Evolution of Currents of Opposite Signs in the Flare Productive Solar Active Region NOAA 10930

Details Evolution of Currents of Opposite Signs in the Flare Productive Solar Active Region NOAA 10930 Evolution of Currents of Opposite Signs in the Flare Productive Solar Active Region NOAA 10930

2011-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/1108.5818v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

24 pages, 6 figures, Submitted to Astrophysical Journal

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Analysis of a time series of high spatial resolution vector magnetograms of the active region NOAA 10930 available from SOT/SP on-board Hinode revealed that there is a mixture of upward and downward currents in the two foot-points of an emerging flux-rope. The flux emergence rate is almost the same in both the polarities. We observe that along with an increase in magnetic flux, the net current in each polarity increases initially for about three days after which it decreases. This net current is characterized by having exactly opposite signs in each polarities while its magnitude remains almost the same most of the time. The decrease of net current in both the polarities is due to the increase of current having a sign opposite to that of the net current. The dominant current, with same sign as the net current, is seen to increase first and then decreases during the major X-class flares. Evolution of non-dominant current appears to be a necessary condition for a flare initiation. The above observations can have a plausible explanation in terms of the superposition of two different force-free states resulting in non-zero Lorentz force in the corona. This Lorentz force then push the coronal plasma and might facilitate the magnetic reconnection required for flares. Also, the evolution of the net current is found to follow the evolution of magnetic shear at the polarity inversion line.

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