Crossing Filaments

Filippov, Boris; Srivastava, A. K.

doi:10.1007/s11207-011-9721-x

Published: 02 March 2011

Crossing Filaments

Boris Filippov¹ &
A. K. Srivastava²

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Solar filaments show the position of large-scale polarity-inversion lines and are used for the reconstruction of large-scale solar magnetic field structure on the basis of Hα synoptic charts for the periods that magnetographic measurements are not available. Sometimes crossing filaments are seen in Hα filtergrams. We analyze daily Hα filtergrams from the archive of Big Bear Solar Observatory for the period of 1999 – 2003 to find crossing and interacting filaments. A number of examples are presented and filament patterns are compared with photospheric magnetic field distributions. We have found that all crossing filaments reveal quadrupolar magnetic configurations of the photospheric field and presume the presence of null points in the corona.

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Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, 142190, Russia
Boris Filippov
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital, 263 129, Uttarakhand, India
A. K. Srivastava

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Filippov, B., Srivastava, A.K. Crossing Filaments. Sol Phys 270, 151–164 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-011-9721-x

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Received: 19 November 2010
Accepted: 31 January 2011
Published: 02 March 2011
Issue Date: May 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-011-9721-x

Keywords

Filaments
Magnetic fields
Prominences
Reconnection