Observations of conduction driven evaporation in the early rise phase of solar flares
arXiv:0903.2754 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811196
Abstract
In the classical flare picture, hard X-ray emission from the chromosphere is succeeded by soft-X-ray emission from hot plasma in the flare loop, the soft X-ray emission being a direct consequence of the impact of the non-thermal particle beam. However, observations of events exist in which a pronounced increase in soft X-ray emission is observed minutes before the onset of the hard X-ray emission. Such pre-flare emission clearly contradicts the classical flare picture. For the first time, the pre-flare phase of such solar flares is studied in detail. We want to explain the time evolution of the observed emission by means of alternative energy transport mechanisms such as heat conduction. RHESSI events displaying pronounced pre-flare emission were analyzed in imaging and spectroscopy. The pre-flare phase is characterized by purely thermal emission from a coronal source with increasing emission measure and density. After this earliest phase, a small non-thermal tail to higher energies appears in the spectra, becoming more and more pronounced. However, images still only display one X-ray source, implying that this non-thermal emission is coronal. The increase of emission measure and density indicates that material is added to the coronal region. The most plausible origin is evaporated material from the chromosphere. Energy provided by a heat flux is capable of driving chromospheric evaporation.
10 pages, 7 figures, A&A, accepted
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