RESPONSE OF THE PHOTOSPHERIC MAGNETIC FIELD TO THE X2.2 FLARE ON 2011 FEBRUARY 15

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作者
Wang, Shuo [1 ]
Liu, Chang [1 ]
Liu, Rui [1 ]
Deng, Na [1 ]
Liu, Yang [2 ]
Wang, Haimin [1 ]
机构
[1] New Jersey Inst Technol, Space Weather Res Lab, Newark, NJ 07102 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, WW Hansen Expt Phys Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
关键词
Sun: activity; Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs); Sun: flares; Sun: surface magnetism; Sun:; X-rays; gamma rays; RAPID CHANGES; SOLAR-FLARES; X3.4; FLARE; EVOLUTION; SHEAR; ENERGY; RECONNECTION;
D O I
10.1088/2041-8205/745/2/L17
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
It is well known that the long-term evolution of the photospheric magnetic field plays an important role in building up free energy to power solar eruptions. Observations, despite being controversial, have also revealed a rapid and permanent variation of the photospheric magnetic field in response to the coronal magnetic field restructuring during the eruption. The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager instrument (HMI) on board the newly launched Solar Dynamics Observatory produces seeing-free full-disk vector magnetograms at consistently high resolution and high cadence, which finally makes possible an unambiguous and comprehensive study of this important back-reaction process. In this study, we present a near disk-center, GOES-class X2.2 flare, which occurred in NOAA AR 11158 on 2011 February 15. Using the magnetic field measurements made by HMI, we obtained the first solid evidence of a rapid (in about 30 minutes) and irreversible enhancement in the horizontal magnetic field at the flaring magnetic polarity inversion line (PIL) by a magnitude of similar to 30%. It is also shown that the photospheric field becomes more sheared and more inclined. This field evolution is unequivocally associated with the flare occurrence in this sigmoidal active region, with the enhancement area located in between the two chromospheric flare ribbons and the initial conjugate hard X-ray footpoints. These results strongly corroborate our previous conjecture that the photospheric magnetic field near the PIL must become more horizontal after eruptions, which could be related to the newly formed low-lying fields resulting from the tether-cutting reconnection.
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