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Metric Radio Emission Associated with X-Ray Plasmoid Ejections

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M. R. Kundu1, A. Nindos1,2, N. Vilmer3, K.-L. Klein3, K. Shibata4 and M. Ohyama1

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In this paper we report the first detection of metric/decimetric radio emission associated with two soft X-ray plasmoid ejecta events that occurred during two limb flares observed by the Yohkoh SXT. In the first event a loop started to rise slowly (~10 km s-1) before the beginning of the hard X-ray impulsive phase of the flare. At about the onset of the impulsive flare, there was acceleration of the ejecta, resulting in a speed of 130 km s-1 and finally to ~200 km s-1. The associated radio emission was observed with the Nançay radioheliograph (NRH) in the frequency range of 230-450 MHz. It was an unpolarized continuum that lasted 8-10 minutes. The 410 MHz source was located close to the height where the plasmoid was last identified in the SXT images. In the second event an eruption resulted in the expansion of a large-scale, looplike feature and the development of two plasmoid ejecta which moved in different directions. The speed of the ejecta was 60-100 km s-1. In this event, the associated radio emission was a long-lasting (about 2 hr) continuum observed from 450 to 164 MHz. The onset of the low-frequency emission was delayed with respect to the onset of the high-frequency emission. In both cases the radio sources were located above the soft X-ray ejecta in the general direction of the prolongation of the ejecta movement. In both cases the radio emission comes from nonthermal electrons which are accelerated in close relationship with the propagation of the X-ray plasmoid: as the plasmoid reaches higher altitudes, it interacts with increasingly more extended magnetic field lines and new coronal sites of production of nonthermal electrons are created.


Subject headings

Sun: corona; Sun: flares; Sun: radio radiation; Sun: X-rays, gamma rays


Dates

Issue 1 (2001 September 20)

Received 2000 December 23, accepted for publication 2001 May 14



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