A review of solar type III radio bursts

Reid, Hamish; Ratcliffe, Heather

doi:10.1088/1674-4527/14/7/003

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“…The simultaneous observation of hard X-rays (HXR) and metric/decimetric radio emission is commonplace during SFs and the relationship between type III bursts and HXR emissions has been studied for many years (Reid & Ratcliffe 2014). Bursts of type III radio emissions have been found to temporally correlate with bursts in HXRs (Pick & Vilmer 2008).…”

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Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particle event characteristics

Papaioannou

Sandberg

Anastasiadis

et al. 2016

J. Space Weather Space Clim.

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A new catalogue of 314 solar energetic particle (SEP) events extending over a large time span from 1984 to 2013 has been compiled. The properties as well as the associations of these SEP events with their parent solar sources have been thoroughly examined. The properties of the events include the proton peak integral flux and the fluence for energies above 10, 30, 60 and 100 MeV. The associated solar events were parametrized by solar flare (SF) and coronal mass ejection (CME) characteristics, as well as related radio emissions. In particular, for SFs: the soft X-ray (SXR) peak flux, the SXR fluence, the heliographic location, the rise time and the duration were exploited; for CMEs the plane-of-sky velocity as well as the angular width were utilized. For radio emissions, type III, II and IV radio bursts were identified. Furthermore, we utilized element abundances of Fe and O. We found evidence that most of the SEP events in our catalogue do not conform to a simple two-class paradigm, with the 73% of them exhibiting both type III and type II radio bursts, and that a continuum of event properties is present. Although, the so-called hybrid or mixed events are found to be present in our catalogue, it was not possible to attribute each SEP event to a mixed/hybrid sub-category. Moreover, it appears that the start of the type III burst most often precedes the maximum of the SF and thus falls within the impulsive phase of the associated SF. At the same time, type III bursts take place within %5.22 min, on average, in advance from the time of maximum of the derivative of the SXR flux (Neupert effect). We further performed a statistical analysis and a mapping of the logarithm of the proton peak flux at E > 10 MeV, on different pairs of the parent solar source characteristics. This revealed correlations in 3-D space and demonstrated that the gradual SEP events that stem from the central part of the visible solar disk constitute a significant radiation risk. The velocity of the associated CMEs, as well as the SXR peak flux and fluence, are all fairly significantly correlated to both the proton peak flux and the fluence of the SEP events in our catalogue. The strongest correlation to SEP characteristics is manifested by the CME velocity.

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Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particle event characteristics

Papaioannou

Sandberg

Anastasiadis

et al. 2016

J. Space Weather Space Clim.

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129

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“…The coherent mechanism that can cause radio emission from the accelerated particles results in lower frequencies of radio emission from source regions of lower-density plasma, and higher frequencies from higher-density plasma (see e.g., McLean and Labrum, 1985;Pick and Vilmer, 2008;Reid and Ratcliffe, 2014, as reviews). Observing the Sun at a number of different frequencies enables the probing of radio emission from different plasma densities.…”

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On-Disc Observations of Flux Rope Formation Prior to Its Eruption

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Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are one of the primary manifestations of solar activity and can drive severe space weather effects. Therefore, it is vital to work towards being able to predict their occurrence. However, many aspects of CME formation and eruption remain unclear, including whether magnetic flux ropes are present before the onset of eruption and the key mechanisms that cause CMEs to occur. In this work, the pre-eruptive coronal configuration of an active region that produced an interplanetary CME with a clear magnetic flux rope structure at 1 AU is studied. A forward-S sigmoid appears in extremeultraviolet (EUV) data two hours before the onset of the eruption (SOL2012-06-14), which is interpreted as a signature of a right-handed flux rope that formed prior to the eruption. Flare ribbons and EUV dimmings are used to infer the locations of the flux rope footpoints. These locations, together with observations of the global magnetic flux distribution, indicate that an interaction between newly emerged magnetic flux and pre-existing sunspot field in the days prior to the eruption may have enabled the coronal flux rope to form via tethercutting-like reconnection. Composition analysis suggests that the flux rope had a coronal plasma composition, supporting our interpretation that the flux rope formed via magnetic reconnection in the corona. Once formed, the flux rope remained stable for two hours before erupting as a CME. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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“…Astrophysical examples include Type II and III solar radio bursts (Lin et al 1981(Lin et al , 1986Dulk et al 1984;Goldman 1983;Robinson et al 1993aRobinson et al ,b, 1994Reid & Ratcliffe 2014), outer heliospheric radio emission (Kurth et al 1984), and in planetary electron foreshocks (Etcheto & Faucheux 1984;Moses et al 1984;Fuselier et al 1985;Lacombe et al 1985). Related processes in laboratory plasmas have also been discussed by, e.g.…”

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Self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations of fundamental and harmonic plasma radio emission mechanisms

Thurgood

Tsiklauri

2015

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Aims. The simulation of three-wave interaction based plasma emission, thought to be the underlying mechanism for Type III solar radio bursts, is a challenging task requiring fully-kinetic, multi-dimensional models. This paper aims to resolve a contradiction in past attempts, whereby some studies indicate that no such processes occur. Methods. We self-consistently simulate three-wave based plasma emission through all stages by using 2D, fully kinetic, electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations of relaxing electron beams using the EPOCH2D code.Results. Here we present the results of two simulations;, which we find to permit and prohibit plasma emission respectively. We show that the possibility of plasma emission is contingent upon the frequency of the initial electrostatic waves generated by the bump-in-tail instability, and that these waves may be prohibited from participating in the necessary three-wave interactions due to frequency conservation requirements. In resolving this apparent contradiction through a comprehensive analysis, in this paper we present the first self-consistent demonstration of fundamental and harmonic plasma emission from a single-beam system via fully kinetic numerical simulation. We caution against simulating astrophysical radio bursts using unrealistically dense beams (a common approach which reduces run time), as the resulting non-Langmuir characteristics of the initial wave modes significantly suppresses emission. Comparison of our results also indicates that, contrary to the suggestions of previous authors, an alternative plasma emission mechanism based on two counter-propagating beams is unnecessary in an astrophysical context. Finally, we also consider the action of the Weibel instability which generates an electromagnetic beam mode. As this provides a stronger contribution to electromagnetic energy than the emission, we stress that evidence of plasma emission in simulations must disentangle the two contributions and not simply interpret changes in total electromagnetic energy as evidence of plasma emission.

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A review of solar type III radio bursts

Cited by 340 publications

References 255 publications

Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particle event characteristics

Solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particle event characteristics

On-Disc Observations of Flux Rope Formation Prior to Its Eruption

Self-consistent particle-in-cell simulations of fundamental and harmonic plasma radio emission mechanisms

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