Homologous large-scale activity in solar eruptive events of November 24-26, 2000
Abstract
We study large-scale activity on the solar disk associated with a November 24-26, 2000 series of six recurrent major flares and ``halo'' coronal mass ejections (CMEs). The analysis is based mainly on the SOHO/EIT data, particularly by using properly rotated difference full-disk images with 12-min intervals at 195Å~ as well as with 6-hour intervals at 171, 195, 284, and 304Å. We demonstrate that these eruptive events were homologous not only by their flare and CME characteristics, as Nitta and Hudson [2001] showed, but also in terms of their large-scale CME-associated manifestations in the EUV corona. These include long and narrow channeled dimmings, some transequatorial; anisotropic coronal waves, propagating in a restricted angular sector; and additional quasi-stationary emitting fronts. As a whole, in all of these six events, the homologous CME-associated disturbances covered a considerable portion of the solar disk. The homology tendency appears to be due to significant disturbance, partial eruption and relatively fast restoration of the same large-scale structures involved in the repeating CME events. We briefly discuss the implications of the analysis in connection with the coronal equilibrium as indicated by recent TRACE observations of oscillating loop systems.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003AGUFMSH22A0180C
- Keywords:
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- 7509 Corona;
- 7511 Coronal holes;
- 7513 Coronal mass ejections;
- 7519 Flares;
- 7531 Prominence eruptions