Issue |
A&A
Volume 552, April 2013
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Article Number | A55 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220055 | |
Published online | 22 March 2013 |
Failed filament eruption inside a coronal mass ejection in active region 11121⋆
1
Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s
University,
Belfast, BT7 1NN,
Northern Ireland,
UK
e-mail:
dkuridze01@qub.ac.uk
2
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington,
Box 351580, Seattle, WA
98195,
USA
3
Air Force Research Laboratory, Solar and Solar Disturbances, Sunspot, NM
88349,
USA
4
Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory, Ilia State
University, G. Tsereteli
3, 0612
Tbilisi,
Georgia
5
Centre for mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, Mathematics
Department, KU Leuven,
Celestijnenlaan 200B bus 2400, 3001
Heverlee,
Belgium
Received: 19 July 2012
Accepted: 22 February 2013
Aims. We study the formation and evolution of a failed filament eruption observed in NOAA active region 11121 near the southeast limb on November 6, 2010.
Methods. We used a time series of SDO/AIA 304, 171, 131, 193, 335, and 94 Å images, SDO/HMI magnetograms, as well as ROSA and ISOON Hα images to study the erupting active region.
Results. We identify coronal loop arcades associated with a quadrupolar magnetic configuration, and show that the expansion and cancellation of the central loop arcade system over the filament is followed by the eruption of the filament. The erupting filament reveals a clear helical twist and develops the same sign of writhe in the form of inverse γ-shape.
Conclusions. The observations support the “magnetic breakout” process in which the eruption is triggered by quadrupolar reconnection in the corona. We propose that the formation mechanism of the inverse γ-shape flux rope is the magnetohydrodynamic helical kink instability. The eruption has failed because of the large-scale, closed, overlying magnetic loop arcade that encloses the active region.
Key words: Sun: corona / Sun: flares / Sun: magnetic topology / Sun: chromosphere / Sun: filaments, prominences / Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
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