Possible First Detection of Gyroresonance Emission from a Coronal Mass Ejection in the Middle Corona
Surajit Mondal, Bin Chen, Xingyao Chen, Sijie Yu, Dale Gary, Peijin Zhang, Marin M. Anderson, Judd D. Bowman, Ruby Byrne, Morgan Catha, Sherry Chhabra, Larry D Addario, Ivey Davis, Jayce Dowell, Katherine Elder, Gregg Hallinan, Charlie Harnach, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Rick Hobbs, David Hodge, Mark Hodges, Yuping Huang, Andrea Isella, Daniel C. Jacobs, Ghislain Kemby, John T Klinefelter, Matthew Kolopanis, Nikita Kosogorov, James Lamb, Casey Law, Nivedita Mahesh, Brian O Donnell, Kathryn Plant, Corey Posner, Travis Powell, Vinand Prayag, Andres Rizo, Andrew Romero-Wolf, Jun Shi, Greg Taylor, Jordan Trim, Mike Virgin, Akshatha Vydula, Sandy Weinreb, Scott White, David Woody, Thomas Zentmeyer
Published: 2025/9/19
Abstract
Routine measurements of the magnetic field of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) have been a key challenge in solar physics. Making such measurements is important both from a space weather perspective and for understanding the detailed evolution of the CME. In spite of significant efforts and multiple proposed methods, achieving this goal has not been possible to date. Here we report the first possible detection of gyroresonance emission from a CME. Assuming that the emission is happening at the third harmonic, we estimate that the magnetic field strength ranges from 7.9--5.6 G between 4.9-7.5 $R_\odot$. We also demonstrate that this high magnetic field is not the average magnetic field inside the CME, but most probably is related to small magnetic islands, which are also being observed more frequently with the availability of high-resolution and high-quality white-light images.