Magnetic structure of an activated filament in a flaring active region
arXiv:1312.2781 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322481
Abstract
While the magnetic field in quiescent prominences has been widely investigated, less is known about the field in activated prominences. We introduce observational results on the magnetic field structure of an activated filament in a flaring active region. We study, in particular, its magnetic structure and line-of-sight flows during its early activated phase, shortly before it displays signs of rotation. We invert the Stokes profiles of the chromospheric He I 10830 A triplet and the photospheric Si I 10827 A line observed in this filament by the VTT on Tenerife. Using these inversion results we present and interpret the first maps of velocity and magnetic field obtained in an activated filament, both in the photosphere and the chromosphere. Up to 5 different magnetic components are found in the chromospheric layers of the filament, while outside the filament a single component is sufficient to reproduce the observations. Magnetic components displaying an upflow are preferentially located towards the centre of the filament, while the downflows are concentrated along its periphery. Also, the upflowing gas is associated with an opposite-polarity magnetic configuration with respect to the photosphere, while the downflowing gas is associated with a same-polarity configuration. The activated filament has a rather complex structure. Nonetheless, it is compatible with a flux rope, although with a distorted one, in the normal configuration. The observations are best explained by a rising flux rope in which a part of the filament material is still stably stored (upflowing material, rising with the field), while a part is no longer stably stored and flows down along the field lines.
Accepted for publication in A&A on Dec 4th 2013
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