A high-frequency type II radio burst associated with an X2.3 class flare
Abstract
Radio observations provide a powerful diagnostic of the solar corona, enabling investigations of dynamic phenomena associated with solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and shock waves. We present a multiwavelength analysis of a rare high-frequency type II radio burst (starting frequency of ∼750 MHz and frequency drift rate of ∼0.5 MHz s−1) associated with the X2.3-class solar flare that occurred on 6 November 2024. A propagating EUV disturbance was observed shortly after the flare onset in the SDO/AIA field of view, while radio spectrographs recorded the type II burst between 13:46 and 13:56 UT over a frequency range of ∼750 to 45 MHz. Radio imaging observations from the Nançay Radioheliograph (NRH) show that the radio sources propagate southward during the event. X-ray spectroscopy from HEL1OS onboard Aditya-L1 and imaging observations from STIX onboard Solar Orbiter reveal signatures of efficient non-thermal electron acceleration associated with the flare. An NLFFF extrapolation identifies a pre-eruptive magnetic flux rope in the source region, while white-light coronagraph observations obtained during the event show no detectable large-scale CME. The speed of the erupting flux rope, derived from stereoscopic EUV observations, is consistent, within measurement uncertainties, with the shock speed inferred from the radio dynamic spectrum. Together, these observations suggest that compact flux rope eruptions, even in the absence of a detectable white-light CME, can generate low-coronal shocks capable of producing high-frequency type II radio emission.
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BibTeX
@misc{paliwal2026highfrequency,
title = {{A high-frequency type II radio burst associated with an X2.3 class flare}},
author = {Divya Paliwal and Anshu Kumari and Vishwa Vijay Singh and Dinesh Mishra and Pritam Das and Nadiya K},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.28370},
eprint = {2608.28370},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28370},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A high-frequency type II radio burst associated with an X2.3 class flare
AU - Divya Paliwal
AU - Anshu Kumari
AU - Vishwa Vijay Singh
AU - Dinesh Mishra
AU - Pritam Das
AU - Nadiya K
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.28370
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28370
AB - Radio observations provide a powerful diagnostic of the solar corona, enabling investigations of dynamic phenomena associated with solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), and shock waves. We present a multiwavelength analysis of a rare high-frequency type II radio burst (starting frequency of ∼750 MHz and frequency drift rate of ∼0.5 MHz s^−1) associated with the X2.3-class solar flare that occurred on 6 November 2024. A propagating EUV disturbance was observed shortly after the flare onset in the SDO/AIA field of view, while radio spectrographs recorded the type II burst between 13:46 and 13:56 UT over a frequency range of ∼750 to 45 MHz. Radio imaging observations from the Nançay Radioheliograph (NRH) show that the radio sources propagate southward during the event. X-ray spectroscopy from HEL1OS onboard Aditya-L1 and imaging observations from STIX onboard Solar Orbiter reveal signatures of efficient non-thermal electron acceleration associated with the flare. An NLFFF extrapolation identifies a pre-eruptive magnetic flux rope in the source region, while white-light coronagraph observations obtained during the event show no detectable large-scale CME. The speed of the erupting flux rope, derived from stereoscopic EUV observations, is consistent, within measurement uncertainties, with the shock speed inferred from the radio dynamic spectrum. Together, these observations suggest that compact flux rope eruptions, even in the absence of a detectable white-light CME, can generate low-coronal shocks capable of producing high-frequency type II radio emission.
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