Hα Dimming Associated With the Eruption of a Coronal Sigmoid in the Quiet Sun |
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| Authors: | Yunchun Jiang Huadong Chen Yuandeng Shen Liheng Yang Kejun Li |
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| Institution: | (1) National Astronomical Observatory/Yunnan Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 110, Kunming, 650011, China |
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| Abstract: | We report on the occurrence of Hα dimming associated with a sigmoid eruption in a quiet-sun region on 14 August 2001. The
coronal sigmoid in soft X-ray images from the Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope was located over an Hα filament channel. Its eruption was accompanied by a flare of GOES X-ray class
C2.3 and possibly associated with a halo coronal mass ejection (CME) observed with the Large Angle and Spectroscopic Coronagraphs (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). During the eruption, coronal bipolar double dimming took place at the regions with opposite magnetic polarities around
the two sigmoid ends, but the underlying chromospheric channel did not show observable changes corresponding to the coronal
eruption. Different from the erupting coronal sigmoid itself, however, the coronal dimming had a detectable chromosphere counterpart,
i.e., Hα dimming. By regarding the sigmoid as a coronal sign for a flux rope, these observations are explained in the framework
of the flux rope model of CMEs. The flux rope is possibly deeply rooted in the chromosphere, and the coronal and Hα dimming
regions mark its evacuated feet, through which the material is possibly fed to the halo CME. |
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