Multi-passband Observations of a Solar Flare over the He i 10830 Å line
Open Access
- 1 January 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Vol. 924 (1), L18
- https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac447c
Abstract
This study presents a C3.0 flare observed by the Big Bear Solar Observatory/Goode Solar Telescope (GST) and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) on 2018 May 28 around 17:10 UT. The Near-Infrared Imaging Spectropolarimeter of GST was set to spectral imaging mode to scan five spectral positions at +/- 0.8, +/- 0.4 angstrom and line center of He i 10830 angstrom. At the flare ribbon's leading edge, the line is observed to undergo enhanced absorption, while the rest of the ribbon is observed to be in emission. When in emission, the contrast compared to the preflare ranges from about 30% to nearly 100% at different spectral positions. Two types of spectra, "convex" shape with higher intensity at line core and "concave" shape with higher emission in the line wings, are found at the trailing and peak flaring areas, respectively. On the ribbon front, negative contrasts, or enhanced absorption, of about similar to 10%-20% appear in all five wavelengths. This observation strongly suggests that the negative flares observed in He i 10830 angstrom with mono-filtergram previously were not caused by pure Doppler shifts of this spectral line. Instead, the enhanced absorption appears to be a consequence of flare-energy injection, namely nonthermal collisional ionization of helium caused by the precipitation of high-energy electrons, as found in our recent numerical modeling results. In addition, though not strictly simultaneous, observations of Mg ii from the IRIS spacecraft, show an obvious central reversal pattern at the locations where enhanced absorption of He i 10830 angstrom is seen, which is consistent with previous observations.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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