Microwave burst with fine spectral structures in a solar flare on 2011 August 9

TL;DR

This study analyzes a powerful solar flare from August 9, 2011, revealing complex fine spectral structures in microwave emissions, including pulsations, spike bursts, and type III bursts, with detailed frequency drift characteristics.

Contribution

It provides detailed observations of fine spectral structures and their frequency drift rates during a solar flare, highlighting the complex temporal and spectral features of microwave bursts.

Findings

Short-duration microwave burst of about 5 minutes.

Presence of various fine structures including pulsations, spike bursts, and type III bursts.

Multiple types of frequency drift rates observed in the structures.

Abstract

On August 9, 2011, there was an X6.9 flare event occurred near the west limb of solar disk. From the observation obtained by the spectrometer of the Chinese Solar Broadband Radio Spectrometer in Huairou (SBRS/Huairou) around the flare, we find that this powerful flare has only a short-duration microwave burst of about only 5 minutes, and during the short-duration microwave burst, there are several kinds of fine structures on the spectrogram. These fine structures include very short-period pulsations, millisecond spike bursts, and type III bursts. The most interesting is that almost all of the pulses of very short-period pulsation (VSP) are structured by clusters of millisecond timescales of spike bursts or type III bursts. And there exists three different kinds of frequency drift rates in the VSP: the frequency drift rates with absolute value of about 55 - 130 MHz s^{-1} in the pulse groups, the frequency drift rates with absolute value of about 2.91 - 16.9 GHz s^{-1} on each individual pulse, and the frequency drift rates with absolute value of about 15 - 25 GHz s$^{-1}$) at each individual spike burst or type III burst.