Subsurface Vorticity of Flaring versus Flare-Quiet Active Regions

Details Subsurface Vorticity of Flaring versus Flare-Quiet Active Regions Subsurface Vorticity of Flaring versus Flare-Quiet Active Regions

Feb 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011soph..268..389k&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 268, Issue 2, pp.389-406

Physics

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Active Regions, Velocity Field, Helioseismology, Observations, Interior, Convective Zone, Velocity Fields, Interior, Flares

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We apply discriminant analysis to 1023 active regions and their subsurface-flow parameters, such as vorticity and kinetic helicity density, with the goal of distinguishing between flaring and non-flaring active regions. We derive synoptic subsurface flows by analyzing GONG high-resolution Doppler data with ring-diagram analysis. We include magnetic-flux values in the discriminant analysis derived from NSO Kitt Peak and SOLIS synoptic maps binned to the same spatial scale as the helioseismic analysis. For each active region, we determine the flare information from GOES and include all flares within 60° central meridian distance to match the coverage of the ring-diagram analysis. The subsurface-flow characteristics improve the ability to distinguish between flaring and non-flaring active regions. For the C- and M-class flare category, the most important subsurface parameter is the so-called structure vorticity, which estimates the horizontal gradient of the horizontal-vorticity components. The no-event skill score, which measures the improvement over predicting that no events occur, reaches 0.48 for C-class flares and 0.32 for M-class flares, when the structure vorticity at three depths combined with total magnetic flux are used. The contributions come mainly from shallow layers within about 2 Mm of the surface and layers deeper than about 7 Mm.

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