Magnetic Twist and Writhe of Delta Active Regions

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May 2005

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SH54B-03

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7513 Coronal Mass Ejections, 7519 Flares, 7524 Magnetic Fields, 7529 Photosphere

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Active regions with a δ magnetic configuration from 1996 to 2002 were selected to study how important a role the kink instability plays in such active regions. We employ the systematic tilt angle of each active region as a proxy for the writhe of a fluxtube and the force-free parameter, αbest, as a proxy for the magnetic field twist in the fluxtube. It is found that 65-67% of the 104 active regions have the same sign of twist and writhe, which violate the Hale-Nicholson and Joy's Laws (HNJL) or the hemispheric helicity rule (HHR). 68% (46/68) of these active regions produced more than five large flares. Active regions violating HNJL, but following HHR, have a much stronger tendency to produce X-class flares and/or strong proton events. Continuously clockwise rotation of magnetic configuration of a long-lived active region (AR 9604-9632-9672-9704-9738) which produced major flares, fast CMEs and many strong proton events shows that a kink instability would play very important role in such active regions. These results support the prediction for the presence of a kink instability, that the twist and writhe of the magnetic fields exhibit the same sign for δ active regions (Linton et al, 1998, 1999, and Fan et al., 1999). Finally, we analyze possible origins of the twist and writhe of the magnetic fields for the active regions with different relations between the twist and writhe.

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