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Two-Step Filament Eruption During 14 – 15 March 2015

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We present here an interesting two-step filament eruption during 14 – 15 March 2015. The filament was located in NOAA AR 12297 and associated with a halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). We use observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and Heliospheric Magnetic Imager (HMI) instruments onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO). We also use \(\mbox{H}\upalpha\) data from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) telescope and the Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory. The filament shows a first step eruption on 14 March 2015 and it stops its rise at a projected altitude \({\approx}\,125~\mbox{Mm}\) on the solar disk. It remains at this height for \({\approx}\,12~\mbox{hrs}\). Finally it erupts on 15 March 2015 and produces a halo CME. We also find jet activity in the active region during both days, which could help the filament de-stabilization and eruption. The decay index is calculated to understand this two-step eruption. The eruption could be due to the presence of successive instability–stability–instability zones as the filament is rising.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the anonymous referee for the valuable comments and suggestions. We acknowledge the use of SDO and GONG, and the Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory data. RC acknowledges the support from SERB-DST project no. SERB/F/7455/ 2017-17. RJ thanks the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for an INSPIRE fellowship. BS wants to thank the team of the ISSI workshop managed by Nicolas Labrosse on “Nature of prominences” in Bern for fruitful discussion on this event.

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    R. Chandra & R. Joshi

  2. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionesphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, Russia

    B. Filippov

  3. Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, UMR8109 (CNRS), 92195, Meudon Principal Cedex, France

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Chandra, R., Filippov, B., Joshi, R. et al. Two-Step Filament Eruption During 14 – 15 March 2015. Sol Phys 292, 81 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-017-1104-5

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