CESRA science nuggets - CESRA: Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers

Classification of Type II and Type III Solar Radio Bursts Using Transfer Learning by H. le Roux et al.

March 3, 2026

Solar radio bursts (SRBs) are some of the most interesting signatures of solar activity. Their correlation with large solar eruptions and well-documented disruption to technological infrastructure especially highlights their relevance (Temmer 2021; Li et al. 2024; Liang et al. 2024). As the volume of radio data grows, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that there are reliable automated methods for the classification of SRBs, especially if these methods can contribute […]

Plasma instability at the front of ejected electrons and Type III emission by V. Krasnoselskikh et al.

February 17, 2026

Type III bursts are usually described as a two-step process: energetic electrons excite Langmuir waves, which are then converted into radio emission near the plasma frequency (Ginzburg & Zhelezniakov 1958). The recent discovery of Fundamental-Harmonic pairs by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) shows that many fundamental type III bursts are weak and composed of short, rapidly varying elements whose intensity rises quickly and then decays more slowly at a fixed frequency […]

Solar Radio Wide‐Band Spectroscopy and Imaging Facilities of the Chinese Meridian Project Phase II by Yihua Yan et al.

February 3, 2026

Radioheliographs and wideband solar radio spectrographs are essential components of the Chinese Meridian Project (CMP)‐II (C. Wang et al., 2024) that aims to monitor the whole solar‐terrestrial chain of space weather events, from the lower solar atmosphere to near‐Earth space. This work introduce the CMP‐II radio instruments, including the MUSER‐L/I/H, the super‐wideband spectrographs of Mingantu and Chashan stations covering the wideband range of 30 MHz–15 GHz. The overall design, some […]

Tracing Ion-Scale Turbulence and Energy Cascade Rate from the Solar Corona to 1 au by E. P. Kontar et al.

January 20, 2026

The solar corona and solar wind are turbulent plasma environments where energy transfer from large-scale magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuations to smaller kinetic scales is thought to play a critical role in coronal heating and solar wind acceleration. Despite decades of research, the properties of turbulence at ion scales, where dissipation occurs, remain poorly constrained due to limited observational data. Moreover, the precise mechanisms that heat the corona, and accelerate and heat […]

Signatures of Confined and Eruptive Solar Flares in Microwave Spectra by E. W. Cliver et al.

January 6, 2026

Solar flares are generally divided into two classes: eruptive flares (with associated coronal mass ejections; CMEs, see previous CME nuggets by CESRA) and confined flares that lack CMEs. Because eruptive flares are the principal source of major space weather effects at Earth, relatively little attention was paid to confined flares until the great sunspot group of October 2014, designated NOAA 12192, passed across the solar disk giving rise to 35 […]