A small-scale filament eruption inducing Moreton Wave, EUV Wave and Coronal Mass Ejection

Abstract

With the launch of SDO, many EUV waves were observed during solar eruptions. However, the joint observations of Moreton and EUV waves are still relatively rare. We present an event that a small-scale filament eruption simultaneously results in a Moreton wave, an EUV wave and a Coronal Mass Ejection in active region NOAA 12740. Firstly, we find that some dark elongate lanes or filamentary structures in the photosphere existed under the small-scale filament and drifted downward, which manifests that the small-scale filament was emerging and lifting from subsurface. Secondly, combining the simultaneous observations in different Extreme UltraViolet (EUV) and H$\alpha$ passbands, we study the kinematic characteristics of the Moreton and EUV waves. The comparable propagating velocities and the similar morphology of Moreton and different passbands EUV wavefronts were obtained. We deduce that Moreton and different passbands EUV waves were the perturbations in different temperature-associated layers induced by the coronal magneto-hydrodynamic shock wave. We also find the refracted, reflected and diffracted phenomena during the propagation of the EUV wave. By using power-law fittings, the kinematic characteristics of unaffected, refracted and diffracted waves were obtained. The extrapolation field derived by the potential field source surface (PFSS) model manifests that the existence of an interface of different magnetic system (magnetic separatrix) result in refraction, reflection and deviation of the EUV wave.

18 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables; Accepted for publication in ApJ

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