An Eruptive Prominence and Associated Cm-Mm Emission Outside the Solar Limb
Abstract
We present radio maps at 22 and 44 GHz which show the emission before and after the eruption of a quiescent prominence located at the west limb. The observed radiation following the eruption is not consistent with thermal bremsstrahlung mechanism. It can be interpreted as due to gyrosynchrotron emission of nonthermal electrons. Our observations appear to be similar to the microwave radiation observed in post-flare loops; this radiation is due to nonthermal electrons trapped in the closed magnetic structures formed after the prominence eruption.
- Publication:
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Solar Physics
- Pub Date:
- March 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00171716
- Bibcode:
- 1988SoPh..116...83Z
- Keywords:
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- Solar Flares;
- Solar Limb;
- Solar Prominences;
- Astronomical Maps;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Solar Physics