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日冕中激波通过湍流等离子体传播的观测

Observations of shock propagation through turbulent plasma in the solar corona

Eoin P. Carley, Baptiste Cecconi, Hamish A. Reid, Carine Briand, Sasikumar Raja, Sophie Masson, Vladimir V. Dorovskyy, Caterina Tiburzi, Nicole Vilmer, Pietro Z… 展开作者

Eoin P. Carley, Baptiste Cecconi, Hamish A. Reid, Carine Briand, Sasikumar Raja, Sophie Masson, Vladimir V. Dorovskyy, Caterina Tiburzi, Nicole Vilmer, Pietro Zucca, Philippe Zarka, Michel Tagger, Jean-Mathias Griessmeier, Stéphane Corbel, Gilles Theureau, Alan Loh, Julien Girard

摘要:

日冕中的爆发活动往往会导致冲击波的传播。在无线电领域,这种冲击的主要特征是II型无线电爆发,在动态频谱中观察到,随着时间的推移,发射带慢慢地向较低频率漂移。这些射电暴有时可能具有不均匀和破碎的精细结构,但这种精细结构的原因目前尚不清楚。在这里,我们使用Nançay升级LOFAR(NenuFAR)的新扩展在2019年3月20日观察到II型射电爆发,这是一种在10-85 MHz之间观察的射电干涉仪。我们发现,与II型精细结构的密度扰动的大小尺度的分布遵循幂律的频谱指数范围内的$α=-1.7$-2.0,这密切匹配的值$-5/3$预期充分发展的湍流。我们确定这种湍流是上游的冲击,在背景日冕等离子体在日心距离$\sim$ 2 R $_{\odot}$。观测到的湍流密度不均匀性的惯性尺度范围为$\sim$ 62 μ m ~ $\sim$ 209 km。这表明,II型精细结构和碎片可以是由于冲击传播通过一个不均匀和湍流的日冕等离子体,我们讨论了电子加速在日冕冲击的影响。

英文摘要:

Eruptive activity in the solar corona can often lead to the propagation of shock waves. In the radio domain the primary signature of such shocks are type II radio bursts, observed in dynamic spectra as bands of emission slowly drifting towards lower frequencies over time. These radio bursts can sometimes have inhomogeneous and fragmented fine structure, but the cause of this fine structure is currently unclear. Here we observe a type II radio burst on 2019-March-20th using the New Extension in Nançay Upgrading LOFAR (NenuFAR), a radio interferometer observing between 10-85 MHz. We show that the distribution of size-scales of density perturbations associated with the type II fine structure follows a power law with a spectral index in the range of $α=-1.7$ to -2.0, which closely matches the value of $-5/3$ expected of fully developed turbulence. We determine this turbulence to be upstream of the shock, in background coronal plasma at a heliocentric distance of $\sim$2 R$_{\odot}$. The observed inertial size-scales of the turbulent density inhomogeneities range from $\sim$62 Mm to $\sim$209 km. This shows that type II fine structure and fragmentation can be due to shock propagation through an inhomogeneous and turbulent coronal plasma, and we discuss the implications of this on electron acceleration in the coronal shock.

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