EGU25-14886, updated on 15 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-14886
EGU General Assembly 2025
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Poster | Thursday, 01 May, 14:00–15:45 (CEST), Display time Thursday, 01 May, 08:30–18:00
 
vPoster spot 3, vP3.23
Circularly Polarized Type III Storms Observed with PSP
Marc Pulupa1, Stuart Bale1,2, Immanuel Jebaraj3, Orlando Romeo1, and Säm Krucker4
Marc Pulupa et al.
  • 1UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, United States of America (pulupa@berkeley.edu)
  • 2Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • 3Space Research Laboratory, University of Turku, Finland
  • 4University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland

During the active phase of solar cycle 25, the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft frequently observes circularly polarized Type III radio storms. The most intense and longest duration event occurred following a large coronal mass ejection (CME) on 5 September 2022. For several days following the CME, PSP observed a storm of Type III radio bursts. The polarization of the storm started as left hand circularly polarized (LHC) and switched to right hand circularly polarized (RHC) at the crossing of the heliospheric current sheet.

We analyze properties of this Type III storm. The drift rate of the Type IIIs indicates a constant beam speed of ~0.1c, typical for Type III-producing electron beams. The sense of polarization is consistent with fundamental emission generated primarily in the o-mode.

In addition to this prototypical event, we present a survey of radio observations throughout the PSP mission, demonstrating that the majority of encounters contain Type III storms, that the storms are typically strongly (but not completely) circularly polarized, and that the sense of polarization and the sign of the radial magnetic field are consistent with o-mode emission.

How to cite: Pulupa, M., Bale, S., Jebaraj, I., Romeo, O., and Krucker, S.: Circularly Polarized Type III Storms Observed with PSP, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-14886, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-14886, 2025.