Formation of a solar Ha filament from orphan penumbrae
arXiv:1603.05899 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527571
Abstract
The formation of an Ha filament in active region (AR) 10953 is described. Observations from the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) aboard the Hinode satellite starting on 27th April 2007 until 1st May 2007 were analysed. 20 scans of the 6302A Fe I line pair recorded by SOT/SP were inverted using the SPINOR code. The inversions were analysed together with SOT/BFI G-band and Ca II H and SOT/NFI Ha observations. Following the disappearance of an initial Ha filament aligned along the polarity inversion line (PIL) of the AR, a new Ha filament formed in its place some 20 hours later, which remained stable for at least 1.5 days. The creation of the new Ha filament was driven by the ascent of horizontal magnetic fields from the photosphere into the chromosphere at three separate locations along the PIL. The magnetic fields at two of these locations were situated directly underneath the initial Ha filament and formed orphan penumbrae already aligned along the Ha filament channel. The 700 G orphan penumbrae were stable and trapped in the photosphere until the disappearance of the overlying initial Ha filament, after which they started to ascend into the chromosphere at 10pm5 m/s. Each ascent was associated with a simultaneous magnetic flux reduction of up to 50% in the photosphere. The ascended orphan penumbrae formed dark 'seed' structures in Ha in parallel with the PIL, which elongated and merged to form an Ha filament. The filament channel featured horizontal magnetic fields of on average 260 G at log(tau)=-2 suspended above the nearly field-free lower photosphere. The fields took on an 'inverse' configuration at log(tau)=-2 suggesting a flux rope for the new Ha filament. The orphan penumbral fields ascend into the chromosphere 9-24 hours before the Ha filament is fully formed. The destruction of the initial Ha filament was likely caused by the flux emergence at the third location along the PIL.
arXiv comment14 pages, 10 Figures, accepted in A&A
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