The Origin of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Origin of Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings
المؤلفون: Kirk, Michael S., Balasubramaniam, K. S., Jackiewicz, Jason, Gilbert, Holly R.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: Sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs) are often observed in the immediate vicinity of erupting flares and are associated with coronal mass ejections. Since their initial discovery in 2005, there have been several subsequent investigations of SCBs. These studies have used differing detection and analysis techniques, making it difficult to compare results between studies. This work employs the automated detection algorithm of Kirk et al. (Solar Phys. 283, 97, 2013) to extract the physical characteristics of SCBs in 11 flares of varying size and intensity. We demonstrate that the magnetic substructure within the SCB appears to have a significantly smaller area than the corresponding H-alpha emission. We conclude that SCBs originate in the lower corona around 0.1 R_sun above the photosphere, propagate away from the flare center at speeds of 35 - 85 km/s, and have peak photosphere magnetic intensities of 148 +/- 2.9 G. In light of these measurements, we infer SCBs to be distinctive chromospheric signatures of erupting coronal mass ejections.
Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-017-1094-3
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03828
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1704.03828
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1007/s11207-017-1094-3