Observations of a white-light flare associated with a filament eruption
arXiv:1801.04408 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa7f1
Abstract
We present observations of an M5.7 white-light flare (WLF) associated with a small filament eruption in NOAA active region 11476 on 2012 May 10. During this flare, a circular flare ribbon appeared in the east and a remote brightening occurred in the northwest of the active region. Multi-wavelength data are employed to analyze the WLF, including white light (WL), ultraviolet, extreme ultraviolet, hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave. A close spatial and temporal relationship between the WL, HXR and microwave emissions is found in this WLF. However, the peak time of the WL emission lagged that of the HXR and microwave emissions by about 1-2 minutes. Such a result tends to support the back-warming mechanism for the WL emission. Interestingly, the enhanced WL emission occurred at the two footpoints of the filament. Through forced and potential field extrapolations, we find that the three-dimensional magnetic field in the flare region has a fan-spine feature and that a flux rope lies under the dome-like field structure. We describe the entire process of flare evolution into several steps, each producing the sequent brightening below the filament, the circular flare ribbons and the WL enhancement respectively. We suggest that reconnection between the magnetic field of the filament and the overlying magnetic field or reconnection within the flux rope leads to the WL enhancement.
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