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XRT & AIA Views of Cascading Loop-Brightenings on 2011/11/01
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One day after exhibiting particularly long-lived jets, NOAA active region 11330 continued to provide interesting images. On 2011/11/01, a minor flare was observed following loop-brightenings that cascaded down through the adjacent loops. The attached movie shows XRT's view of the event alongside the 94 Angstrom images from SDO/AIA, which have been averaged over one minute, or five images, to match XRT's cadence and increase signal-to-noise. The sudden brightening (flare) that occurs around 17:21 UT is possibly the result of an interaction between the two brightest loops known as magnetic reconnection. Keywords: Flare, AIA Filters: Be_thin, AIA/94 |
(Prepared by Patrick McCauley)
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