On the Seismicity of September 7, 2011 X1.8-class Flare

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the acoustic activity associated with the September 7, 2011 X-class solar flare, identifying acoustic sources and examining wave propagation in magnetic regions.

Contribution

It presents the first combined use of acoustic holography and time-distance analysis to study flare-related acoustic sources and wave anisotropy.

Findings

Two acoustic sources detected via holography.

Good agreement between holography and time-distance directional data.

Wave amplitude maxima align with strong magnetic fields and sunspots.

Abstract

We present results of our preliminary analysis of acoustically active X-class flare of September 7, 2011. We report two acoustic sources detected via acoustic holography and verified by finding a ridge in time-distance diagrams. We compare the directional information extracted from time-distance and acoustic holography, showing a good agreement in this case. We report that the direction where amplitude of the wave-front is the largest lies through the strong magnetic field and sunspot, suggesting that absorption of the acoustic wave power by magnetic field can be ruled out as a wave anisotropy mechanism in this case.