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A&A
Volume 647, March 2021
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Article Number | A85 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | The Sun and the Heliosphere | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040042 | |
Published online | 16 March 2021 |
Observations of a prominence eruption and loop contraction⋆
1
Department of Physics, DSB Campus, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 001, India
e-mail: setiapooja.ps@gmail.com
2
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, 5 Place Jules Janssen, 92190 Meudon, France
3
Laboratoire Cogitamus, 1 3/4 Rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France
4
Centre for Mathematical Plasma Astrophysics, Dept. of Mathematics, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
5
Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur 313004, India
Received:
1
December
2020
Accepted:
7
January
2021
Context. Prominence eruptions provide key observations to understand the launch of coronal mass ejections as their cold plasma traces a part of the unstable magnetic configuration.
Aims. We select a well observed case to derive observational constraints for eruption models.
Methods. We analyze the prominence eruption and loop expansion and contraction observed on 02 March 2015 associated with a GOES M3.7 class flare (SOL2015-03-02T15:27) using the data from Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). We study the prominence eruption and the evolution of loops using the time-distance techniques.
Results. The source region is a decaying bipolar active region where magnetic flux cancellation is present for several days before the eruption. AIA observations locate the erupting prominence within a flux rope viewed along its local axis direction. We identify and quantify the motion of loops in contraction and expansion located on the side of the erupting flux rope. Finally, RHESSI hard X-ray observations identify the loop top and two foot-point sources.
Conclusions. Both AIA and RHESSI observations support the standard model of eruptive flares. The contraction occurs 19 min after the start of the prominence eruption indicating that this contraction is not associated with the eruption driver. Rather, this prominence eruption is compatible with an unstable flux rope where the contraction and expansion of the lateral loop is the consequence of a side vortex developing after the flux rope is launched.
Key words: Sun: filaments / prominences / Sun: magnetic fields / Sun: flares
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