Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-10-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
20 pages, 7 figures
Scientific paper
10.1007/s11207-009-9488-5
We present a technique for automatic determination of flare-ribbon separation and the energy released during the course of two-ribbon flares. We have used chromospheric H$\alpha$ filtergrams and photospheric line-of-sight magnetograms to analyse flare-ribbon separation and magnetic-field structures, respectively. Flare-ribbons were first enhanced and then extracted by the technique of "region growing", i.e., a morphological operator to help resolve the flare-ribbons. Separation of flare-ribbons was then estimated from magnetic polarity reversal line using an automatic technique implemented into Interactive Data Language (IDL\tm) platform. Finally, the rate of flare-energy release was calculated using photospheric magnetic-field data and the corresponding separation of the chromospheric H$\alpha$ flare-ribbons. This method could be applied to measure the motion of any feature of interest (e.g., intensity, magnetic, Doppler) from a given point of reference.
Ambastha Ashok
Maurya Ram Ajor
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