Study of plasma heating processes in a coronal mass ejection-driven shock sheath region observed with the Metis coronagraph

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Result on the web

<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0353185" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0353185</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad26fb" target="_blank" >10.3847/1538-4357/ad26fb</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Study of plasma heating processes in a coronal mass ejection-driven shock sheath region observed with the Metis coronagraph

Original language description

On 2021 September 28, a C1.6 class flare occurred in active region NOAA 12871, located approximately at 27 degrees S and 51 degrees W on the solar disk with respect to Earth's point of view. This event was followed by a partial halo coronal mass ejection (CME) that caused the deflection of preexisting coronal streamer structures, as observed in visible-light coronagraphic images. An associated type II radio burst was also detected by both space- and ground-based instruments, indicating the presence of a coronal shock propagating into interplanetary space. By using H i Ly alpha (121.6 nm) observations from the Metis coronagraph on board the Solar Orbiter mission, we demonstrate for the first time the capability of UV imaging to provide, via a Doppler dimming technique, an upper limit estimate of the evolution of the 2D proton kinetic temperature in the CME-driven shock sheath as it passes through the field of view of the instrument. Our results suggest that over the 22 minutes of observations, the shock propagated with a speed decreasing from about 740 +/- 110 km s-1 to 400 +/- 60 km s-1. At the same time, the postshock proton temperatures peaked at latitudes around the shock nose and decreased with time from about 6.8 +/- 1.01 MK to 3.1 +/- 0.47 MK. The application of the Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions demonstrates that these temperatures are higher by a factor of about 2-5 than those expected from simple adiabatic compression, implying that significant shock heating is still going on at these distances.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Astrophysical Journal

ISSN

0004-637X

e-ISSN

1538-4357

Volume of the periodical

964

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

15

UT code for WoS article

001183677700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187568866