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80 MHz Radioheliograph Evidence on Moving Type IV Bursts and Coronal Magnetic Fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

S. F. Smerd  and
G. A. Dulk
S. F. Smerd
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, C.S.I.R.O., Sydney, Australia
G. A. Dulk
Affiliation:
Division of Radiophysics, C.S.I.R.O. and Department of Astro-Geophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., U.S.A.

Abstract

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The characteristics of 12 moving type IV bursts observed with the 80 MHz radioheliograph at the Culgoora Observatory between February 1968 and April 1970 are summarized.

Three classes of moving sources can be recognized; they are described as: (1) Expanding arch; (2) Advancing front; (3) Isolated source.

The first class has been identified (Wild, 1969) with the expansion of a magnetic arch or loop; the second class is here identified with an advancing MHD disturbance which may accelerate the radiating electrons in situ when moving at greater than Alfvén speed; the third with solar ejecta in the form of magnetized plasma clouds, or plasmoids. In all cases the radiation mechanism is probably synchrotron radiation from mildly relativistic electrons; energies in the range ∼0.1 to ∼1 MeV could account for the observed strong circular polarizations.

With an expanding magnetic arch, source and magnetic-field movement are inseparable; the field remains a closed loop throughout the event. The MHD front probably moves largely along and the plasmoids between the open magnetic-field lines of unipolar regions or helmet structures. In the latter case it is the internal magnetic field – possibly toroidal – of the moving plasmoid that determines the polarization of the synchrotron radiation. A preliminary comparison of moving type IV sources with Newkirk-Altschuler maps of coronal magnetic fields shows suitably located closed loops for 2 events identified as expanding magnetic arches and unipolar open field lines along the path of a moving source identified as a plasmoid.

Type
Part VI: Optical and Radio Observations of Large Scale Magnetic Fields on the Sun
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 43: Solar Magnetic Fields , 1971 , pp. 616 - 641
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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