Microwave Observation of Eruptive Solar Events with and without Flare Activity

Details Microwave Observation of Eruptive Solar Events with and without Flare Activity Microwave Observation of Eruptive Solar Events with and without Flare Activity

Apr 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000apj...533..557h&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 533, Issue 1, pp. 557-567.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Corona, Sun: Filaments, Sun: Flares, Sun: Prominences, Sun: Radio Radiation

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We present microwave (17 GHz) observations of eruptive activity in four solar coronal events with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph. These are weak events occurring at or near the solar limb associated with several types of activity: polar crown activity, prominence eruptions, and arcade flares. The morphological evolutions of the microwave sources in these events show the following characteristic features in common. The activity starts as a mound-shaped source (1.0-4.5×104 km in height), above which a compact blob (<=1.0×104 km in size) appears later and expands horizontally toward the top of another low-lying mound. Finally a faint arch with a filamentary structure is formed, bridging the two mounds (0.2-2.0×105 km in horizontal scale size). Thus, the activity seems to propagate through the arch corridor from the initially activated mound to the secondary. During this process, the activity level increases, as indicated by an increase of the brightness temperature of the mound and the blob as well as by the formation of the arch and the eruption of the blob. These common features suggest that basically the same energy buildup and release process takes place in all four events, in spite of the large difference in the total released energy. Here we propose magnetic reconnection progressing in between the blob and the mound as the basic process, as indicated by high-temperature plasma there, seen in soft X-rays. Our findings support a theoretically predicted analogy between filament (or prominence) activity and flare onset.

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