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《天文和天体物理学研究(英文版)》2016,(6)
It has been found that photospheric magnetic fields can change in accordance with restructuring of the three-dimensional magnetic field following solar eruptions.Previous studies mainly use vector magnetic field data taken for events near the disk center.In this paper,we analyze the magnetic field evolution associated with the 2012 October 23 X1.8 flare in NOAA AR 11598 that is close to the solar limb,using both the 45 s cadence line-of-sight and 12 min cadence vector magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board Solar Dynamics Observatory.This flare is classified as a circular-ribbon flare with spine-fan type magnetic topology containing a null point.In the line-of-sight magnetograms,there are two apparent polarity inversion lines(PILs).The PIL closer to the limb is affected more by the projection effect.Between these two PILs there lie positive polarity magnetic fields,which are surrounded by negative polarity fields outside the PILs.We find that after the flare,both the apparent limb-ward and disk-ward negative fluxes decrease,while the positive flux in-between increases.We also find that the horizontal magnetic fields have a significant increase along the disk-ward PIL,but in the surrounding area,they decrease.Synthesizing the observed field changes,we conclude that the magnetic fields collapse toward the surface above the disk-ward PIL as depicted in the coronal implosion scenario,while the peripheral field turns to a more vertical configuration after the flare.We also suggest that this event is an asymmetric circular-ribbon flare:a flux rope is likely present above the disk-ward PIL.Its eruption causes instability of the entire fan-spine structure and the implosion near that PIL. 相似文献
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NOAA active region 6659, during its June 1991 transit across the solar disk, showed highly sheared vector magnetic field structures
and produced numerous powerful flares, including five white-light flares. Photospheric vector magnetograms of this active
region were obtained at the Huairou Solar Observing Station of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory. After the resolution
of the 180° ambiguity of the transverse magnetic field and transformation of off-center vector magnetograms to the heliographic
plane, we have determined the photospheric vertical current density and discussed the relationship with powerful flares. The
following results were obtained: (a) The powerful 3B/X12 flare on June 9, 1991 was triggered by the interaction between the
large-scale electric current system and magnetic flux of opposite polarity. (b) The kernels of the powerful Hβ flare (sites of the white-light flare) were close to the peaks of the vertical electric current density. (c) Some small-scale
structures of the vertical current relative to the magnetic islands of opposite polarity have not been found. This probably
implies that the electric current is not always parallel to the magnetic field in solar active regions. 相似文献
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Yu Liu Hiroki Kurokawa Chang Liu David H. Brooks Jingping Dun Takako T. Ishii Hongqi Zhang 《Solar physics》2007,240(2):253-262
Vector magnetograms taken at Huairou Solar Observing Station (HSOS) and Mees Solar Observatory (MSO) reveal that the super
active region (AR) NOAA 10486 was a complex region containing current helicity flux of opposite signs. The main positive sunspots
were dominated by negative helicity fields, while positive helicity patches persisted both inside and around the main positive
sunspots. Based on a comparison of two days of deduced current helicity density, pronounced changes associated with the occurrence
of an X10 flare that peaked at 20:49 UT on 29 October 2003 were noticed. The average current helicity density (negative) of
the main sunspots decreased significantly by about 50%. Accordingly, the helicity densities of counter-helical patches (positive)
were also found to decay by the same proportion or more. In addition, two hard X-ray (HXR) “footpoints” were observed by the
Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) during the flare in the 50 – 100 keV energy range. The cores
of these two HXR footpoints were adjacent to the positions of two patches with positive current helicity that disappeared
after the flare. This strongly suggested that the X10 flare on 29 October 2003 resulted from reconnection between magnetic
flux tubes having opposite current helicity. Finally, the global decrease of current helicity in AR 10486 by ∼50% can be understood
as the helicity launched away by the halo coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with the X10 flare.
Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Pankaj Kumar Ablishek K. Srivastava B. Filippov R. Erdélyi Wahab Uddin 《Solar physics》2011,272(2):301-317
We present the multiwavelength observations of a flux rope that was trying to erupt from NOAA AR 11045 and the associated
M-class solar flare on 12 February 2010 using space-based and ground-based observations from TRACE, STEREO, SOHO/MDI, Hinode/XRT, and BBSO. While the flux rope was rising from the active region, an M1.1/2F class flare was triggered near one of its
footpoints. We suggest that the flare triggering was due to the reconnection of a rising flux rope with the surrounding low-lying
magnetic loops. The flux rope reached a projected height of ≈0.15R
⊙ with a speed of ≈90 km s−1 while the soft X-ray flux enhanced gradually during its rise. The flux rope was suppressed by an overlying field, and the
filled plasma moved towards the negative polarity field to the west of its activation site. We found the first observational
evidence of the initial suppression of a flux rope due to a remnant filament visible both at chromospheric and coronal temperatures
that evolved a couple of days earlier at the same location in the active region. SOHO/MDI magnetograms show the emergence
of a bipole ≈12 h prior to the flare initiation. The emerged negative polarity moved towards the flux rope activation site,
and flare triggering near the photospheric polarity inversion line (PIL) took place. The motion of the negative polarity region
towards the PIL helped in the build-up of magnetic energy at the flare and flux rope activation site. This study provides
unique observational evidence of a rising flux rope that failed to erupt due to a remnant filament and overlying magnetic
field, as well as associated triggering of an M-class flare. 相似文献
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Sequences of line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms recorded by the Michelson Doppler Imager are used to quantitatively characterize photospheric magnetic structure and evolution in three active regions that rotated across the Sun??s disk during the Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI), in an attempt to relate the photospheric magnetic properties of these active regions to flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Several approaches are used in our analysis, on scales ranging from whole active regions, to magnetic features, to supergranular scales, and, finally, to individual pixels. We calculated several parameterizations of magnetic structure and evolution that have previously been associated with flare and CME activity, including total unsigned magnetic flux, magnetic flux near polarity-inversion lines, amount of canceled flux, the ??proxy Poynting flux,?? and helicity flux. To catalog flare events, we used flare lists derived from both GOES and RHESSI observations. By most such measures, AR 10988 should have been the most flare- and CME-productive active region, and AR 10989 the least. Observations, however, were not consistent with this expectation: ARs 10988 and 10989 produced similar numbers of flares, and AR 10989 also produced a few CMEs. These results highlight present limitations of statistics-based flare and CME forecasting tools that rely upon line-of-sight photospheric magnetic data alone. 相似文献
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Jana Kašparová Marian KarlickÝ Eduard P. Kontar Richard A. Schwartz Brian R. Dennis 《Solar physics》2005,232(1-2):63-86
A multi-wavelength spatial and temporal analysis of solar high-energy electrons is conducted using the August 20, 2002 flare
of an unusually flat (γ1 = 1.8) hard X-ray spectrum. The flare is studied using RHESSI, Hα, radio, TRACE, and MDI observations with advanced methods
and techniques never previously applied in the solar flare context. A new method to account for X-ray Compton backscattering
in the photosphere (photospheric albedo) has been used to deduce the primary X-ray flare spectra. The mean electron flux distribution
has been analysed using both forward fitting and model-independent inversion methods of spectral analysis. We show that the
contribution of the photospheric albedo to the photon spectrum modifies the calculated mean electron flux distribution, mainly
at energies below ∼100 keV. The positions of the Hα emission and hard X-ray sources with respect to the current-free extrapolation
of the MDI photospheric magnetic field and the characteristics of the radio emission provide evidence of the closed geometry
of the magnetic field structure and the flare process in low altitude magnetic loops. In agreement with the predictions of
some solar flare models, the hard X-ray sources are located on the external edges of the Hα emission and show chromospheric
plasma heated by the non-thermal electrons. The fast changes of Hα intensities are located not only inside the hard X-ray
sources, as expected if they are the signatures of the chromospheric response to the electron bombardment, but also away from
them. 相似文献
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We report an instance of localized chromospheric polarity reversal in a rapidly-formed sunspot which appears to be part of new emerging flux. The chromospheric polarity reversal is preceded by extraordinarily fast growth of the transverse magnetic field and an increase in the line-of-sight magnetic flux of the newly formed sunspot in the photosphere. The strength of this reversal is more than 350 G at maximum, in contrast to approximately - 1300 G for the line-of-sight field and 400 G for the transverse field in the photosphere. Continued flare activity takes place around the site of the reversal with progressively increasing flare size and extent. It is suggested that a kinked or knotted flux loop, or a self-closed flux system developed above the fast-forming sunspot. So far, this phenomenon has been revealed in several active regions. 相似文献
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We have studied the energetics of two impulsive solar flares of X-ray class X1.7 by assuming the electrons accelerated in several episodes of energy release to be the main source of plasma heating and reached conclusions about their morphology. The time profiles of the flare plasma temperature, emission measure, and their derivatives, and the intensity of nonthermal X-ray emission are compared; images of the X-ray sources and magnetograms of the flare region at key instants of time have been constructed. Based on a spectral analysis of the hard X-ray emission from RHESSI data and GOES observations of the soft X-ray emission, we have estimated the spatially integrated kinetic power of nonthermal electrons and the change in flare-plasma internal energy by taking into account the heat losses through thermal conduction and radiation and determined the parameters needed for thermal balance. We have established that the electrons accelerated at the beginning of the events with a relatively soft spectrum directly heat up the coronal part of the flare loops, with the increase in emission measure and hard X-ray emission from the chromosphere being negligible. The succeeding episodes of electron acceleration with a harder spectrum have virtually no effect on the temperature rise, but they lead to an increase in emission measure and hard X-ray emission from the footpoints of the flare loops. 相似文献
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Zongjun Ning 《Solar physics》2008,248(1):99-111
Previous observations show that in many solar flares there is a causal correlation between the hard X-ray flux and the derivative
of the soft X-ray flux. This so-called Neupert effect is indicative of a strong link between the primary energy release to
accelerate particles and plasma heating. It suggests a flare model in which the hard X-rays are electron – ion bremsstrahlung
produced by energetic electrons as they lose their energy in the lower corona and chromosphere and the soft X-rays are thermal
bremsstrahlung from the “chromospheric evaporation” plasma heated by those same electrons. Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) observes in a broad energy band and its high spectral resolution and coverage of the low-energy range allow us to
separate the thermal continuum from the nonthermal component, which gives us an opportunity to investigate the Neupert effect.
