Unraveling the Links among Sympathetic Eruptions
arXiv:1811.01148 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaef35
Abstract
Solar eruptions occurring at different places within a relatively short time interval are considered to be sympathetic. However, it is difficult to determine whether there exists a cause and effect between them. Here we study a failed and a successful filament eruption following an X1.8-class flare on 2014 December 20, in which slipping-like magnetic reconnections serve as a key causal link among the eruptions. Reconnection signatures and effects are: at both sides of the filament experiencing the failed eruption, serpentine ribbons extend along chromospheric network to move away from the filament, while a hot loop apparently grows above it; at the filament undergoing the successful eruption, overlying cold loops contract, while coronal dimming appears at both sides even before the filament eruption. These effects are understood by reconnections continually transforming magnetic fluxes overlying one filament to the other, which adjusts how the magnetic field decays with increasing height above the filaments in opposite trends, therefore either strengthening or weakening the magnetic confinement of each filament.
arXiv commentAccepted for publication in ApJ
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