  This paper presents a multiwavelength study of the M8.0 flare and its
associated fast halo CME that originated from a bipolar active region NOAA
10759 on 2005 May 13. The source active region has a conspicuous sigmoid
structure at TRACE 171 A channel as well as in the SXI soft X-ray images, and
we mainly concern ourselves with the detailed process of the sigmoid eruption
as evidenced by the multiwavelength data ranging from Halpha, WL, EUV/UV,
radio, and hard X-rays (HXRs). The most important finding is that the flare
brightening starts in the core of the active region earlier than that of the
rising motion of the flux rope. This timing clearly addresses one of the main
issues in the magnetic eruption onset of sigmoid, namely, whether the eruption
is initiated by an internal tether-cutting to allow the flux rope to rise
upward or a flux rope rises due to a loss of equilibrium to later induce tether
cutting below it. Our high time cadence SXI and Halpha data shows that the
first scenario is relevant to this eruption. As other major findings, we have
the RHESSI HXR images showing a change of the HXR source from a confined
footpoint structure to an elongated ribbon-like structure after the flare
maximum, which we relate to the sigmoid-to-arcade evolution. Radio dynamic
spectrum shows a type II precursor that occurred at the time of expansion of
the sigmoid and a drifting pulsating structure in the flare rising phase in
HXR. Finally type II and III bursts are seen at the time of maximum HXR
emission, simultaneous with the maximum reconnection rate derived from the
flare ribbon motion in UV. We interpret these various observed properties with
the runaway tether-cutting model proposed by Moore et al. in 2001.
