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May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spd....40.2209l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #40, #22.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.859
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Current studies on Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are mostly concentrated on their macroscopic properties as measured on White-Light images. On the other hand, radio emissions from CMEs carry the information of high energy particles associated with them, but usually without spatial information. In this regard, the rare radio maps of the 1998 April 20 CME obtained with the Nancay radioheliograph between 164 and 432 MHz (called a radio CME by Bastian et al. in 2001) offer an exceptional opportunity to explore the spatial distribution of high energy electrons inside the CME loop. We present a detailed kinetic model for the radio CME employing the lower hybrid (LH) waves excited by the CME shock as the primary electron acceleration mechanism, and magnetic mirroring and Coulomb collisions as the propagation effects inside the expanding loop. The main constraint in this modeling comes from the fact that the LH waves accelerate electrons parallel to the magnetic field and the accelerated electrons should gain, during propagation, sufficient amount of the perpendicular momentum to emit the synchrotron radiation as observed. The relative magnetic field variation responsible for the magnetic mirroring is inferred from the geometrical shape of the CME on the images of the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO), and the field strength and the amplitude of the LH waves are determined from the observed radio spectra. The modeling is focused on the spatial distribution of the LH waves most plausible to explain the radio maps, and the result is discussed in relation to the associated shock property.
Gary Dale E.
Lee Jeongwoo
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