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arXiv 0910.0216astro-ph.SR
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作为多耀斑环系统中MHD振荡结果的准周期太阳X射线发射的观测

Observations of quasi-periodic solar X-ray emission as a result of MHD oscillations in a system of multiple flare loops

I. V. Zimovets, A. B. Struminsky

摘要:

我们调查了2002年10月20日的太阳耀斑。耀斑伴随着RHESSI在3-50 keV能量范围内观测到的热和非热硬X射线发射(HXR)的准周期脉动(QPP)。使用Lomb周期图对不同能量通道中的HXR时间曲线进行分析,结果显示约16秒和36秒的两个统计学显著时间段。36秒的QPP只在耀斑脉冲相的非热HXR辐射中观测到。16秒的QPP在热HXR发射中更为明显,并且在耀斑的脉冲和衰减阶段都观察到。对耀斑区的成像分析、QPP的确定时间和耀斑区磁环的估计物理参数使我们能够对观测结果作如下解释。1)在脉冲阶段,能量被释放,电子被加速的连续行为,平均时间约为36秒,在不同的部分,两个空间上分离,但相互作用的环系统的耀斑区域。2)36秒的能量释放周期可能是由连接这些耀斑站点的环路中的快速MHD振荡的作用引起的。3)在第一次能量释放的爆炸行为中,在一个耀斑环系统中激发了时间为16秒的MHD振荡(很可能是香肠模式)。4)这些振荡在脉冲阶段由随后的能量释放的爆炸行为维持,并在耀斑的衰减阶段被完全阻尼。

英文摘要:

We investigate the solar flare of 20 October 2002. The flare was accompanied by quasi-periodic pulsations (QPP) of both thermal and nonthermal hard X-ray emissions (HXR) observed by RHESSI in the 3-50 keV energy range. Analysis of the HXR time profiles in different energy channels made with the Lomb periodogram indicates two statistically significant time periods of about 16 and 36 seconds. The 36-second QPP were observed only in the nonthermal HXR emission in the impulsive phase of the flare. The 16-second QPP were more pronounced in the thermal HXR emission and were observed both in the impulsive and in the decay phases of the flare. Imaging analysis of the flare region, the determined time periods of the QPP and the estimated physical parameters of magnetic loops in the flare region allow us to interpret the observations as follows. 1) In the impulsive phase energy was released and electrons were accelerated by successive acts with the average time period of about 36 seconds in different parts of two spatially separated, but interacting loop systems of the flare region. 2) The 36-second periodicity of energy release could be caused by the action of fast MHD oscillations in the loops connecting these flaring sites. 3) During the first explosive acts of energy release the MHD oscillations (most probably the sausage mode) with time period of 16 seconds were excited in one system of the flare loops. 4) These oscillations were maintained by the subsequent explosive acts of energy release in the impulsive phase and were completely damped in the decay phase of the flare.

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