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STEREO-Wind Radio Positioning of an Unusually Slow Drifting Event

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2015-06-23 v1

Abstract

On 13 March 2010 an unusually long duration event was observed by radio spectrographs onboard the STEREO-B and Wind spacecraft. The event started at about 13:00 UT and ended at approximately 06:00 UT on 14 March. The event presents itself as slow drifting, quasi-continuous emission in a very narrow frequency interval, with an apparent frequency drift from about 625 kHz to approximately 425 kHz. Using the Leblanc, Dulk, and Bougeret (1998) interplanetary density model we determined that the drift velocities of the radio source are \approx33km s1^{-1} and \approx52km s1^{-1} for 0.2 and 0.5 times the densities of Leblanc model, respectively with a normalization density of 7.2cm3^{-3} at 1AU and assuming harmonic emission. A joint analysis of the radio direction finding data, coronograph white-light observations and modeling revealed that the radio sources appear to be localized in regions of interaction with relatively high density and slow solar wind speed.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3352,
  title  = {STEREO-Wind Radio Positioning of an Unusually Slow Drifting Event},
  author = {J. C. Martínez-Oliveros and C. Raftery and H. Bain and Y. Liu and M. Pulupa and P. Saint-Hilaire and P. Higgins and V. Krupar and Säm Krucker and S. D. Bale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3352},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted in Solar Physics