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A CME-Producing Solar Eruption from the Interior of a Twisted, Emerging BipoleIn a negative-polarity coronal hole, magnetic flux emergence, seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's (SDO) Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI), begins at approximately 19:00 UT on March 3, 2016. The emerged magnetic field produced sunspots with penumbrae by 3:00 UT on March 4, which are a part of NOAA 12514. The emerging magnetic field is largely bipolar with the opposite-polarity fluxes spreading apart overall, but there is simultaneously some convergence and cancellation of opposite-polarity flux at the polarity inversion line (PIL) inside the emerging bipole. The emerging bipole shows obvious overall left-handed shear and/or twist in its magnetic field and corresponding clockwise rotation of the two poles of the bipole about each other as the bipole emerges. The eruption comes from inside the emerging bipole and blows it open to produce a CME observed by SOHO/LASCO. That eruption is preceded by flux cancellation at the emerging bipole's interior PIL, cancellation that plausibly builds a sheared and twisted flux rope above the interior PIL and fnally triggers the blow-out eruption of the flux rope via photospheric-convection-driven, slow tether-cutting reconnection of the legs of the sheared core field, low above the interior PIL, as proposed by van Ballegooijen and Martens (1989, ApJ, 343, 971) and Moore and Roumeliotis (1992, in Eruptive Solar Flares, ed. Z. Svestka, B.V. Jackson, and M.E. Machado [Berlin:Springer], 69). The production of this eruption is a (perhaps rare) counterexample to solar eruptions that result from external collisional shearing between opposite polarities from two distinct emerging and/or emerged bipoles (Chintzoglou et al., 2019, ApJ, 871:67).
Document ID
20190034001
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Poster
Authors
Adams, Mitzi L.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Moore, Ronald L.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Sanjiv K Tiwari
(Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory Palo Alto, CA, United States)
Navdeep K Panesar
(Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory Palo Alto, CA, United States)
Falconer, David A.
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
December 16, 2019
Publication Date
December 9, 2019
Subject Category
Solar Physics
Report/Patent Number
MSFC-E-DAA-TN77999
MSFC-E-DAA-TN76074
Meeting Information
Meeting: AAS Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science
Location: Huntsville, AL
Country: United States
Start Date: March 18, 2020
End Date: March 20, 2020
Sponsors: Alabama Academy of Science, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM11AA01A
Distribution Limits
Public
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