A type II radio burst associated with solar filament–filament interaction

¹ School of Space Science and Physics, Institute of Space Sciences, Shandong University, Weihai, Shandong 264209, China
² Yunnan Key Laboratory of the Solar physics and Space Science, Kunming 650011, China

^⋆ Corresponding author; ruishengzheng@sdu.edu.cn

Received: 7 February 2024
Accepted: 3 August 2024

Abstract

Aims. Solar radio type II bursts are often associated with coronal shocks driven by solar eruptions. In this study, we report a type II burst associated with filament–filament interaction.

Methods. Combining the high-quality multiwavelength observations from CHASE, SDO, STEREO, and CALLISTO, we conducted a detailed study of the type II burst associated with filament–filament interaction.

Results. On 2023 September 11, an erupting filament (F1) likely disturbed a nearby long filament (F2), causing F2 to subsequently erupt. As a result of possible magnetic reconnection between ejective materials from the two filaments, loop-like structures formed perpendicular to them. Subsequently, the expansion of these loop-like structures triggered a strong coronal mass ejection (CME). Interestingly, a type II burst appeared on the solar spectrum around the time when the loop-like structures formed and the CME appeared above the occulting disk of STEREO/COR1. By converting the frequency of the type II burst to the coronal height using polarization brightness data recorded by the COR1 coronagraph and the spherically symmetric polynomial approximation technique, we determined the formation height of the type II burst to be around 1.45 R_⊙, with a speed of approximately 440 km s⁻¹. This is comparable to the observed height of the CME (∼1.43 R_⊙), although slightly lower in speed (540 km s⁻¹).

Conclusions. All these results indicate that the type II burst was closely associated with filament–filament interactions and was possibly excited by the accompanying CME at the flank. We suggest that the filament–filament interactions played an important role in producing the type II burst by acting as a piston to trigger a strong CME.