Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope observations of an M2.8 flare: Insights into the initiation of a flare–coronal mass ejection event

Author: Subramanian Prasad   Ananthakrishnan S.   Janardhan P.   Kundu M.R.   White S.M.   Garaimov V.I.  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0038-0938

Source: Solar Physics, Vol.218, Iss.1-2, 2003-12, pp. : 247-259

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Abstract

We present the first observations of a solar flare with the GMRT. An M2.8 flare observed at 1060 MHz with the GMRT on 17 November 2001 was associated with a prominence eruption observed at 17 GHz by the Nobeyama radioheliograph and the initiation of a fast partial halo CME observed with the LASCO C2 coronagraph. Towards the start of the eruption, we find evidence for reconnection above the prominence. Subsequently, we find evidence for rapid growth of a vertical current sheet below the erupting arcade, which is accompanied by the flare and prominence eruption.

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