A statistical study of shear motion of the footpoints in two-ribbon flares

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	A statistical study of shear motion of the footpoints in two-ribbon flares
	Su, Yingna; Golub, Leon; Van Ballegooijen, Adriaan A.
刊名	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
	2007-01-20
卷号	655 期号:1 页码:606-614
关键词	Sun : corona Sun : flares Sun : magnetic fields Sun : UV radiation
ISSN号	0004-637X
英文摘要	We present a statistical investigation of shear motion of the ultraviolet (UV) or extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) footpoints in two-ribbon flares, using the high spatial resolution data obtained in 1998-2005 by TRACE. To do this study, we have selected 50 well-observed X and M class two-ribbon flares as our sample. All 50 of these flares are classified into three types based on the motions of the footpoints with respect to the magnetic field (SOHO MDI). The relation between our classification scheme and the traditional classification scheme (i.e., "ejective'' and "confined'' flares) is discussed. We have found that 86% (43 out of 50) of these flares show both strong-to-weak shear change of footpoints and ribbon separation (type I flares), and 14% of the flares show no measurable shear change of conjugate footpoints, including two flares with very small ribbon separation (type II flares) and five flares having no ribbon separation at all through the entire flare process (type III flares). Shear motion of footpoints is thus a common feature in two-ribbon flares. A detailed analysis of the type I flares shows (1) for a subset of 20 flares, the initial and final shear angles of the footpoints are mainly in the range 50 degrees-80 degrees and 15 degrees-55 degrees, respectively; and (2) in 10 of the 14 flares having both measured shear angle and corresponding hard X-ray observations, the cessation of shear change is 0-2 minutes earlier than the end of the impulsive phase, which may suggest that the change from impulsive to gradual phase is related to magnetic shear change.
学科主题	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
类目[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
研究领域[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
关键词[WOS]	CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS ; EMERGING MAGNETIC-FLUX ; SOLAR-FLARES ; RECONNECTION ; MODEL ; MORPHOLOGIES ; PROMINENCES ; ERUPTIONS ; IMAGES ; ROPE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000243725400049
公开日期	2012-02-05
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.72.40/handle/332002/2408]
专题	紫金山天文台_太阳高能及相关物理过程研究团组
作者单位	Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Su, Yingna,Golub, Leon,Van Ballegooijen, Adriaan A.. A statistical study of shear motion of the footpoints in two-ribbon flares[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2007,655(1):606-614.
APA	Su, Yingna,Golub, Leon,&Van Ballegooijen, Adriaan A..(2007).A statistical study of shear motion of the footpoints in two-ribbon flares.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,655(1),606-614.
MLA	Su, Yingna,et al."A statistical study of shear motion of the footpoints in two-ribbon flares".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 655.1(2007):606-614.