Sunday, June 15, 2025
Did this filament eruption cause the CME?
Coronal mass ejection, which erupted from the Sun on 15 June 2025 near the Northern pole (marked by the white arrows in LASCO C2 and C3 coronargaph images, the middle and right panels) does not seem to have a clear source region. M8.5-class flare associated with active region 14114 (bright area East/left of central meridian in the left panel) occurred much later. It was, however, a small filament (marked by a white arrow in the left panel), which slowly rose and eventually erupted. Was this filament a possible source of this CME? Watch the videos and judge for yourself. Also, note the time - filament disappeared at 3:45 UT. At about 3:10 UT, two small bright ribbons started developing near filament's south end. Similar flare ribbons albeit much larger is size are typical for so called two-ribbon flares indicating an energy release at the reconnecton site above the magnetic field neutral line. Filaments overlay the neutral lines of large-scale magnetic field. The first indication of the CME in LASCO C2 coronagraph can be noticed at 4:12 UT. LASCO imagery provided courtesy of NASA and ESA.
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