A giant quiescent solar filament observed with high-resolution spectroscopy
arXiv:1603.02505 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526636
Abstract
A giant, quiet-Sun filament was observed with the high-resolution Echelle spectrograph at the Vacuum Tower Telescope at Observatorio del Teide on 2011 November 15. A mosaic of spectra (10 maps of 100" X 182") was recorded simultaneously in the chromospheric absorption lines H-alpha and Na I D2. Physical parameters of the filament plasma were derived using Cloud Model (CM) inversions and line core fits. The spectra were complemented with full-disk filtergrams (He I 10830 A, H-alpha, and Ca II K) of the Chromspheric Telescope (ChroTel) and full-disk magnetograms of HMI. The filament had extremely large linear dimensions (817"), which corresponds to about 658 Mm along a great circle on the solar surface. A total amount of 175119 H-alpha contrast profiles were inverted using the CM approach. The inferred mean line-of-sight (LOS) velocity, Doppler width, and source function were similar to previous works of smaller quiescent filaments. However, the derived optical thickness was larger. LOS velocity trends inferred from the H-alpha line core fits were in accord, but smaller, than the ones obtained with CM inversions. Signatures of counter-streaming flows were detected in the filament.The largest conglomerates of brightenings in the line core of Na I D2 coincided well with small-scale magnetic fields as seen by HMI. Mixed magnetic polarities were detected close to the ends of barbs. The computation of photospheric horizontal flows based on HMI magnetograms revealed flow kernels with a size of 5-8 Mm and velocities of 0.30-0.45 km/s at the ends of the filament. The physical properties of extremely large filaments are similar to their smaller counterparts, except for the optical thickness which in our sample was found to be larger. We found that a part of the filament, which erupted the day before, is in the process of reestablishing its initial configuration.
Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 12 pages, 12 figures
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