Transequatorial Filament Eruption and Its Link to a Coronal Mass Ejection

作     者：Jing-Xiu Wang Gui-Ping Zhou Ya-Yuan Wen Yu-Zong Zhang Hua-Ning Wang Yuan-Yong Deng Jun Zhang Louise K. Harra Jing-Xiu Wang, Gui-Ping Zhou, Ya-Yuan Wen, Yu-Zong Zhang, Hua-Ning Wang, Yuan-Yong Deng, Jun Zhang and Louise K. Harra National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012;Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, UK

作者机构：National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100012 Mullard Space Science Laboratory University College London Holmbury St Mary Dorking Surrey RH5 6NT UK 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (中国天文和天体物理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2006年第6卷第2期

页      面：247-259页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 

主　　题：Sun: corona   Sun: coronal mass ejections (CMEs)   Sun: activitySun: magnetic fields 

摘      要：We revisit the Bastille Day flare/CME Event of 2000 July 14, and demonstrate that this flare/CME event is not related to only one single active region （AR）. Activation and eruption of a huge transequatorial filament are seen to precede the simultaneous filament eruption and flare in the source active region, NOAA AR 9077, and the full halo-CME in the high corona. Evidence of reconfiguration of large-scale magnetic structures related to the event is illustrated by SOHO EIT and Yohkoh SXT observations, as well as, the reconstructed 3D magnetic lines of force based on the force-free assumption. We suggest that the AR filament in AR 9077 was connected to the transequatorial filament. The large-scale magnetic composition related to the transequatorial filament and its sheared magnetic arcade appears to be an essential part of the CME parent magnetic structure. Estimations show that the filament- arcade system has enough magnetic helicity to account for the helicity carried by the related CMEs. In addition, rather global magnetic connectivity, covering almost all the visible range in longitude and a huge span in latitude on the Sun, is implied by the Nan^ay Radioheliograph （NRH） observations. The analysis of the Bastille Day event suggests that although the triggering of a global CME might take place in an AR, a much larger scale magnetic composition seems to be the source of the ejected magnetic flux, helicity and plasma. The Bastille Day event is the first described ex- ample in the literature, in which a transequatorial filament activity appears to play a key role in a global CME. Many tens of halo-CME are found to be associated with transequatorial filaments and their magnetic environment.