Halo CME Mail

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:19

From: Guillermo Stenborg

Subject: At least Partial Halo Event on 2006/01/12, most likely backsided


Status: O

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LASCO observed an (at least) Partial Halo Event on 2006/01/12. 
Signatures of the event (a diffuse brightening) started to be seen 
in C2 at 15:30 UT barely above the SSE limb. A bright and expanding 
loop front follows at 15:54 UT on the S Pole. Some trailing material, 
in particular some relatively narrow loop fronts on SSW starting at
around 17:54 UT. By the end of the day, the event seems to cover
completely the C2 occulting disk (the LE on S well past the outer
edge of the C2 FOV, while very weak signal barely above the occulting
disk on N).

The event is first seen in C3 at 16:42 UT just appearing above the
SSE. The bright loop front is well seen on the S by 17:18 UT. By 
23:18 UT the event spans in the C3 FOV about 215 deg (from PA ~
065 - 280). Afterward, the legs become too faint to determine whether
the C3 occulting disk gets completely covered. The mean plane-of-sky 
speed of the LE of the event at PA 170 was ~ 475 km/sec, showing 
an slight acceleration.

GOES recorded no significant X-ray activity during the day (below 
the A level). Likewise, EIT 195 images do not show any significant 
event the disk by the time prior to the LASCO C2 event. Therefore, 
the event has been determined as at least a Partial Halo Event, most 
likely backsided, based on the lack of X-ray (GOES) and EUV (EIT 195)
activity.

NOTE:
However, EIT shows much later the lift-off of a filament located at 
around S03W16 (at 23:50 UT). C2 shows the development of a bright loop
front on W starting at 00:54 UT on 01/13 with some very faint and 
diffuse extensions to N, and a twisted --like circularly structured--
interior. This event becomes visible in C3 at 02:42 UT, appearing above
the W Limb. Its angular extent at ~ 07:42 UT is about 70 deg (from PA ~ 
240 - 310).


Movies and images of the Partial Halo event (including also the filament
eruption) will shortly be made available at: 

ftp://ares.nrl.navy.mil/pub/lasco/halo/20060112


Best wishes,

	Guillermo Stenborg


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Dr. Guillermo A. Stenborg   
SOHO-LASCO Operations Scientist,                                           
CUA, MC 612.5, Bldg 26, Rm 001,   F: +1-301-286-0264         
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771.              P: +1-301-286-2941

e-mail: stenborg@kreutz.nascom.nasa.gov
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