In this paper, we use the parameters derived from RHESSI observations to trace the primary energy release and the plasma response:
The hard X-ray flux or spectral hardness is compared with the derivative of plasma thermal energy in three impulsive flares
on 10 November 2002 and on 3 and 25 August 2005. High correlations show that the Neupert effect does hold for the two hard
X-ray peaks of the 10 November 2002 flare, for the first peaks of the 3 August 2005 flare, and for the beginning period of
the 25 August 2005 flare. 相似文献
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Horizontal proper motions were measured with local correlation tracking (LCT) techniques in active region NOAA 11158 on 2011 February 15 at a time when a major (X2.2) solar flare occurred. The measurements are based on continuum images and magnetograms of the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The observed shear flows along the polarity inversion line were rather weak (a few 100 m s–1). The counter‐streaming region shifted toward the north after the flare. A small circular area with flow speeds of up to 1.2 km s–1 appeared after the flare near a region of rapid penumbral decay. The LCT signal in this region was provided by small‐scale photospheric brigthenings, which were associated with fast traveling moving magnetic features. Umbral strengthening and rapid penumbral decay was observed after the flare. Both phenomena were closely tied to kernels of white‐light flare emission. The white‐light flare only lasted for about 15 min and peaked 4 min earlier than the X‐ray flux. In comparison to other major flares, the X2.2 flare in active region NOAA 11158 only produced diminutive photospheric signatures (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Using data from the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), and Hida Observatory (HO), we present a detailed study of an EUV jet and the associated Hα filament eruption in
a major flare in the active region NOAA 10044 on 29 July 2002. In the Hα line wings, a small filament was found to erupt out
from the magnetic neutral line of the active region during the flare. Two bright EUV loops were observed rising and expanding
with the filament eruption, and both hot and cool EUV plasma ejections were observed to form the EUV jet. The two thermal
components spatially separated from each other and lasted for about 25 minutes. In the white-light corona data, a narrow coronal
mass ejection (CME) was found to respond to this EUV jet. We cannot find obvious emerging flux in the photosphere accounting
for the filament eruption and the EUV jet. However, significant sunspot decay and magnetic-flux cancelation owing to collision
of opposite flux before the events were noticed. Based on the hard X-ray data from RHESSI, which showed evidence of magnetic
reconnection along the main magnetic neutral line, we think that all of the observed dynamical phenomena, including the EUV
jet, filament eruption, flare, and CME, should have a close relation to the flux cancelation in the low atmosphere. 相似文献
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对于足点被日面边缘遮挡住的耀斑的观测研究是诊断日冕硬X射线辐射的一个重要方法.通过统计分析RHESSI (Reuven Ramaty High-Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager)卫星观测到的71个此类耀斑硬X射线源发现,前人提出的两类源,即日冕X射线辐射中热辐射与非热辐射源区空间分离较小的源和分离较大的源,在能谱、成像、光变曲线以及GOES持续时间等方面都没有显著的区别,其中辐射区的面积、耀斑总热能以及GOES持续时间与分离距离之间有很好的相关性.这些结果支持近年来提出的一些耀斑统一模型.同时也表明Masuda耀斑只是一类非常特殊的事件,不具有日冕硬X射线辐射的一般特征. 相似文献
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Using TRACE EUV 171 Å line, Hα line, Zürich radio, RHESSI, and HXRS observations the 29 September 2002 flare (M2.6), which occurred in AR NOAA 0134, was analyzed. Flaring structures were compared with a potential magnetic field model (field lines and quasi-separatrix layers) made from SOHO/MDI full-disk magnetogram. Series of high-resolution SOHO/MDI magnetograms and TRACE white-light images were used to find changes in the active region at the photosphere during the flare. The flare began with a rising of a small dark loop followed by the flare brightening observed in 171 Å with TRACE and Hα lines. In radio wavelengths, first type III bursts were observed 5 min prior to the start of hard X-ray emission, indicating a pre-flare coronal activity. The main hard X-ray emission peak (at 06:36 UT) was associated with the second type III burst activity and several slowly negatively drifting features, all starting from one point on the radio spectrum (probably a shock propagating through structures with different plasma parameters). After this time a huge loop formed and three minutes later it became visible in absorption both in Hα and 171 Å EUV lines. The phase of huge dark loop formation was characterized by long-lasting, slowly negatively drifting pulsations and drifting continuum. Finally, considering this huge loop as a surge an evolution of the event under study is discussed. 相似文献
