[P-PS04] [EJ] アルマによる惑星科学の新展開

[PPS04-P15] ALMA 3mm帯観測による黒点暗部発光の発見

*岩井 一正¹、Loukitcheva Maria ^2,3,4、下条 圭美⁵、Solanki Sami ^3,6、White Stephen⁷ (1.情報通信研究機構、2.New Jersey Institute of Technology、3.Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research、4.St. Petersburg University、5.国立天文台、6.Kyung Hee University、7.Air Force Research Laboratory)

キーワード：黒点、太陽彩層、電波放射

We report the discovery of solar umbral brightening at a wavelength of 3 mm using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA). Sunspots are the most prominent features on the solar surface, but many of their aspects are surprisingly poorly understood. We analyzed a λ=3 mm (100 GHz) mosaic image obtained by ALMA, which includes a large sunspot within the active region AR12470 on December 16, 2015. The 3 mm map has a field-of-view and spatial resolution, which is the highest spatially-resolved map including an entire sunspot at this frequency range. We find a gradient of 3 mm brightness from a high value in the outer penumbra to a low value in the inner penumbra/outer umbra. Within the inner umbra, there is a marked increase in 3mm brightness temperature, which we call umbral brightening. This enhanced emission corresponds to a temperature excess of 800 K relative to the surrounding inner penumbral region and coincides with excess brightening in the 1330 and 1400 Å slitjaw images of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), adjacent to a partial lightbridge. This λ=3 mm brightening may be an intrinsic feature of the sunspot umbra at chromospheric heights, or it could be related to a coronal plume since the brightening was coincident with the footpoint of a coronal loop observed at 171 Å. The λ=3 mm brightening is near a region of variable brightening observed at 1330 Å in part of the penumbra of the sunspot.