Authors: Heesu Yang Jongchul Chae EunKyung Lim Hyungmin Park Kyuhyoun Cho Ram Ajor Maurya Donguk Song YeonHan Kim Philip R Goode
Publish Date: 2013/07/26
Volume: 288, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-53
Abstract
We investigated the velocity and temperature characteristics of an Ellerman bomb EB and its associated features based on observations made with the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph FISS and a broadband TiO filter of the 16 meter New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory In the TiO images of the photospheric level we found a granular cell expanding in two opposite directions near the site of the EB When one end of this granule reached the EB site the transverse speed of the tip of the expanding granule rapidly decreased and the EB brightened The wings of the Hα profile of the EB indicated that the EB was blueshifted up to 7 km s−1 About 260 s after the EB brightening a surge was seen in absorption and varied from a blueshift of 20 km s−1 to a redshift of 40 km s−1 seen in the Hα and Ca ii 8542 Å lines From the Doppler absorption width of the two lines determined by applying the cloud model we estimated the mean temperature of the surge material to be about 29000 K and the mean speed of nonthermal motion to be about 11 km s−1 We discuss the physical implications of our results in terms of magnetic reconnection and processes related to itWe greatly appreciate the referee’s constructive comments We are grateful to the BBSO team for their technical support for the observations This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea 20110028102 EK Lim is supported by the “Study of nearEarth effects by CME/HSS” project and basic research funding from KASI YeonHan Kim and EunKyung Lim were supported by the Construction of Korean Space Weather Center the project of KASI and the KASI basic research fund
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