# Three-dimensional reconstruction of CME-driven shock-streamer   interaction from radio and EUV observations: a different take on the   diagnostics of coronal magnetic fields

**Authors:** S. Mancuso, F. Frassati, A. Bemporad, and D. Barghini

arXiv: 1903.06604 · 2019-04-03

## TL;DR

This study reconstructs the 3D structure of a CME-driven shock and streamer interaction using radio and EUV data, enabling magnetic field estimation in the inner corona without stereoscopic observations.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel method combining radio and EUV observations to model CME/shock geometry and infer coronal magnetic fields without stereoscopy.

## Key findings

- Reconstructed 3D CME/shock geometry from radio and EUV data.
- Derived magnetic field profile in the inner corona as B(r) = (12.6 ± 2.5) r^{-4}.
- Validated the method with previous magnetic field estimates.

## Abstract

On 2014 October 30, a band-splitted type II radio burst associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) occurred over the southeast limb of the Sun. The fast expansion in all directions of the plasma front acted as a piston and drove a spherical fast shock ahead of it, whose outward progression was traced by simultaneous images obtained with the Nan\c{c}ay Radioheliograph (NRH). The geometry of the CME/shock event was recovered through 3D modeling, given the absence of concomitant stereoscopic observations, and assuming that the band-splitted type II burst was emitted at the intersection of the shock surface with two adjacent low-Alfven speed coronal streamers. From the derived spatiotemporal evolution of the standoff distance between shock and CME leading edge, we were finally able to infer the magnetic field strength $B$ in the inner corona. A simple radial profile of the form $B(r) = (12.6 \pm 2.5) r^{-4}$ nicely fits our results, together with previous estimates, in the range $r = 1.1-2.0$ solar radii.

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