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Super Penumbral Chromospheric Flare

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-10-17 v1

Abstract

We observed a C-class flare at the outer boundary of the super-penumbra of a sunspot. The flare was triggered by an emerging magnetic bipolar region that was obliquely oriented with respect to the super-penumbral fibrils. The flare started due to the low height magnetic reconnection of emerging magnetic flux with super-penumbral field resulting hot multi-temperature plasma flows in the inverse Evershed flow channel and its overlying atmosphere. The inverse Evershed flows in the chromosphere start from super penumbra towards sunspot that end at the outer boundary of the penumbra. The hot plasma flow towards the sunspot in the inverse Evershed channels show about 10 km s1^{-1} higher velocity in Hα\alpha wavelengths compared to the plasma emissions at various temperatures as seen in different AIA filters. Even though these velocities are about seven times higher than the typical inverse-Evershed flow speeds, the flow is diminished at the outer boundary of the sunspot's penumbra. This suggests that the super-penumbral field lines that carry the inverse Evershed flows, are discontinued at the boundary where the penumbral field lines dive into the sun and these two sets of field lines are completely distinct. The discontinuity in the typical magnetic field and plasma properties at the adjoining of these two sets of field lines further leads the discontinuity in the characteristic magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en speeds, therefore, stopping the plasma flows further on. The multi-temperature plasma in the inverse Evershed channels exhibits \textbf{possible} longitudinal oscillations initially during the onset of the flare, and later flows towards the sunspot. In the multi-temperature view, the different layers above the flare region have the mixture of supersonic as well as subsonic flows.

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@article{arxiv.1806.00232,
  title  = {Super Penumbral Chromospheric Flare},
  author = {S. Liu and H. Q. Zhang and D. P. Choudhary and A. K. Srivastava and B. N. Dwivedi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00232},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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