Detailed look at the temporal correlation between hard X-ray flare and type III radio bursts
- Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland (bhunias@tcd.ie)
It is well known that flare-accelerated electrons can produce both hard X-ray (HXR) emission and Type-III radio bursts. The HXR emission is produced by the accelerated electrons propagating towards the chromosphere where they deposit their energy while Type-III radio bursts are produced by the accelerated electron beams traveling towards the outer solar atmosphere. Hence a temporal correlation between these two kinds of emission may imply a common origin of the accelerated electrons providing insight into the acceleration process, and allows us to connect electrons at the Sun to those in the heliosphere. On 2022-Nov-11 11:30 - 12:00 UT, the Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on Solar Orbiter observed a highly energetic flare event with an excellent time resolution of 0.5 s. Simultaneously there were observations of multiple coronal and interplanetary Type-III radio bursts from several instruments such as I-LOFAR, WIND/WAVES, NDA and ORFEES. I-LOFAR provides high-sensitivity imaging spectroscopy in the range of ~10-240 MHz with a time resolution of 1.31 ms and a frequency resolution of 195 kHz. We examine the temporal correlation between the X-ray and radio time series and discuss the relationship between the two and what it implies about the origin of the electron populations producing these two kinds of radiation.
How to cite: Bhunia, S., Hayes, L., Maloney, S., and Gallagher, P.: Detailed look at the temporal correlation between hard X-ray flare and type III radio bursts, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-16350, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16350, 2023.