ALMA observations of transient heating in a solar active region
arXiv:2006.14564 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202038755
Abstract
We aim to investigate the temperature enhancements and formation heights of impulsive heating phenomena in solar active-regions such as Ellerman bombs (EBs), ultraviolet bursts (UVBs), and flaring active-region fibrils (FAFs) using interferometric observations in the millimeter (mm) continuum provided by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). We examined 3 mm signatures of heating events identified in Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observations of an active region and compared the results with synthetic spectra from a 3D radiative magnetohydrodynamic simulation. We estimated the contribution from the corona to the mm brightness using differential emission measure analysis. We report the null detection of EBs in the 3 mm continuum at " spatial resolution, which is evidence that they are sub-canopy events that do not significantly contribute to heating the upper chromosphere. In contrast, we find the active region to be populated with multiple compact, bright, flickering mm bursts -- reminiscent of UVBs. The high brightness temperatures of up to K in some events have a significant contribution (up to 7%) from the corona. We also detect FAF-like events in the 3 mm continuum that show rapid motions of K plasma launched with high plane-of-sky velocities () from bright kernels. The mm FAFs are the brightest class of warm canopy fibrils that connect magnetic regions of opposite polarities. The simulation confirms that ALMA should be able to detect the mm counterparts of UVBs and small flares and thus provide a complementary diagnostic for localized heating in the solar chromosphere.
arXiv commentrevised; accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
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