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III型太阳射电爆发的LOFAR捆绑阵成像

LOFAR tied-array imaging of Type III solar radio bursts

D. E. Morosan, P. T. Gallagher, P. Zucca, R. Fallows, E. P. Carley, G. Mann, M. M. Bisi, A. Kerdraon, A. A. Konovalenko, A. L. MacKinnon, H. O. Rucker, B. Thidé… 展开作者

D. E. Morosan, P. T. Gallagher, P. Zucca, R. Fallows, E. P. Carley, G. Mann, M. M. Bisi, A. Kerdraon, A. A. Konovalenko, A. L. MacKinnon, H. O. Rucker, B. Thidé, J. Magdalenić, C. Vocks, H. Reid, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, P. Best, A. Bonafede, J. Bregman, F. Breitling, J. Broderick, M. Brüggen, H. R. Butcher, B. Ciardi, J. E. Conway, F. de Gasperin, E. de Geus, A. Deller, S. Duscha, J. Eislöffel, D. Engels, H. Falcke, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, J. Grießmeier, A. W. Gunst, T. E. Hassall, J. W. T. Hessels, M. Hoeft, J. Hörandel, A. Horneffer, M. Iacobelli, E. Juette, A. Karastergiou, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, M. Kuniyoshi, G. Kuper, P. Maat, S. Markoff, J. P. McKean, D. D. Mulcahy, H. Munk, A. Nelles, M. J. Norden, E. Orru, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, V. N. Pandey, G. Pietka, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, W. Reich, H. Röttgering, A. M. M. Scaife, D. Schwarz, M. Serylak, O. Smirnov, B. W. Stappers, A. Stewart, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, S. Thoudam, C. Toribio, R. Vermeulen, R. J. van Weeren, O. Wucknitz, S. Yatawatta, P. Zarka

摘要:

太阳是一个活跃的无线电发射源,经常与太阳耀斑和日冕物质抛射(CME)等高能现象有关。在低射频(<100 MHz)下,由于以前射电望远镜的仪器限制,太阳还没有被广泛成像。在这里,低频阵列的高空间、光谱和时间分辨率被用来研究30-90兆赫的太阳III型射电爆发及其与日冕物质抛射的关系。在距太阳中心5个太阳半径范围内,用126个同时捆绑阵列光束对太阳成像。这种方法提供的好处超过标准的干涉成像,因为每个光束产生高的时间(83毫秒)和光谱分辨率(12.5千赫)的动态光谱在一个阵列的空间位置集中在太阳上。LOFAR的标准干涉仪输出目前限于每秒一幅图像。在30分钟的时间里,观测到了多个III型射电爆发,其中一些位于高海拔地区(在30 MHz时距离太阳中心4个太阳半径),并且具有非径向轨迹。这些爆发发生在超过一维径向电子密度模型预测值的高度。发现非径向高空III型爆发与日冕物质抛射的膨胀侧面有关。CME可能压缩了邻近的流光等离子体,在高海拔产生更大的电子密度,而非径向的爆发轨迹可以解释为径向磁场的偏转,因为CME在低日冕中扩展。

英文摘要:

The Sun is an active source of radio emission which is often associated with energetic phenomena such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). At low radio frequencies (<100 MHz), the Sun has not been imaged extensively because of the instrumental limitations of previous radio telescopes. Here, the combined high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution of the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) was used to study solar Type III radio bursts at 30-90 MHz and their association with CMEs. The Sun was imaged with 126 simultaneous tied-array beams within 5 solar radii of the solar centre. This method offers benefits over standard interferometric imaging since each beam produces high temporal (83 ms) and spectral resolution (12.5 kHz) dynamic spectra at an array of spatial locations centred on the Sun. LOFAR's standard interferometric output is currently limited to one image per second. Over a period of 30 minutes, multiple Type III radio bursts were observed, a number of which were found to be located at high altitudes (4 solar radii from the solar center at 30 MHz) and to have non-radial trajectories. These bursts occurred at altitudes in excess of values predicted by 1D radial electron density models. The non-radial high altitude Type III bursts were found to be associated with the expanding flank of a CME. The CME may have compressed neighbouring streamer plasma producing larger electron densities at high altitudes, while the non-radial burst trajectories can be explained by the deflection of radial magnetic fields as the CME expanded in the low corona.

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