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Faraday rotation measurements of the solar corona made with the Very Large Array (VLA) at frequencies of 1465 and 1665 MHz are reported. The measurements were made along 20 lines of sight to 19 extragalactic radio sources in March and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Laura D. Ingleby , Steven R. Spangler , Catherine A. Whiting

A technique is described for measuring electrical currents in the solar corona. It uses radioastronomical polarization measurements of a spatially-extended radio source viewed through the corona. The observations yield the difference in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large-scale eruptions of plasma from the Sun that play an important role in space weather. Faraday rotation (FR) is the rotation of the plane of polarization that results when a linearly polarized signal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jason E. Kooi , Patrick D. Fischer , Jacob J. Buffo , Steven R. Spangler

Remarkable progress has been made in understanding turbulent astrophysical plasmas in past decades including, notably, the solar wind and the interstellar medium. In the case of the solar wind, much of this progress has relied on in situ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Tim Bastian , James Cordes , Justin Kasper , Adam Kobelski , Kelly Korreck , Gregory Howe , Steven Spangler , Chadi Salem , Angelos Vourlidas

We present a novel experiment with the capacity to independently measure both the electron density and the magnetic field of the solar corona. We achieve this through measurement of the excess Faraday rotation due to propagation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Ord , S. Johnston , J. Sarkissian

The "middle corona," defined by West et al. (2022) as the region between ~1.5-6 solar radii, is a critical transition region that connects the highly structured lower corona to the outer corona where the magnetic field becomes predominantly…

Faraday rotation measurements of extragalactic radio sources occulted by the solar corona serve as a powerful complementary tool for probing the pre-eruption electron density and magnetic field structure. These measurements thereby allow us…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Salvatore Mancuso

Many competing models for the coronal heating and acceleration mechanisms of the high-speed solar wind depend on the solar magnetic field and plasma structure in the corona within heliocentric distances of $5R_\odot$. We report on sensitive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jason E. Kooi , Patrick D. Fischer , Jacob J. Buffo , Steven R. Spangler

Context: Faraday rotation measurements of extragalactic radio sources during coronal occultation allow assessment of both the electron density distribution and the three-dimensional magnetic field topology in the outer solar corona. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

The magnetic field of the solar wind near the Sun is very difficult to measure directly. Measurements of Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radio sources occulted by the solar wind provide a unique opportunity to estimate this magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 X. P. You , W. A. Coles , G. B. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) evolve significantly as they propagate from the Sun to the Earth, so remote observations of their changes in speed, strength of the magnetic field, density, and overall structure are critical for predicting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-02 Elizabeth A. Jensen , Ward B. Manchester , Jason E. Kooi , Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla , Lan K. Jian , David B. Wexler , Shing Fung , Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy

Angular broadening observations of compact radio sources provide a powerful method for probing the solar corona and solar wind. Such observations enable studies of the phase structure function, turbulence amplitude, intermediate-scale…

The technique of Faraday tomography is a key tool for the study of magnetised plasmas in the new era of broadband radio polarisation observations. In particular, observations at metre-wavelengths provide significantly better Faraday depth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Shane P. O'Sullivan , M. Brüggen , C. L. Van Eck , M. J. Hardcastle , M. Haverkorn , T. W. Shimwell , C. Tasse , V. Vacca , C. Horellou , G. Heald

Radio signals propagating via the solar corona and solar wind are significantly affected by compressive waves, impacting properties of solar bursts as well as sources viewed through the turbulent solar atmosphere. While static fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Francesco Azzollini , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Eduard P. Kontar

Macroscopic wave and oscillatory phenomena ubiquitously detected in the plasma of the corona of the Sun are interpreted in terms of magnetohydrodynamic theory. Fast and slow magnetoacoustic waves are clearly distinguished in observations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Valery M. Nakariakov , Sihui Zhong , Dmitrii Y. Kolotkov , Rebecca L. Meadowcroft , Yu Zhong , Ding Yuan

Faraday rotation measures (RMs) of the polarized emission from extragalactic radio sources occulted by the coronal plasma were used to infer the radial profile of the inner heliospheric magnetic field near solar minimum activity. By…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-20 S. Mancuso , M. V. Garzelli

We describe a method to measure the magnetic field orientation of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) using Faraday rotation (FR). Two basic FR profiles, Gaussian-shaped with a single polarity or "N"-like with polarity reversals, are produced by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Y. Liu , W. B. Manchester , J. C. Kasper , J. D. Richardson , J. W. Belcher

Understanding many physical processes in the solar atmosphere requires determination of the magnetic field in each atmospheric layer. However, direct measurements of the magnetic field in the Sun's corona are difficult to obtain. Using…

Faraday rotation measurements have provided an invaluable technique with which to measure the properties of astrophysical magnetized plasmas. Unfortunately, typical observations provide information only about the density-weighted average of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Avery E. Broderick , Roger D. Blandford

Plasma turbulence cascading from MHD to kinetic scales in the heliospheric plasma is believed to play a key role in coronal heating and fast solar wind acceleration, but the properties of the turbulence remain poorly constrained by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Eduard P. Kontar , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Alexander Pitna
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