Homologous compact major blowout-eruption solar flares and their production of broad CMEs
arXiv:2203.03954 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac5cc1
Abstract
We analyze the formation mechanism of three homologous broad coronal mass ejections (CMEs) resulting from a series of solar blowout-eruption flares with successively increasing intensities (M2.0, M2.6, and X1.0). The flares originated from active region NOAA 12017 during 2014 March 28-29 within an interval of approximately 24 hr. Coronal magnetic field modeling based on nonlinear-force-free-field extrapolation helps to identify low-lying closed bipolar loops within the flaring region enclosing magnetic flux ropes. We obtain a double flux rope system under closed bipolar fields for the all the events. The sequential eruption of the flux ropes led to homologous flares, each followed by a CME. Each of the three CMEs formed from the eruptions gradually attain a large angular width, after expanding from the compact eruption-source site. We find these eruptions and CMEs to be consistent with the 'magnetic-arch-blowout' scenario: each compact-flare blowout eruption was seated in one foot of a far-reaching magnetic arch, exploded up the encasing leg of the arch, and blew out the arch to make a broad CME.
Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
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