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| Paper: |
Initiation of Solar Eruptions |
| Volume: |
383, Subsurface and Atmospheric Influences on Solar Activity |
| Page: |
163 |
| Authors: |
Sterling, A.C.; Moore, R.L. |
| Abstract: |
We consider processes occurring just prior to and at the start of the onset of flare- and CME-producing solar eruptions. Our recent work uses observations of filament motions around the time of eruption onset as a proxy for the evolution of the fields involved in the eruption. Frequently the filaments show a slow rise prior to fast eruption, indicative of a slow expansion of the field that is about to explode. Work by us and others suggests that reconnection involving emerging or canceling flux results in a lengthening of fields restraining the filament-carrying field, and the consequent upward expansion of the field in and around the filament produces the filament’s slow rise; that is, the reconnection weakens the magnetic “tethers” (“tether-weakening” reconnection), and results in the slow rise of the filament. It is still inconclusive, however, what mechanism is responsible for the switch from the slow rise to the fast eruption. |
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