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A. M. Gal’per B. I. Luchkov Yu. V. Ozerov S. B. Rinchinov A. M. Khodarovich 《Astronomy Reports》2000,44(6):389-400
We present an analysis of the temporal and spectral characteristics of high-energy (E>30 MeV) gamma-ray emission from solar flares in the 22nd solar-activity cycle obtained in the Gamma-1 experiment. The powerful flares of March 26, June 15, and October 27, 1991, are examined, as well as the weaker events of October 29 and December 8, 1991. Two emission phases are revealed in these flares: an active phase with individual, short bursts of radiation and a slow phase without such bursts. A qualitative scenario for the development of a solar gamma-ray flare is presented, based on the common temporal and spectral features of the observed flares and of simulation results. 相似文献
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The correlation between the magnetic flux in an active solar region and associated powerful solar flares is studied. The behavior
of the active regions AR 10486 and AR 10365 is considered. These regions produced a series of class X flares as they crossed
the solar disk. The flares appeared when the magnetic flux exceeded 1022 Mx. The magnetic flux remained constant during all the flares except for one. During this flare, the flux decreased by about
10%; this impulsive decrease of the flux was also recorded in the absence of flares. No energy flux from the photosphere to
the corona at the time of the flare was observed. The behavior of the photospheric field in AR 10486 and AR 10365 is consistent
with a slow accumulation of energy in the corona and the explosive release of energy stored in the magnetic field of a current
sheet above an active region during the flare. 相似文献
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Soft X-ray data for prolonged flares in subgiants in RS CVn binary systems and some other active late-type stars (AB Dor, Algol) are analyzed. During these nonstationary events, a large amount of hot plasma with temperatures exceeding 108 K exists for many hours. Numerical simulations of gas-dynamical processes in the X-ray source—giant loops—can yield reliable estimates of the plasma parameters and flare-source size. This confirms that such phenomena exist while considerable energy is supplied to the top part of a giant loop or system of loops. Refined estimates of the flare energy (up to 1037 erg) and scales contradict the widely accepted idea that prolonged X-ray flares are associated with the evolution of local magnetic fields. The energy of the current component of the large-scale magnetic field arising during the ejection of magnetic field by plasma jets or stellar wind is estimated. Two cases are considered: a global stellar field and fields connecting regions with oppositely directed unipolar magnetic fields. The inferred energy of the current component of the magnetic field associated with distortion of the initial MHD configuration is close to the total flare energy, suggesting that large-scale magnetic fields play an important role in prolonged flares. The flare process encompasses some portion of a streamer belt and may propagate along the entire magnetic equator of the star during the most powerful prolonged events. 相似文献
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A topological method for detecting the new emergence of magnetic flux using SOHO/MDI magnetograms of the full solar disk is
proposed. This method uses the number of pixels in the image that can be distinguished from a specified value to within a
predetermined threshold (the number of disconnected components). We study more than ten very powerful active regions (ARs)
with very high flare activity and show that the number of disconnected components increases directly before the development
of a series of M and X flares, or accompanies this process. This behaviour is evident not only when there is an explicit emergence
of a new flux and a series of fast flares, such as in AR 9236 (November 2000), but also in groups with many non-stationary
processes developing along a neutral line of the large-scale magnetic field. We also discuss the possibility of using the
obtained results for flare prediction. 相似文献
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Recent observations indicate that relatively strong plasma ejections are accompanied by the formation of systems of coronal loops with two glowing ribbons near their footpoints. However, while two-ribbon flares can sometimes last for many hours, for example, soft X rays, they sometimes decay within tens of minutes. We study here factors affecting the durations of flares using four major flares occurring in July 15–18, 2002, as examples. Various ground-based and satellite observations are used to show that short-duration events involved collimated (narrow) plasma ejections directed to the north and the subsequent formation of compact loops in the leading part of the active region. During one event, a powerful eastward ejection in a wide solid angle was followed by the formation of an extended arch system in the trailing part, which determined the long duration of the flare. It is proposed that in events involving collimated jets and corresponding narrow features in coronal mass ejections (CMEs), systems of coronal loops do form, but post-eruptive energy release either does not occur or is expressed very faintly. So the energy does not go downward from this region, and the plasma is emitted free in the coronal loops. In contrast to such rapid flares, wide ejections and bright, large-scale CMEs are accompanied by the formation and prolonged existence of an extended arch system. Thus, powerful nonstationary solar processes involve a large-scale CME and the flare itself, with the pattern of a particular event determined by the reconnection scenario and the evolution of the ejected plasma. 相似文献
