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C类耀斑足点的偏振光谱测量

Spectropolarimetry of C-class flare footpoints

Lucia Kleint

摘要:

利用IBIS全斯托克斯成像偏振光谱仪在光球层(6302.5 A线)和色球层(8542 A线)进行了准同步测量,研究了C类耀斑的衰变相。我们分析了来自两个视场的数据,每个视场跨度约为40 "\times 80",并瞄准耀斑的两个足点。从V/I图像中确定了一个感兴趣的区域:较小的太阳黑子半影中的一个相反极性的补丁。我们在光球层水平上发现了这个补丁中不寻常的流动:多普勒频移为-4 km/s,但也可能是4 km/s的径向流入太阳黑子。这样的斑块似乎在耀斑期间很常见,但只有高分辨率的观测才能让我们看到流入,这可能与未来在该地区观察到的耀斑有关。色球图像显示变量叠加排放和流动和不寻常的斯托克斯轮廓。我们还研究了不规则半影,其形成可能被相反极性斑块和通量出现所阻碍。40分钟的时间演变描绘了较大的耀斑带变得更暗,并改变其形状。可测量的光球磁场保持不变,我们没有检测到耀斑能量传输从色球层。我们在8542A谱线中没有发现明显的撞击极化迹象.我们不能排除碰撞极化的可能性,因为较弱的信号可能隐藏在显著的塞曼特征中,或者它可能在耀斑早期就存在。

英文摘要:

We investigate the decay phase of a C-class flare in full-Stokes imaging spectropolarimetry with quasi-simultaneous measurements in the photosphere (6302.5 A line) and in the chromosphere (8542 A line) with the IBIS instrument. We analyze data from two fields-of-view, each spanning about 40" \times 80" and targeting the two footpoints of the flare. A region of interest is identified from V/I images: a patch of opposite polarity in the smaller sunspot's penumbra. We find unusual flows in this patch at photospheric levels: a Doppler shift of -4 km/s, but also a possible radial inflow into the sunspot of 4 km/s. Such patches seem to be common during flares, but only high-resolution observations allowed us to see the inflow, which may be related to future flares observed in this region. Chromospheric images show variable overlying emission and flows and unusual Stokes profiles. We also investigate the irregular penumbra, whose formation may be blocked by the opposite polarity patch and flux emergence. The 40 min temporal evolution depicts the larger of the flare ribbons becoming fainter and changing its shape. Measurable photospheric magnetic fields remain constant and we do not detect flare energy transport down from the chromosphere. We find no clear indications of impact polarization in the 8542 A line. We cannot exclude the possibility of impact polarization, because weaker signals may be buried in the prominent Zeeman signatures or it may have been present earlier during the flare.

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