A Circular White-Light Flare with Impulsive and Gradual White-Light Kernels
arXiv:1712.07279 · doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02343-0
Abstract
White-light flares are the flares with emissions visible in the optical continuum. They are thought to be rare and pose the most stringent requirements in energy transport and heating in the lower atmosphere. Here we present a nearly circular white-light flare on 2015 March 10 that was well observed by the Optical and Near-infrared Solar Eruption Tracer and Solar Dynamics Observatory. In this flare, there appear simultaneously both impulsive and gradual white-light kernels. The generally accepted thick-target model would be responsible for the impulsive kernels but not sufficient to interpret the gradual kernels. Some other mechanisms including soft X-ray backwarming or downward-propagating Alfven waves, acting jointly with electron beam bombardment, provide a possible interpretation. However, the origin of this kind of white-light kernels is still an open question that induces more observations and researches in the future to decipher it.
arXiv comment23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, published in Nature Communications
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