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000004550 037__ $$aCTALK-2020-0028
000004550 100__ $$aRyan, Aoife
000004550 245__ $$aImaging the Solar Corona during the 2015 March 20 Eclipse using LOFAR
000004550 260__ $$c2019
000004550 269__ $$c2019-07-08
000004550 520__ $$aThe solar corona is a highly-structured plasma which reaches temperatures of more than ~2MK. At low radio frequencies (≤ 400 MHz), scattering and refraction of electromagnetic waves are thought to broaden sources to several arcminutes. However, exactly how source size relates to scattering due to turbulence is still subject to investigation. This is mainly due to the lack of high spatial resolution observations of the solar corona at low frequencies. Here, we use the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) to observe the solar corona at 120-180 MHz using baselines of up to ~3.5 km (~1--2’) during a partial solar eclipse of 2015 March 20. We use a lunar de-occultation technique to achieve higher spatial resolution than that attainable via traditional interferometric imaging. This provides a means of studying source sizes in the corona that are smaller than the angular width of the interferometric point spread function.
000004550 594__ $$aNO
000004550 700__ $$aGallagher, Peter
000004550 700__ $$aCarley, Eoin
000004550 700__ $$aMorosan, Diana
000004550 700__ $$aBrentjens, Michiel
000004550 700__ $$aZucca, Pietro
000004550 700__ $$aFallows, Richard
000004550 700__ $$aVocks, Vocks
000004550 700__ $$aMann, Gottfried
000004550 700__ $$aBreitling, Frank
000004550 700__ $$aMagdalenic, Jasmina
000004550 700__ $$aKerdraon, Alain
000004550 700__ $$aReid, Hamish
000004550 773__ $$tCESRA 2019, Potsdam
000004550 8560_ $$fimmanuel.jebaraj@observatoire.be
000004550 906__ $$aContributed
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