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A&A
Volume 529, May 2011
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Article Number | A127 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201016320 | |
Published online | 15 April 2011 |
Chromospheric velocities of a C-class flare⋆
Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
e-mail: pkeys02@qub.ac.uk
Received: 14 December 2010
Accepted: 10 March 2011
Aims. We use high spatial and temporal resolution observations from the Swedish Solar Telescope to study the chromospheric velocities of a C-class flare originating from active region NOAA 10969.
Methods. A time-distance analysis is employed to estimate directional velocity components in Hα and Ca ii K image sequences. Also, imaging spectroscopy has allowed us to determine flare-induced line-of-sight velocities. A wavelet analysis is used to analyse the periodic nature of associated flare bursts.
Results. Time-distance analysis reveals velocities as high as 64 km s-1 along the flare ribbon and 15 km s-1 perpendicular to it. The velocities are very similar in both the Hα and Ca ii K time series. Line-of-sight Hα velocities are red-shifted with values up to 17 km s-1. The high spatial and temporal resolution of the observations have allowed us to detect velocities significantly higher than those found in earlier studies. Flare bursts with a periodicity of ≈60 s are also detected. These bursts are similar to the quasi-periodic oscillations observed at hard X-ray and radio wavelength data.
Conclusions. Some of the highest velocities detected in the solar atmosphere are presented. Line-of-sight velocity maps show considerable mixing of both the magnitude and direction of velocities along the flare path. A change in direction of the velocities at the flare kernel has also been detected which may be a signature of chromospheric evaporation.
Key words: Sun: activity / Sun: chromosphere / Sun: flares
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