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A&A
Volume 663, July 2022
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Article Number | A18 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | The Sun and the Heliosphere | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141868 | |
Published online | 04 July 2022 |
Temperature and differential emission measure evolution of a limb flare on 13 January 2015
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Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
e-mail: mbroese@aip.de; awarmuth@aip.de
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Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210
Japan
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Department of Space and Astronautical Science, School of Physical Sciences, SOKENDAI, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5210
Japan
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Key Laboratory of Dark Matter and Space Astronomy, Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 10 Yuanhua Road, Nanjing, 210023
PR China
7
School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, 230026
PR China
Received:
23
July
2021
Accepted:
19
April
2022
Context. Spatially unresolved observations show that the cooling phase in solar flares can be much longer than theoretical models predict. It has not yet been determined whether this is also the case for different subregions within the flare structure.
Aims. We aim to investigate whether or not the cooling times, which are observed separately in coronal loops and the supra-arcade fan (SAF), are in accordance with the existing cooling models, and whether the temperature and emission measure of supra-arcade downflows (SADs) are different from their surroundings.
Methods. We analysed the M5.6 limb flare on 13 January 2015 using SDO/AIA observations. We applied a differential emission measure (DEM) reconstruction code to derive spatially resolved temperature and emission measure maps, and used the output to investigate the thermal evolution of coronal loops, the SAF, and the SADs.
Results. In the event of 13 January 2015, the observed cooling times of the loop arcade and the SAF are significantly longer than predicted by the Cargill model, even with suppressed plasma heat conduction. The observed SADs show different temperature characteristics, and in all cases a lower density than their surroundings.
Conclusions. In the limb flare event studied here, continuous heating likely occurs in both loops and SAF during the gradual flare phase and leads to an extended cooling phase.
Key words: Sun: flares / Sun: corona / Sun: UV radiation
© M. Bröse et al. 2022
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