Observations of Solar Filaments with Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph of the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory

  • Song, Dong-Uk (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Hyung-Min (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chae, Jong-Chul (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yang, Hee-Su (Astronomy Program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Park, Young-Deuk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Nah, Ja-Kyoung (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Cho, Kyung-Suk (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Jang, Bi-Ho (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Ahn, Kwang-Su (Big Bear Solar Observatory) ;
  • Cao, Wenda (Big Bear Solar Observatory) ;
  • Goode, Philip R. (Big Bear Solar Observatory)
  • Published : 2011.10.05

Abstract

Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS) is an instrument developed by Seoul National University and Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and installed at the 1.6 meter New Solar Telescope of Big Bear Solar Observatory. Using this instrument, we observed solar filaments and analyzed the data focusing on determining the temperature and non-thermal velocity. We inferred the Doppler absorption widths of $H{\alpha}$ and Ca II 8542$\bar{A}$ lines from the line profiles using the cloud model. From these values, we separately determined temperature and non-thermal velocity. Our first result came from a solar filament observed on 2010 July 29th. Temperature inside a small selected region of this ranges from 4500K to 12000K and non-thermal velocity, from 3.5km/s to 7km/s. We also found temperature varied a lot with time. For example temperature at a fixed point varied from 8000K to 18000K for 40 minutes, displaying an oscillating pattern with a period of about 8 minutes and amplitude of about 2000K. We will also present new results from filaments observed in 2011 summer.

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