Revivals of a coronal arch
Revivals of a coronal arch
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冠状弓的复兴
DOI:
10.1007/bf00154819
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发表时间:
1984
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Z. Svestka
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作者:
Z. Svestka
The giant post-flare arch of 6 November 1980 revived 11 hr and 25 hr after its formation. Both these revivals were caused by two-ribbon flares with growing systems of loops. The first two brightenings of the arch were homologous events with brightness maxima moving upwards through the corona with rather constant speed; during all three brightenings the arch showed a velocity pattern with two components: a slow one (8–12 km−1), related to the moving maxima of brightness, and a fast one (∼ 35 km s−1), the source of which is unknown.During the first revival, at an altitude of 100000 km, temperature in the arch peaked ∼ 1 hr, brightness ∼ 2 hr, and emission measure ∼ 3.5 hr after the onset of the brightening. Thus the arch looks like a magnified flare, with the scales both in size and time increased by an order of magnitude. At ∼ 100000 km altitude the maximum temperature was ≃14 × 106K, max.ne≃ 2.5 × 109cm−3, and max. energy density ≃ 11.2 erg cm−3. The volume of the whole arch can be estimated to 1.1 × 1030 cm3, total energy ≃1.2 × 1031 erg, and total mass ≃4.4 × 1015g. The density decreased with the increasing altitude and remained below 7 × 109 cm−3 anywhere in the arch. The arch cooled very slowly through radiation whereas conductive cooling was inhibited. Since its onset the revived arch was subject to energy input within the whole extent of the preexisting arch while a thermal disturbance (a new arch?) propagated slowly from below.We suggest that the first heating of the revived arch was due to reconnection of some of the distended flare loops with the magnetic field of the old preexisting arch. The formation of the ‘post’-flare loop system was delayed and started only some 30–40 min later. Since that time a new arch began to be formed above the loops and the velocities we found reflect this formation.