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Energetics and dynamics of an impulsive flare on March 10, 2001

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We present the Hα\alpha observations from ARIES, Nainital of a compact and impulsive solar flare occurred on March 10, 2001 and associated with a CME. We have also analysed HXT, SXT/Yohkoh observations as well as radio observations from Nobeyama Radio Observatory to derive the energetics and dynamics of this impulsive flare. We co-align the Hα\alpha, SXR, HXR, MW and magnetogram images within the instrumental spatial resolution limit. We detect a single HXR source in this flare, which is found spatially associated with one of the Hα\alpha bright kernel. The unusual feature of HXR and Hα\alpha sources, observed for the first time, is the rotation during the impulsive phase in clockwise direction. We propose that the rotation may be due to asymmetric progress of the magnetic reconnection site or may be due to the change of peak point of the electric field. In MW emission we found two sources, one is main source which is at the main flare site and another is remote source located in South-West direction. It appears that the remote source is formed by the impact of accelerated energetic electrons from the main flare site. From the spatial co-relation of multi-wavelength images of th

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0602611,
  title  = {Energetics and dynamics of an impulsive flare on March 10, 2001},
  author = {Ramesh Chandra and Rajmal Jain and Wahab Uddin and Keiji Yoshimura and T. Kosugi and T. Sakao and Anita Joshi and M. R. Despandey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0602611},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Accepted in Solar Physics, 20 pages, 12 Figures