AbstractUsing the Yohkoh Hard X-Ray Telescope (HXT) data, we have examined motions of the hard X-ray (HXR) sources during 72 solar flares occurred from 1991 September to 2001 December. In these flares, we have found 198 intense sources that are presumably the chromospheric footpoints (FPs) of flare loops. The average velocity V and the velocity dispersion σ were determined by a linear regression for these sources. For 80% of them, the ratio of V to 3σ is larger than 1, strongly suggesting that the regular motions of the HXR sources dominate their chaotic motions.For 43 of 72 flares, coalignment of the HXT images with the photospheric magnetograms allows us to consider the HXR sources located on the both sides of the photospheric neutral line (NL) as the FP sources, and to distinguish between three main types of the FP motions. The type I is the motions of the HXR sources preferentially away from and nearly perpendicular to the NL. Less than 5% of the flares show this pattern of motion. In the type II, the sources move mainly along the NL in anti-parallel directions. Such motions have been found in 26% of flares. The type III involves a similar pattern of motions as the type II but all the HXR sources move in the same direction along the NL. Flares of this type constitute 30% of the flares. About 19% of flares can be described as a combination of these basic types. The remaining 20% of flares seem to be more complicated or less regular in the motion scale under consideration. An interpretation of results is suggested.


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    Title :

    Motion of the HXR sources in solar flares: Yohkoh images and statistics


    Contributors:
    Somov, B.V. (author) / Kosugi, T. (author) / Bogachev, S.A. (author) / Sakao, T. (author) / Masuda, S. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 35 , 10 ; 1700-1706


    Publication date :

    2004-12-08


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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