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Sympathetic Quiet and Active Region Filament Eruptions

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We present the observations of three sympathetic filament eruptions occurring on 19 July 2015, namely F1, F2, and F3. The events were observed in UV and EUV by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory and in H\(\alpha \) by the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory (MLSO) of the Global Oscillation Network Group. As filament F1 starts to erupt, a part of it falls close to the locations of filaments F2 and F3. Our observations indicate that this drives the eruption of F2 and F3, which merge in the process, and trigger a coronal mass ejection and a long-duration GOES C2.1 class flare. We discuss the dynamics and kinematics of these three filament eruptions and related phenomena.

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The HMI and AIA images and spike files used in this article are publicly available from the JSOC at jsoc.stanford.edu. The H\(\alpha\) data are freely available through the GONG network at http://gong.nso.edu.

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We are thankful to the referee for the constructive comments and suggestions. We acknowledge the open data policy of SDO and SOHO missions and GONG. This work is supported by the Bulgarian Science Fund and the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India under Indo-Bulgarian bilateral project No. DST/INT/BLS/P-11/2019 and KP-06-India/14 (19 -Dec-2019). PD thanks the CSIR, New Delhi, for providing the research fellowship.

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    Kostadinka Koleva

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    Pooja Devi, Ramesh Chandra & Reetika Joshi

  3. Institute of Astronomy and NAO, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Peter Duchlev & Momchil Dechev

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Koleva, K., Devi, P., Chandra, R. et al. Sympathetic Quiet and Active Region Filament Eruptions. Sol Phys 297, 44 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-022-01981-y

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