Shocks and Waves

Apr 27, 2020
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Solar Flare CME Plasma Physics Radio Astronomy
Prof. Bin Chen
Prof. Bin Chen
Solar Astrophysicist
Professor of Physics

My research interests include radio astronomy and instrumentation, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, magnetic reconnection, shocks, and particle acceleration.

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Publications

Radio Spectral Imaging of an M8.4 Eruptive Solar Flare: Possible Evidence of a Termination Shock
Solar flare termination shocks have been suggested as one of the viable mechanisms for accelerating electrons and ions to high …
Yingjie Luo, Bin Chen, Sijie Yu, T. Bastian, Säm Krucker
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The Acceleration and Confinement of Energetic Electrons by a Termination Shock in a Magnetic Trap: An Explanation for Nonthermal Loop-top Sources during Solar Flares
Nonthermal loop-top sources in solar flares are the most prominent observational signatures that suggest energy release and particle …
Xiangliang Kong, Fan Guo, Chengcai Shen, Bin Chen, Yao Chen, Sophie Musset, Lindsay Glesener, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Joe Giacalone
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Radio Spectroscopic Imaging of a Solar Flare Termination Shock: Split-band Feature as Evidence for Shock Compression
Solar flare termination shocks have been suggested as one of the promising drivers for particle acceleration in solar flares, yet …
Bin Chen, Chengcai Shen, Katharine K. Reeves, Fan Guo, Sijie Yu
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Possible Detection of Subsecond-period Propagating Magnetohydrodynamics Waves in Post-reconnection Magnetic Loops during a Two-ribbon Solar Flare
Solar flares involve the sudden release of magnetic energy in the solar corona. Accelerated nonthermal electrons have often been …
Sijie Yu, Bin Chen
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The Dynamical Behavior of Reconnection-driven Termination Shocks in Solar Flares: Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations
In eruptive solar flares, termination shocks (TSs), formed when high- speed reconnection outflows collide with closed dense flaring …
Chengcai Shen, Xiangliang Kong, Fan Guo, John C. Raymond, Bin Chen
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Global Sausage Oscillation of Solar Flare Loops Detected by the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph
An observation from the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph reveals coherent oscillations in the loops of an M1.6 flare on 2015 March …
Hui Tian, Peter R. Young, Katharine K. Reeves, Tongjiang Wang, Patrick Antolin, Bin Chen, Jiansen He
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Particle acceleration by a solar flare termination shock
Solar flares—the most powerful explosions in the solar system—are also efficient particle accelerators, capable of energizing a large …
Bin Chen, Timothy S. Bastian, Chengcai Shen, Dale E. Gary, Säm Krucker, Lindsay Glesener
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Particle acceleration by a solar flare termination shock