February 2022 – Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers

Harvest of scientific results by Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves instrument
by Milan Maksimovic

2022-02-15 302 views

For a mission that has just entered its primary science phase, Solar Orbiter has already produced many remarkable results. Released on December 14, 2021, a special issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics brings together a wealth of studies and observations obtained during the mission’s cruise phase. Of the 56 articles published, 25 are based on data from the Radio & Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument (Maksimovic et al., A&A, 2020). The RPW […]

Signatures of Type III Solar Radio Bursts from Nanoflares: Modeling
by Sherry Chhabra et al.*

2022-02-01 240 views

Nanoflares are impulsive energy releases due to small breaks in coronal magnetic fields that have become stressed by photospheric convection. They are too small to be detected individually, but several lines of evidence suggest that they may be a primary candidate of coronal heating. But, whether nanoflares excite particles like full-sized flares is unknown (Vievering et al. 2021). A leading theory of particle acceleration predicts that the efficiency of acceleration […]