Radio and visible light observations of matter ejected from the sun
Abstract
An initial set of visible light and radio observations of a coronal transient made with the Coronagraph/Polarimeter experiment on SMM and the radioheliograph at Culgoora, Australia is presented. It is noted that an enormous loop-shaped transient observed on April 7, 1980, exhibited bright material having whiplike, nonradial motions, as well as moving and stationary radio sources. The data make it possible to establish that a moving type IV radio source was located on or very close to the fast-moving loop. The thermal, kinetic, and magnetic energies in the transient are estimated and, for the first time, compared with the radiative energy of the associated flare.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1086/183495
- Bibcode:
- 1981ApJ...244L.123W
- Keywords:
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- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Flares;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar Maximum Mission;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Coronal Loops;
- Ejecta;
- Mass Transfer;
- Radio Observation;
- Transient Response;
- Visible Spectrum;
- Solar Physics