Chromospheric running wave from solar cyclone


High spatial and temporal resolutions of the Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) on board Hinode enabled us to capture fast dynamic phenomena caused by flux emergence. One such phenomenon may be a chromospheric running wave from a rotating magnetic polarity region with a size of > 5,000 km (hereafter, solar cyclone which was compared to a cyclone on the Earth). A possible mechanism for producing the running wave was investigated with a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation of an emerging twisted flux tube. The simulation showed that the solar cyclone produced an arc-shaped chromospheric region with enhanced plasma density in front of the cyclone, which propagated outward from the core of the cyclone where a strong downdraft was generated along magnetic field lines locally standing vertical.

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Kitiashvili, I. N., et al. 2012, ApJ, 751, L21



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