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Title: | Physical Conditions of Coronal Plasma at the Transit of a Shock Driven by a Coronal Mass Ejection | Authors: | SUSINO, ROBERTO BEMPORAD, Alessandro MANCUSO, Salvatore |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 812 | Issue: | 2 | First Page: | 119 | Abstract: | We report here on the determination of plasma physical parameters across a shock driven by a coronal mass ejection using white light (WL) coronagraphic images and radio dynamic spectra (RDS). The event analyzed here is the spectacular eruption that occurred on 2011 June 7, a fast CME followed by the ejection of columns of chromospheric plasma, part of them falling back to the solar surface, associated with a M2.5 flare and a type-II radio burst. Images acquired by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/LASCO coronagraphs (C2 and C3) were employed to track the CME-driven shock in the corona between 2-12 R<SUB>☉</SUB> in an angular interval of about 110°. In this interval we derived two-dimensional (2D) maps of electron density, shock velocity, and shock compression ratio, and we measured the shock inclination angle with respect to the radial direction. Under plausible assumptions, these quantities were used to infer 2D maps of shock Mach number M<SUB>A</SUB> and strength of coronal magnetic fields at the shock's heights. We found that in the early phases (2-4 R<SUB>☉</SUB>) the whole shock surface is super-Alfvénic, while later on (i.e., higher up) it becomes super-Alfvénic only at the nose. This is in agreement with the location for the source of the observed type-II burst, as inferred from RDS combined with the shock kinematic and coronal densities derived from WL. For the first time, a coronal shock is used to derive a 2D map of the coronal magnetic field strength over intervals of 10 R<SUB>☉</SUB> altitude and ̃110° latitude. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23495 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/119 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/119 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ApJ...812..119S | Fulltext: | open |
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