taken at the Coimbra Observatory exhibits an erupting loop on the east limb on July 9, 1982 in active region NOAA 3804. The Goddard SMM Hard X-Ray Burst Spectrometer (HXRBS) observations taken during this period reveal a hard X-ray flare occurring just before the loop eruption is observed, and SMS-GOES soft X-ray observations reveal a strong long-duration event (LDE) following the impulsive phase of the flare. A Solwind coronagram exhibits a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the erupting loop. H flare and prominence observations as well as centimeter and decimeter radio observations of the event are also reviewed. A large, north–south-oriented quiescent prominence reported within the upper part of the CME expansion region may play a role in the eruption as well. The spatial and temporal correlations among these observations are examined in the light of two different current models for prominence eruption and CME activation: (1) The CME is triggered by the observed hard X-ray impulsive flare. (2) The CME is not triggered by a flare, and the observed soft X-ray flare is an LDE due to reconnection within the CME bubble. It is concluded that this event is probably of a mixed type that combines characteristics of models (1) and (2). The July 9 event is then compared to three other energetic CME and flare eruptions associated with the same active-region complex, all occurring in the period July 9 through September 4, 1982. It is noted that these four energetic events coincide with the final evolutionary phase of a long-lasting active-region complex, which is discussed in a companion paper (Bumba, Garcia, and Jordan, 1997). The paper concludes by addressing the solar flare myth controversy in the light of this work. 相似文献
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The 2B/X2.8 double-ribbon flare of 30 March, 1982 is investigated using H, white light, X-rays, and microwaves. The X-ray burst seems to consist of two components, i.e., an impulsive component showing a long chain of peaks and a thermal component (T 2 × 107 K).In the early phase, the source images for the impulsive component were available simultaneously at soft (7–14 keV) and hard (20–40 keV) X-rays. Both sources are elongated along a neutral line. The core of the source for the hard X-rays is located at one end which seems to be a footpoint (or a leg) of a loop or arcade, while the core for the soft X-rays is located at the center of the elongated source which would be the center of the loop. The core for the hard X-rays shifted to this center in the main and later phase, accompanied by decrease in the source size in the later phase.A peak of one-directional intensity distribution at 35 GHz always lies on the core of the hard X-ray source, showing a shift of the position synchronous with the hard X-ray core. This may imply a common source for the radio waves and the hard X-rays.The source of the thermal component observed at the soft X-rays (7–14 keV) after the early phase covers a whole H patches. This may imply a physical relation between the thermal X-ray loops and the H brightening. 相似文献
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We study active region NOAA 9684 (N06L285) which produced an X1.0/3B flare on November 4, 2001 associated with a fast CME
(1810 km s−1) and the largest proton event (31 700 pfu) in cycle 23. SOHO/MDI continuum image data show that a large leading sunspot rotated
counter-clockwise around its umbral center for at least 4 days prior to the flare. Moreover, it is found from SOHO/MDI 96
m line-of-sight magnetograms that the systematic tilt angle of the bipolar active region, a proxy for writhe of magnetic fluxtubes,
changed from a positive value to a negative one. This signifies a counter-clockwise rotation of the spot-group as a whole.
Using vector magnetograms from Huairou Solar Observing Station (HSOS), we find that the twist of the active region magnetic
fields is dominantly left handed (αbest = −0.03), and that the vertical current and current helicity are predominantly negative, and mostly distributed within the
positive rotating sunspot. The active region exhibits a narrow inverse S-shaped Hα filament and soft X-ray sigmoid distributed along the magnetic neutral line. The portion of the filament which is most closely
associated with the rotating sunspot disappeared on November 4, and the corresponding portion of the sigmoid was observed
to erupt, producing the flare and initiating the fast CME and proton event. These results imply that the sunspot rotation
is a primary driver of helicity production and injection into the corona. We suggest that the observed active region dynamics
and subsequent filament and sigmoid eruption are driven by a kink instability which occurred due to a large amount of the
helicity injection. 相似文献