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Observations of a Footpoint Drift of an Erupting Flux Rope

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We analyze the imaging observations of an M-class eruptive flare of 2015 November 4. The pre-eruptive Hα filament was modeled by the nonlinear force-free field model, which showed that it consisted of two helical systems. Tether-cutting reconnection involving these two systems led to the formation of a hot sigmoidal loop structure rooted in a small hook that formed at the end of the flare ribbon. Subsequently, the hot loops started to slip away from the small hook until it disappeared. The loops continued slipping and the ribbon elongated itself by several tens of arcseconds. A new and larger hook then appeared at the end of the elongated ribbon with hot and twisted loops rooted there. After the eruption of these hot loops, the ribbon hook expanded and later contracted. We interpret these observations in the framework of the recent three-dimensional (3D) extensions to the standard solar flare model predicting the drift of the flux rope footpoints. The hot sigmoidal loop is interpreted as the flux rope, whose footpoints drift during the eruption. While the deformation and drift of the new hook can be described by the model, the displacement of the flux rope footpoint from the filament to that of the erupting flux rope indicate that the hook evolution can be more complex than those captured by the model.

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hal-03131453 , version 1 (15-03-2024)

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Alena Zemanová, Jaroslav Dudík, Guillaume Aulanier, Julia Thalmann, Peter Gömöry. Observations of a Footpoint Drift of an Erupting Flux Rope. The Astrophysical Journal, 2019, 883 (1), pp.96. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ab3926⟩. ⟨hal-03131453⟩
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