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Powerful solar flares contain one or more impulsive events, plasma ejection, and the subsequent development of gigant post-eruptive loops. In the middle of the 1980s, Jakimiec proposed an analysis of the flare loops based on log T-1/2log EM diagrams constructed from the observed soft X-rays (the so-called Jakimiec model). We have used this method to construct and analyze these diagrams not for various arbitrary events, but instead for similar flares within a single center of activity; in other words, for homological flares (two-ribbon flares observed in November 2000, powerful prolonged events observed in October–November 2003, etc.). This eliminated the effect of differences in the magnetic configurations, enabling us to find a new relationship: the slope (tan α) of the logT-1/2log EM line during the flare decay depends on the maximum temperature T max at the source of the soft X-rays. The dependence of tan α on T max gradually evolves from a series of short flares to a series of powerful, prolonged, nonstationary processes. Our results support the idea that the development of post-eruptive loops depends on the energy of the impulsive events for the phenomenon as a whole. Explosive evaporation simultaneously increases both the temperature and the density of the plasma at the loop top. The subsequent evolution of the post-eruptive formations depends on the difference in the initial conditions and on the degree of opening of the magnetic configuration. The importance of our analysis for the duration of flares and differences between dimmings is briefly discussed. 相似文献
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Regular photometric observations of the two active flare stars EV Lac and AD Leo were carried out in 1996–1999. We have compared the location of the intrinsic radiation of the strongest flares in UBVRI two-color diagrams with those predicted by various models for the radiation sources. Our statistical analysis of flares in EV Lac confirms the 7.5-year activity cycle reported earlier. 相似文献
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Studies of the extreme solar proton event of January 20, 2005 intensified the contest over of a long-standing problem: are solar cosmic rays arriving at the Earth accelerated by solar flares or by shocks preceding rapidly moving coronal mass ejections? Among the most important questions is the relationship between the energy spectra of the solar cosmic rays and the frequency spectra of flare microwave bursts. Some studies of previous solar-activity cycles have shown that such a relationship does exist, in particular, for protons with energies of tens of MeV. The present work analyzes this relation using data for 1987–2008. For flare events observed in the western half of the disk, there is a significant correlation between the index δ, which is equivalent to the power-law index of the integrated energy spectrum of 10–100 MeV protons detected near the Earth’s orbit, and radio burst parameters such as a ratio of peak fluxes S at two frequencies (for example, at 9 and 15 GHz) and a microwave peak frequency f m . Proton fluxes with hard (flat) energy spectra (δ ≤ 1.5) correspond to hard microwave frequency spectra (S 9/S 15 ≤ 1 and f m ≥ 15 GHz), while flares with soft radio spectra (S 9/S 15 ≥ 1.5 and f m ≤ 5 GHz) result in proton fluxes with soft (steep) energy spectra (δ ≥ 1.5–2). It is also shown that powerful high-frequency bursts with the hardest radio spectra (f m ≈ 30 GHz) can point at acceleration of significant proton fluxes in flares occurring in strong magnetic fields. These results argue that solar cosmic rays (or at least their initial impulses) are mainly accelerated in flares associated with impulsive and post-eruptive energy release, rather than in shocks driven by coronal mass ejections. 相似文献
