Chirality of Chromospheric Filaments

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Sep 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003apj...595..500p&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 595, Issue 1, pp. 500-505.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

39

Sun: Filaments, Sun: Magnetic Fields

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We use the chromospheric full-disk Hα observations to study the chirality of 2310 filaments from 2000-2001. For each filament, we identify the spine and its barbs and determine the filament chirality as fraction of dextral/sinistral barbs of the total number of barbs. We find that 80.2% (558 out of 696) of quiescent filaments in the northern hemisphere are dextral and 85.5% (633 out of 740) of filaments in southern hemisphere are sinistral, in agreement with the well-known hemispheric helicity rule. Our data also show that the active-region filaments follow the same rule, though the hemispheric dependence is weaker: 74.9% (338 out of 451) of active-region filaments in the northern hemisphere are dextral, and 76.7% (297 out of 387) of filaments in the southern hemisphere are sinistral. We show that quiescent filaments formed on leading and returning arms of the same switchback exhibit the same chirality. We also investigate a possible change in the hemispheric rule with polarity reversal of the polar field, and we find no such change.

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