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With this entry Ed Cliver enters the rarefied world of cartoonists with multiple entries selected. In this case it was a no-brainer - Ed had left his favorite phenomenon, the type II burst, out of his previous entry. Here one can see the interplanetary shock front, leading soon to a decimetric-hectometric type II radio burst much in the same way the information content of a German (or Japanese) sentence precedes its verb. Still something missing though! There should be a blast wave running away from the flare; we need this to explain the metric type II burst! Also the cartoon does not show particles coming from the shock front, as I think the paper explains; instead they are shown down within closed field lines, whence they could surely never escape.
February 27, 2007