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An analysis of the dynamics of the electron temperature of the solar atmosphere in regions where solar flares appear is presented. The temperatures are estimated from the emission in spectral lines of ions with various degrees of ionization. The emission of ionized helium and highly ionized iron was used. Images of preflare states and of flares from the archive of the American SDO spacecraft are analyzed. A solar flare is usually preceded by the registration of a bright glowing structure above the action region, with a temperature exceeding that of the corona. This preflare structure (~1010 cm) is identified with the development of a system of currents, which, according to numerical simulations, is responsible for the accumulation of energy above the active region before the flare. After several tens of hours of a slow increase in the brightness of the preflare glow in the 94 Å iron (FeXVIII) line, the emission in the 193 Å line of FeXXIV increases sharply, indicating a flare-like growth of the temperature up to at least 20 MK. This growth of the emission coincides with the onset of the solar flare. The observed dynamics of the emission in spectral lines of highly ionized ions is consistent with an electrodynamic model of a solar flare based on the accumulation of magnetic energy in a current sheet above the active region and the explosive release of the stored energy. Studies of mechanisms for solar flares are of special importance in connection with the discovery of solar cosmic rays. Information from the worldwide network of neutron monitors and from the GOES spacecraft has made it possible to firmly state that the source of solar rays is solar flares, not shocks generated by such flares. It cannot be ruled out that a similar mechanism, not shocks, is also responsible for the acceleration of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. 相似文献
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V. V. Zaitsev A. G. Kislyakov S. Urpo A. V. Stepanov E. I. Shkelev 《Astronomy Reports》2003,47(10):873-882
Low-frequency pulsations of 22 and 37 GHz microwave radiation detected during solar flares are analyzed. Several microwave bursts observed at the Metsähovi Radio Observatory are studied with time resolutions of 100 and 50 ms. A fast Fourier transformation with a sliding window and the Wigner-Ville method are used to obtain frequency-time diagrams for the low-frequency pulsations, which are interpreted as natural oscillations of coronal magnetic loops; the dynamical spectra of the pulsations are synthesized for the first time. Three types of low-frequency fluctuations modulating the flare microwave radiation can be distinguished in the observations. First, there are fast and slow magneto-acoustic oscillations with periods of 0.5–0.8 s and 200–280 s, respectively. The fast magneto-acoustic oscillations appear as trains of narrow-band signals with durations of 100–200 s, a positive frequency drift dν/dt=0.25 MHz/min, and frequency splitting δν=0.01–0.05 Hz. Second, there are natural oscillations of the coronal magnetic loops as equivalent electrical circuits. These oscillations have periods of 0.5–10 s and positive or negative frequency drift rates dν/dt=8×10?3 Hz/min or dν/dt=?1.3×10?2 Hz/min, depending on the phase of the radio outburst. Third, there are modulations of the microwave radiation by short periodic pulses with a period of 20 s. The dynamical spectra of the low-frequency pulsations supply important information about the parameters of the magnetic loops: the ratio of the loop radius to its length r/L≈0.1, the plasma parameter β≈10?3, the ratio of the plasma densities outside and inside the loop ρe/ρi≈10?2, and the electrical current flowing along the loop I≈1012 A. 相似文献
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O. G. Den 《Astronomy Reports》2008,52(11):931-936
We analyze the flare events of October 28 and May 27, 2003 to examine the possible connection of solar flares with singularities in the differential characteristics of solar magnetic fields. The relation between flares and the behavior of F indicators (which describe structural singularities of the magnetic fields) introduced earlier is analyzed. It is shown that the generation of flares can be associated with self-intersections (or reconnection) of the F = 0 curves, where magnetic reconnection can occur. Consequently, the current sheets generated in such regions can be sources of energy release. 相似文献
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I. Yu. Grigor’eva A. N. Shakhovskaya M. A. Livshits I. S. Knyazeva 《Astronomy Reports》2012,56(11):887-894
Solar filtergrams obtained at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at the center and wings of the H?? line are used to study variations in filaments, in particular, in arch filament systems (AFSs). These are considered as an indicator of emerging new magnetic flux, providing information about the spatial locations of magnetic-field elements. Magnetic-field maps for the active region NOAA 10030 are analyzed as an example. A method developed earlier for detecting elements of emerging flux using SOHO/MDI magnetograms indicates a close link between the increase in flare activity in theNOAA 10030 group during July 14?C18, 2002 and variations in the topological disconnectedness of the magnetograms. Moreover, variations in the flare activity one day before a flare event are correlated with variations in the topological complexity of the field (the Euler characteristic) in regions with high field strengths (more than 700 G). Analysis of multi-wavelength polarization observations on the RATAN-600 radio telescope during July 13?C17, 2002 indicate dominance of the radio emission above the central spot associated with the increase in flare activity. In addition to the flare site near the large spot in the group, numerous weak flares developed along an extended local neutral line, far from the central line of the large-scale field. The statistical characteristics of the magnetic-field maps analyzed were determined, and show flare activity of both types, i.e., localized in spot penumbras and above the neutral line of the field. 相似文献