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We present a multi-wavelength analysis of an eruption event that occurred in active region NOAA 11093 on 7 August 2010, using
data obtained from SDO, STEREO, RHESSI, and the GONG Hα network telescope. From these observations, we inferred that an upward
slow rising motion of an inverse S-shaped filament lying along the polarity inversion line resulted in a CME subsequent to
a two-ribbon flare. Interaction of overlying field lines across the filament with the side-lobe field lines, associated EUV
brightening, and flux emergence/cancelation around the filament were the observational signatures of the processes leading
to its destabilization and the onset of eruption. Moreover, the time profile of the rising motion of the filament/flux rope
corresponded well with flare characteristics, viz., the reconnection rate and hard X-ray emission profiles. The flux rope was accelerated to the maximum velocity as a CME
at the peak phase of the flare, followed by deceleration to an average velocity of 590 km s−1. We suggest that the observed emergence/cancelation of magnetic fluxes near the filament caused it to rise, resulting in
the tethers to cut and reconnection to take place beneath the filament; in agreement with the tether-cutting model. The corresponding
increase/decrease in positive/negative photospheric fluxes found in the post-peak phase of the eruption provides unambiguous
evidence of reconnection as a consequence of tether cutting. 相似文献
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Solar flares are known to release a large amount of energy. It is believed that the flares can excite velocity oscillations
in active regions. We report here the changes in velocity signals in three active regions which have produced large X-class
flares. The enhanced velocity signals appeared during the rise time of the GOES soft X-ray flux. These signals are located
close to the vicinity of the hard X-ray source regions as observed with RHESSI. The power maps of the active region show enhancement
in the frequency regime 5–6.5 mHz, while there is feeble or no enhancement of these signals in 2–4 mHz frequency band. High
energy particles with sufficient momentum seem to be the cause for these observed enhanced velocity signals. 相似文献
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M. R. Kundu V. V. Grechnev S. M. White E. J. Schmahl N. S. Meshalkina L. K. Kashapova 《Solar physics》2009,260(1):135-156
We investigate accelerated electron energy spectra for different sources in a large flare using simultaneous observations
obtained with two instruments, the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph (NoRH) at 17 and 34 GHz, and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar
Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) at hard X-rays. This flare is one of the few in which emission up to energies exceeding 200 keV
can be imaged in hard X-rays. Furthermore, we can investigate the spectra of individual sources up to this energy. We discuss
and compare the HXR and microwave spectra and morphology. Although the event overall appears to correspond to the standard
scenario with magnetic reconnection under an eruptive filament, several of its features do not seem to be consistent with
popular flare models. In particular we find that (1) microwave emissions might be optically thick at high frequencies despite
a low peak frequency in the total flux radio spectrum, presumably due to the inhomogeneity of the emitting source; (2) magnetic
fields in high-frequency radio sources might be stronger than sometimes assumed; (3) sources spread over a very large volume
can show matching evolution in their hard X-ray spectra that may provide a challenge to acceleration models. Our results emphasize
the importance of studies of sunspot-associated flares and total flux measurements of radio bursts in the millimeter range. 相似文献
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Evidence that Synchrotron Emission from Nonthermal Electrons Produces the Increasing Submillimeter Spectral Component in Solar Flares 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Adriana V. R. Silva G. H. Share R. J. Murphy J. E. R. Costa C. G. Giménez de Castro J.-P. Raulin P. Kaufmann 《Solar physics》2007,245(2):311-326
We investigate the origin of the increasing spectra observed at submillimeter wavelengths detected in the flare on 2 November
2003 starting at 17:17 UT. This flare, classified as an X8.3 and 2B event, was simultaneously detected by RHESSI and the Solar
Submillimeter Telescope (SST) at 212 and 405 GHz. Comparison of the time profiles at various wavelengths shows that the submillimeter
emission resembles that of the high-energy X rays observed by RHESSI whereas the microwaves observed by the Owens Valley Solar
