Chirality of Intermediate Filaments and Magnetic Helicity of Active Regions

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2009-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0360v1

Astrophys.J.692:104-108,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/104

Filaments which form either between or around active regions (ARs) are called intermediate filaments. In spite of various theoretical studies, the origin of the chirality of filaments is still uncovered. We investigated how intermediate filaments are related to their associated ARs, especially from the point of view of magnetic helicity and the orientation of polarity inversion lines (PILs). The chirality of filaments has been determined based on the orientations of barbs observed in BBSO full-disk Halpha images taken during the rising phase of solar cycle 23. The sign of magnetic helicity of ARs has been determined using S/inverse-S shaped sigmoids from Yohkoh SXT images. As a result, we have found a good correlation between the chirality of filaments and the magnetic helicity sign of ARs. Among 45 filaments, 42 filaments have shown the same sign as helicity sign of nearby ARs. It has been also confirmed that the role of both the orientation and the relative direction of PILs to ARs in determining the chirality of filaments is not significant, against a theoretical prediction. These results suggest that the chirality of intermediate filaments may originate from magnetic helicity of their associated ARs.

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