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Microwave plasma emission of a flare on AD Leo | A. V. Stepanov
; B. Kliem
; V. V. Zaitsev
; E. Fuerst
; A. Jessner
; A. Krueger
; J. Hildebrandt
; J. H. M. M. Schmitt
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20 Jun 2001 | Journal: | Astron.Astrophys. 374 (2001) 1072 | Subject: | astro-ph | Abstract: | An intense radio flare on the dMe star AD Leo, observed with the Effelsberg radio telescope and spectrally resolved in a band of 480 MHz centred at 4.85 GHz is analysed. A lower limit of the brightness temperature of the totally right handed polarized emission is estimated as T_b ~ 5x10^10 K (with values T_b > ~3x10^13 K considered to be more probable), which requires a coherent radio emission process. In the interpretation we favour fundamental plasma radiation by mildly relativistic electrons trapped in a hot and dense coronal loop above electron cyclotron maser emission. This leads to densities and magnetic field strengths in the radio source of n ~ 2x10^11 cm^-3 and B ~ 800 G. Quasi-periodic pulsations during the decay phase of the event suggest a loop radius of r ~ 7x10^8 cm. A filamentary corona is implied in which the dense radio source is embedded in hot thin plasma with temperature T >= 2x10^7 K and density n_ext <= 10^-2 n. Runaway acceleration by sub-Dreicer electric fields in a magnetic loop is found to supply a sufficient number of energetic electrons. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0106369 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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