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We have begun an investigation of the possible origins of considerable of powerful solar flares. This effect is manifest, first and foremost, in the existence of high-temperature plasma in flare loops over many hours. Analysis of the soft X-ray emission in two energy bands detected by the GOES satellites for about 20 powerful solar flares reveals long time intervals during the decay phase when the source temperature decreases, in general, exponentially. The characteristic time t i for a decrease in the temperature by a factor of ten is 3–10 hours for most powerful events. In addition, another interval of very slow decrease with a characteristic time t i of tens of hours can be identified in some cases. We found a gradual change in the dependence of the temperature on the square root of the emission measure for the source as a whole, which characterizes the transition from purely coronal processes to powerful flares with a prolonged inflow of plasma from the chromosphere. Modeling the energy balance in a loop can yield the requirements for the source of plasma heating in a long-lived arch system. A necessary condition for the development of prolonged flares seems to be a powerful coronal mass ejection, which initiates the formation of a source of plasma heating at coronal heights. Our analysis shows that a considerable fraction of the energy is often released in the region of the cusp, and that systems of giant coronal arches rising to heights of about 100 000 km above the limb are formed in most prolonged events (called dynamical flares in the terminology of Svestka). 相似文献
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Regularities have been searched for in the dynamics of characteristics of flare solar radiation during the development of the active region NOAA 0069 in the interval of August 14–24, 2002. The SONG (Solar Neutrons and Gamma rays) instrument onboard the Russian CORONAS-F Solar Observatory recorded hard X-ray and gamma-ray radiation in nine of the 30 flares of class above C5 in this active region within the indicated time interval. It was obtained that, in accordance with the development of the active region, the X- and gamma-ray flux tended to increase at the flare maxima while the hard X-ray spectral index tended to decrease; flares with a harder radiation spectrum occurred in the sunspot umbra, i.e., in the region with the strongest magnetic fields. 相似文献
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Modeling of emission spectra of the flaring red dwarf EV Lac: Active regions,flares, and microflares
I. Yu. Alekseev É. A. Baranovskii R. E. Gershberg I. V. Il’in B. P. Pettersen D. N. Shakhovskoi M. Jablonsky 《Astronomy Reports》2003,47(4):312-325
Echelle spectrograms of the flaring red dwarf EV Lac obtained on the Nordic Optical Telescope are used to study the chromosphere of the star during the impulsive flare of 23:19 UT on August 30, 1994, and in two nearby time intervals when UBV RI photometry showed the star to be in a quiescent state. The high spectral resolution of the observations enabled the detection of broad Balmer emission wings in the nonflaring state, which are interpreted as evidence for microflares. Semiempirical models for active regions in the chromosphere, flares, and microflares are constructed and used to compare the main physical characteristics of these structures. The place of the detected microflares in the overall energetics of flare events in EV Lac is discussed. 相似文献
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We have carried out 3D MHD modeling of the solar corona above the active region AR 0365 before a series of flares observed on May 26–27, 2003. Maps of the evolving photospheric magnetic fields preceding the flares were used as boundary conditions. An emergence of new flux equal to ～1.5 × 1022 Maxwell preceded the observed series of X-ray flares. Modeling a large region 4 × 1010 cm in size demonstrates the formation of several current sheets in the vicinities of coronal Xlines, both already existing in the initial potential field and arising due to the emergence of the new magnetic flux. Each current sheet could be responsible for an elementary flare. 相似文献
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The dynamics of active regions have been investigated using multi-fractal analysis methods, based on magnetograms of the full solar disk in the 630.2 nm line obtained with the SOLIS vector spectromagnetograph of Kitt Peak Observatory (USA) during 2006?C2007 and January 1, 2009?CApril 12, 2010. The applied method of multi-fractal segmentation reveals the appearance of new magnetic fluxes on the Sun disk. A comparison of these fluxes with flare activity shows that the flares are generated in areas of interaction of emerging fluxes with existing structures. 相似文献
