English
Related papers

Related papers: On the speed and acceleration of electron beams tr…

200 papers

Radio U-bursts and J-bursts are signatures of electron beams propagating along magnetic loops confined to the corona. The more commonly observed type III radio bursts are signatures of electron beams propagating along magnetic loops that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Solar type III radio bursts are generated by beams of energetic electrons that travel along open magnetic field lines through the corona and into interplanetary space. However, understanding the source of these electrons and how they escape…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Meiqi Wang , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu , Dale E. Gary , Jeongwoo Lee , Haimin Wang , Christina Cohen

Type III radio bursts are radio emissions associated with solar flares. They are considered to be caused by electron beams traveling from the solar corona to the solar wind. Magnetic reconnection is a possible accelerator of electron beams…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Xin Yao , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner , Xiaowei Zhou , Siming Liu

The Sun frequently accelerates near-relativistic electron beams that travel out through the solar corona and interplanetary space. Interacting with their plasma environment, these beams produce type III radio bursts, the brightest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Hamish A. S. Reid , Eduard P. Kontar

Understanding electron acceleration associated with magnetic energy release at sub-second scales presents a major challenges in solar physics. Solar radio spikes observed as sub-second, narrow bandwidth bursts with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 Daniel L. Clarkson , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicole Vilmer , Mykola Gordovskyy , Xingyao Chen , Nicolina Chrysaphi

Type III solar radio bursts are driven by non-thermal electron beams travelling along heliospheric magnetic fields, with the radio emission frequency drift-rate determined by the beam speed and the plasma density profile. Analysing beam…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Daniel L. Clarkson , Eduard P. Kontar

Type III radio bursts are a signature of the flux of near-relativistic electrons ejected during solar flares. These bursts are frequently observed by spacecraft such as the Parker Solar Probe. It is traditionally believed that these…

We report on the close similarity of coronal mass ejection (CME) properties in ground level enhancement (GLE) in solar energetic particle (SEP) events and sustained gamma ray emission (SGRE) from the Sun as indicated by low frequency type…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Nat Gopalswamy , Anshu Kumari , Pertti A. Mäkelä

Solar type III radio bursts are excited by electron beams propagating outward from the Sun. The flux of type III radio burst has a time profile of rising and decay phase at a given frequency, which has been actively studied since 1970s.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-13 PeiJin Zhang , SiJie Yu , Eduard Kontar , ChuanBing Wang

The type III observations trace the propagation of energetic electron populations through the Solar Corona which, more often than not, precede or are associated with energy release on the Sun. A sample of Type III bursts in the range 20-650…

Context: The last few decades has seen numerous studies dedicated to fine structures of type III radio bursts observed in the metric to decametric wavelengths. Majority of explanations of the structured radio emission involve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Immanuel C. Jebaraj , Jasmina Magdalenić , Vladimir Krasnoselskikh , Vratislav Krupar , Stefaan Poedts

The Sun is the source of different types of radio bursts that are associated with solar flares, for example. Among the most frequently observed phenomena are type III solar bursts. Their radio images at low frequencies (below 100 MHz) are…

Electrons accelerated by solar flares and observed as type III solar radio bursts are not only a crucial diagnostic tool for understanding electron transport in the inner heliosphere but also a possible early indication of potentially…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Eduard P. Kontar , Francesco Azzollini , Olena Lyubchyk

On 17 January 2005 two fast coronal mass ejections were recorded in close succession during two distinct episodes of a 3B/X3.8 flare. Both were accompanied by metre-to-kilometre type-III groups tracing energetic electrons that escape into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Hillaris , O. Malandraki , K. -L Klein , P. Preka-Papadema , X. Moussas , C. Bouratzis , E. Mitsakou , P. Tsitsipis , A. Kontogeorgos

Solar type II radio bursts are the signature of particle acceleration by shock waves in the solar corona and interplanetary medium. The shocks originate in solar eruptions involving coronal mass ejections (CMEs) moving at super-Alfvenic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Nat Gopalswamy , Pertti Mäkelä , Seiji Yashiro

Low-frequency radio phenomena are due to the presence of nonthermal electrons in the interplanetary (IP) medium. Understanding these phenomena is important in characterizing the space environment near Earth and other destinations in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-10 Nat Gopalswamy

First-principle studies of radiative processes aimed at explaining the origin of type II and type III solar radio bursts raise questions on the implications of downshifted electron beam plasma excitations with frequency (slightly) below the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-02 M. Lazar , R. A. López , S. M. Shaaban , S. Poedts , H. Fichtner

Dynamics of an spatially limited electron beam in the inhomogeneous solar corona plasma is considered in the framework of weak turbulence theory when the temperature of the beam significantly exceeds that of surrounding plasma. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Eduard P. Kontar

We present meter wave solar radio spectra of the highest spectrotemporal resolution achieved to date. The observations, obtained with the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1), show unprecedented detail of solar emissions across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Samuel Tun Beltran , Sean Cutchin , Stephen White

Using the Wind/WAVES radio observations from 2010-2013, we present an analysis of the 123 decametric-hectometric (DH) type II solar radio bursts during this period, the associated type III burst properties, and their correlation with solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 L. M. Winter , K. Ledbetter