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Flare Generated Shock Wave Propagation Through Solar Coronal Arcade Loops and Associated Type II Radio Burst

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

This paper presents multiwavelength observations of a flare-generated type II radio burst. The kinematics of the shock derived from the type II closely match a fast EUV wave seen propagating through coronal arcade loops. The EUV wave was closely associated with an impulsive M1.0 flare without a related coronal mass ejection, and was triggered at one of the footpoints of the arcade loops in active region NOAA 12035. It was initially observed in the AIA 335 \AA\ images with a speed of ~800 km/s and accelerated to ~1490 km/s after passing through the arcade loops. A fan-spine magnetic topology was revealed at the flare site. A small, confined filament eruption (~340 km/s) was also observed moving in the opposite direction to the EUV wave. We suggest that breakout reconnection in the fan-spine topology triggered the flare and associated EUV wave that propagated as a fast shock through the arcade loops.

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@article{arxiv.1606.05056,
  title  = {Flare Generated Shock Wave Propagation Through Solar Coronal Arcade Loops and Associated Type II Radio Burst},
  author = {Pankaj Kumar and D. E. Innes and K. S. Cho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05056},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

ApJ, 12 Pages, 8 Figures