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M. A. Livshits I. Yu. Grigoryeva I. I. Myshyakov G. V. Rudenko 《Astronomy Reports》2016,60(10):939-948
Multi-wavelength observations and magnetic-field data for the solar flare of May 10, 2012 (04: 18 UT) are analyzed. A sign change in the line-of-sight magnetic field in the umbra of a small spot has been detected. This is at least partly associated with the emergence of a new magnetic field. A hard X-ray flare was recorded at almost the same time, and a “sunquake” was generated by the impact of the disturbance in the range of energy release on the photosphere. A sigmoid flare was recorded at the beginning of the event, but did not spread, as it usually does, along the polarity inversion (neutral) line. SDO/HMI full vectormagnetic-fieldmeasurements are used to extrapolate the magnetic field of AR 11476 into the corona, and to derive the distribution of vertical currents jz in the photosphere. The relationship between the distribution of currents in the active region and the occurrence of flares is quite complex. The expected “ideal” behavior of the current system before and after the flare (e.g., described by Sharykin and Kosovichev) is observed only in the sigmoid region. The results obtained are compared with observations of two other flares recorded in this active region on the same day, one similar to the discussed flare and the other different. The results confirm that the formation and eruption of large-scale magnetic flux ropes in sigmoid flares is associated with shear motions in the photosphere, the emergence of twisted magnetic tubes, and the subsequent development of the torus instability. 相似文献
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This work continues earlier statistical analyses of catalogued proton events in cosmic rays. The spectra of proton enhancements identified from the logarithm of the ratio of the proton fluxes with energies exceeding 100 and 10 MeV, δ = log(F 100/F 10), are studied focusing on 172 powerful events with favorable conditions for escaping from the corona and subsequent propagation in the interplanetary space. The δ distribution for the flares is Gaussian, with a comparatively weak spread in δ. The distribution maximum corresponds to an excess of the 10 MeV flux over the 100 MeV flux by a factor of 30. The fact such a frequent spectrum does exist supports the idea that both soft and hard protons are efficiently accelerated, probably by a single mechanism that operates during the explosive phases of the flares. The sizes of the loops of M2-X4 flares observed by the Yohkoh Hard X-Ray Telescope at energies exceeding 50 keV indicate low heights for the main acceleration regions. There is some excess over the Gaussian distribution for “softer” events. Some post-eruptive phenomena can be clearly distinguished in these events, and they display a correlation between δ and the total flare duration. Thus, there are two sources of the particle acceleration operating at low and high altitudes during the explosive and post-eruptive phases of the solar flares, respectively. The second source, which is manifested through some prolonged flares and filament-ejection phenomena, accelerates protons only to energies of 10–30 MeV. 相似文献
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M. A. Livshits D. V. Golovin L. K. Kashapova I. G. Mitrofanov A. S. Kozyrev M. L. Litvak A. B. Sanin V. I. Tret’yakov W. Boynton K. Shinohara D. Hamara 《Astronomy Reports》2011,55(6):551-560
A detailed study of two major solar flares that occurred in Group 10786 at the time of its disappearance behind the western limb is presented. The flares of July 14, 2005 were previously studied fairly poorly, as no RHESSI hard X-ray observations were available for themaxima of the twomost powerful of these flares. Observations carried out using the HEND equipment (on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft) developed at the Institute for Space Research in Moscow are used here to fill this gap. In the first flare, an intense, impulsive burst occurred at 07:23 UT, about 1.5 h after the onset of a weak, prolonged event. While processes in the neighborhood of the northern spot dominated in the flares of July 5–9, a powerful impulsive energy release on July 14 emerged when the flare process that originated in the North reached the southern spot. Our analysis of the flare activity of this medium-sized group reveals a gradual enhancement of the flare activity and a strong interaction between the acceleration above the magnetic-field neutral line and in the immediate vicinity of the spots. At the time of the culmination of the flare activity in the group on July 13 and 14, the pattern of nonstationary processes changes: fast coronal mass ejections form after a series of impulsive energy-release events. Spacecraft observations of the burst of July 14 after 11 UT at points separated in longitude (on RHESSI and Mars Odyssey) revealed clear anisotropy of the flare emission at energies exceeding 80 keV. 相似文献