Current and Next-Gen Solar Radio Observations as Multi-messenger Complements to Your Work

Authors: Brian O'Donnell (NJIT-Center for Solar Terrestrial Research), Dale E. Gary (NJIT-Center for Solar Terrestrial Research)

The enormous range of frequencies/energies of electromagnetic radiation below the thermal spectra and commonly reported elemental lines of the Sun hold signatures of a board array of physical phenomena from the quite Sun to active regions to flares, ejections, and other energetic events.

Currently in GHz (with EOVSA) spectra and images are produced which can be used to map the changes in particle density and magnetic field across a flaring active region over time

Currently in MHz (with LWA) there have been images and spectra of SEPs, both escaping the sun and being turn back toward the surface, and of CME shock fronts, along with a quite sun background which stretches to 1.5+(Optical) Solar Radii

And EOVSA-15 and the OVRO-LWA are about to leave commissioning and improve both data quality and volume in both of those regimes the current solar/stellar radio community is trying to outreach and show other astronomers  the depths of the data we will soon be drowning in and never get to the bottom of ourselves

In that interest this poster will be about the basic production processes of Radio waves and Microwaves on the Sun, the temporal and spectral signatures that those process create, the current (and soon to be current) tool for processing those spectra, the gaps in our current set of arrays, and plans/discussions for the further “next-gen” array to fill those gaps.

All to communicate with the community about our fascinating (open-source and understudied) data