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Radio ’screams’ from the Sun warn of radiation storms

29 May 2007

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This animation shows a CME throwing off solar energetic particles towards Earth.

Credits: NASA

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The left panel shows a SOHO image of a CME blasting off the sun. To the right is radio spectrum.

Radio bursts are classified as type I to type V and represent various circumstances of eruptions at the Sun. Both radio-quiet and radio-loud CMEs are associated with a type III burst (the vertical feature), which is due to electrons released from the Sun at the lift-off time of CMEs and are not due to CME-driven shocks.

In this image, the radio spectrum shows a type II and type III radio burst, caused by electrons accelerated at the shock driven by the CME.

Credits: ESA/NASA

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The left panel shows a SOHO animation of a CME blasting off the sun. To the right is radio spectrum.

In this animation, the radio spectrum shows a type II and type III radio bursts, caused by electrons accelerated at the shock driven by the CME.

Credits: ESA/NASA/SOHO

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This SOHO image shows a CME blasting off the sun. To the right is radio spectrum.

There is no type II radio burst in this spectra, something that is associated with radio loud CME.

Credits: ESA/NASA

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The SOHO animation to the left shows a CME blasting off the sun. To the right is radio spectrum.

There is no type II radio burst in the spectra in the right panel, something that is associated with radio loud CME.

Credits: ESA/NASA/SOHO

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