Array (OVSA) resemble that of ∼50 keV X rays. Moreover, the centroid position of the submillimeter radiation is seen to originate
within the same flaring loops of the ultraviolet and X-ray sources. Nevertheless, the submillimeter spectra are distinct from
the usual microwave spectra, appearing to be a distinct spectral component with peak frequency in the THz range. Three possibilities
to explain this increasing radio spectra are discussed: (1) gyrosynchrotron radiation from accelerated electrons, (2) bremsstrahlung
from thermal electrons, and (3) gyrosynchrotron emission from the positrons produced by pion or radioactive decay after nuclear
interactions. The latter possibility is ruled out on the grounds that to explain the submillimeter observations requires 3000
to 2×105 more positrons than what is inferred from X-ray and γ-ray observations. It is possible to model the emission as thermal; however, such sources would produce too much flux in the
ultraviolet and soft X-ray wavelengths. Nevertheless we are able to explain both spectral components at microwave and submillimeter
wavelengths by gyrosynchrotron emission from the same population of accelerated electrons that emit hard X rays and γ rays. We find that the same 5×1035 electrons inferred from RHESSI observations are responsible for the compact submillimeter source (0.5 arcsec in radius) in
a region of 4500 G low in the atmosphere, and for the traditional microwave spectral component by a more extended source (50
arcsec) in a 480 G magnetic field located higher up in the loops. The extreme values in magnetic field and source size required
to account for the submillimeter emission can be relaxed if anisotropy and transport of the electrons are taken into account. 相似文献
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Magnetic topology has been a key to the understanding of magnetic energy re-lease mechanism. Based on observed vector magnetograms, we have determined the three-dimensional (3D) topology skeleton of the magnetic fields in the active region NOAA 10720.The skeleton consists of six 3D magnetic nulls and a network of corresponding spines, fans,and null-null lines. For the first time, we have identified a spiral magnetic null in Sun's corona.The magnetic lines of force twisted around the spine of the null, forming a 'magnetic wreath'with excess of free magnetic energy and resembling observed brightening structures at extra-ultraviolet (EUV) wavebands. We found clear evidence of topology eruptions which are re-ferred to as catastrophic changes of topology skeleton associated with a coronal mass ejection(CME) and an explosive X-ray flare. These results shed new lights on the structural complex-ity and its role in explosive magnetic activity. The concept of flux rope has been widely used in modelling explosive magnetic activity, although their observational identity is rather ob-scure or, at least, lacking of necessary details up to date. We suggest that the magnetic wreath associated with the 3D spiral null is likely an important class of the physical entity of flux ropes. 相似文献
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Based on photospheric vector magnetograms obtained at Huairou Solar Observing Station, we have studied the evolution of magnetic
nonpotentiality in NOAA AR 9077 from 11 to 15 July 2000. We focus our analysis on the daily change of nonpotential characteristics
in the photospheric magnetic field preceding the `Bastille Day' flare. We have identified the following evolving patterns:
(1) The shear-angle distribution underwent dramatic change in the filament channel. At a key site of the filament environment,
the magnetic shear changed sign from positive to negative. (2) The old current systems disrupted, and new but weaker systems
formed before this major event. Similar changes are identified for the longitudinal current helicity. (3) The source field
weakened before the flare, and the density of free magnetic energy decreased at the photospheric level. These obvious changes
lasted at least nine hours before the `Bastille Day' flare, and they took place where a large amount of magnetic flux disappeared
in magnetic flux cancellation. The site of dramatic changes is also found to coincide with the base of helical magnetic ropes
which were seen in a 3-D force-free reconstruction. We suggest that the observed evolution of the magnetic nonpotentiality
represents a continuous transportation of magnetic energy and complexity from the lower atmosphere to the corona. This transportation
seems to be responsible for the energy build-up for the major flare. Moreover, the slow magnetic reconnection in the lower
atmosphere, observed as magnetic flux cancellation, appears to play a key role in this energy build-up process.
Supplementary material to this paper is available in electronic form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1014258426134 相似文献