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Type III radio bursts are the result of plasma emission from mildly relativistic electron beams propagating from the low solar corona into the heliosphere where they can eventually be detected in situ if they align with the location of a…

The Sun is an active star that often produces numerous bursts of electromagnetic radiation at radio wavelengths. Low frequency radio bursts have recently been brought back to light with the advancement of novel radio interferometers.…

The solar corona is a highly-structured plasma which can reach temperatures of more than ~2 MK. At low frequencies (decimetric and metric wavelengths), scattering and refraction of electromagnetic waves are thought to considerably increase…

Low-frequency (80-240 MHz) radio observations of the solar corona are presented using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), and several discoveries are reported. The corona is reviewed, followed by chapters on Type III bursts and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Patrick I. McCauley

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

We will use new data from the High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) with unprecedented spatial resolution of the solar corona to investigate the structure of coronal loops down to 0.2 arcsec. During a rocket flight Hi-C provided images of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Peter , S. Bingert , J. A. Klimchuk , C. de Forest , J. W. Cirtain , L. Golub , A. R. Winebarger , K. Kobayashi , K. E. Korreck

Non-thermal electrons accelerated in the solar corona can produce intense coherent radio emission, known as solar type III radio bursts. This intense radio emission is often observed from hundreds of MHz in the corona down to the tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 H. Ratcliffe , E. P. Kontar , H. A. S. Reid

The Sun produces highly dynamic and eruptive events that can drive shocks through the corona. These shocks can accelerate electrons, which result in plasma emission in the form of a type II radio burst. Despite the large number of type II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ciara A. Maguire , Eoin P. Carley , Pietro Zucca , Nicole Vilmer , Peter T. Gallagher

Solar radio observations provide a unique diagnostic of the outer solar atmosphere. However, the inhomogeneous turbulent corona strongly affects the propagation of the emitted radio waves, so decoupling the intrinsic properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-22 E. P. Kontar , S. Yu , A. A. Kuznetsov , A. G. Emslie , B. Alcock , N. L. S. Jeffrey , V. N. Melnik , N. H. Bian , P. Subramanian

Context. The Sun is an active source of radio emission that is often associated with energetic phenomena ranging from nanoflares to coronal mass ejections (CMEs). At low radio frequencies (<100 MHz), numerous millisecond duration radio…

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…

Type U radio bursts are impulsive coherent radio emissions produced by the Sun that indicate the presence of subrelativistic electron beams propagating along magnetic loops in the solar corona. In this work, we present the analysis of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 S. Mancuso , D. Barghini , A. Bemporad , D. Telloni , D. Gardiol , F. Frassati , I. Bizzarri , C. Taricco

New and advanced space-based observing facilities continue to lower the resolution limit and detect solar coronal loops in greater detail. We continue to discover even finer sub-structures within coronal loop cross sections, in order to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eamon Scullion , Luc Rouppe van der Voort , Sven Wedemeyer , Patrick Antolin

Using simultaneous X-ray and radio observations from solar flares, we investigate the link between the type III radio burst starting frequency and hard X-ray spectral index. For a proportion of events the relation derived between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Hamish A. S. Reid , Nicole Vilmer , Eduard P. Kontar

This study examines the shock speed and source height of coronal shock waves using Type II solar radio bursts. The solar radio burst data from January 2022 to October 2023 were obtained from eCALLISTO archive. The type II radio bursts were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 G. L. S. S. Liyanage , J. Adassuriya , K. P. S. C. Jayaratne , C. Monstien

Metric and decametric radio-emissions from the Sun are the only direct source of information about the dynamics of non-thermal electrons in the upper corona. In addition, the combination of spectral and imaging (sizes, shapes, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 M. Gordovskyy , E. P. Kontar , D. L. Clarkson , N. Chrysaphi , P. K. Browning

The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Alexey A. Kuznetsov , Gregory D. Fleishman , Gelu M. Nita , Sergey A. Anfinogentov

The Type-II solar radio burst recorded on 13 June 2010 by the radio spectrograph of the Hiraiso Solar Observatory was employed to estimate the magnetic-field strength in the solar corona. The burst was characterized by a well pronounced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Vasanth , S. Umapathy , B. Vršnak , T. Žic , O. Prakash

Measurement of the coronal magnetic field is a crucial ingredient in understanding the nature of solar coronal dynamic phenomena at all scales. We employ STEREO/COR1 data obtained near maximum of solar activity in December 2012 (Carrington…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-05 Maxim Kramar , Vladimir Airapetian , Haosheng Lin