Investigating the Conditions of the Formation of a Type II Radio Burst on 2014 January 8

Abstract

It is believed that type II radio bursts are generated by shock waves. In order to understand the generation conditions of type II radio bursts, in this paper, we analyze the physical parameters of a shock front. The type II radio burst we selected was observed by Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) and Learmonth radio station and was associated with a limb CME occurring on 2014 January 8 observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The evolution of the CME in the inner corona presents a double-layered structure that propagates outward. We fit the outer layer of the structure with a partial circle and divide it into 7 directions from -45${}^{\circ }$ to 45${}^{\circ }$ with an angular separation of 15${}^{\circ }$. We measure the outer layer speed along the 7 directions, and find that the speed in the direction of -15${}^{\circ }$ with respect to the central direction is the fastest. We use the differential emission measure (DEM) method to calculate the physical parameters at the outer layer at the moment when the type II radio burst was initiated, including the temperature ($T$), emission measure ($EM$), temperature ratio ($T_d/T_u$), compression ratio ($X$), and Alfvén Mach number ($M_A$). We compare the quantities $X$ and $M_A$ to that obtained from band-splitting in the radio spectrum, and find that this type II radio burst is generated at a small region of the outer layer that is located at the sector in 45${}^{\circ }$ direction. The results suggest that the generation of type II radio bursts (shock) requires larger values of $X$ and $M_A$ rather than simply a higher speed of the disturbance.

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