Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-20
Astron.Astrophys.374:1072,2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 8 figures, Astron.Astrophys. in press
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20010518
An intense radio flare on the dMe star AD Leo, observed with the Effelsberg radio telescope and spectrally resolved in a band of 480 MHz centred at 4.85 GHz is analysed. A lower limit of the brightness temperature of the totally right handed polarized emission is estimated as T_b ~ 5x10^10 K (with values T_b > ~3x10^13 K considered to be more probable), which requires a coherent radio emission process. In the interpretation we favour fundamental plasma radiation by mildly relativistic electrons trapped in a hot and dense coronal loop above electron cyclotron maser emission. This leads to densities and magnetic field strengths in the radio source of n ~ 2x10^11 cm^-3 and B ~ 800 G. Quasi-periodic pulsations during the decay phase of the event suggest a loop radius of r ~ 7x10^8 cm. A filamentary corona is implied in which the dense radio source is embedded in hot thin plasma with temperature T >= 2x10^7 K and density n_ext <= 10^-2 n. Runaway acceleration by sub-Dreicer electric fields in a magnetic loop is found to supply a sufficient number of energetic electrons.
Fuerst Ernst
Hildebrandt Joachim
Jessner Axel
Kliem Bernhard
Krueger Andre
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