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Analysis of a CME-driven shock with White Light and Ultraviolet data Roberto Susino in collaboration with A. Bemporad rd 3 METIS Science and Technical Meeting, Napoli (IT) 2013 October 16 Introduction LASCO C2 Shock Driver from Bemporad Mancuso 2010 Fast CMEs drive shocks that are mainly observed in WL coronagraphic images ahead of the CME front. Shocks accelerate SEPs and electron beams (~ 10 keV) and are able to generate plasma waves at the local plasma frequency that scatter off ions or combine to produce type II radio emission Shock heating is detected as broad wings mainly in the non neutral ions. In UV the presence of a shock front is more likely detected in the brightest spectral lines such as the O VI doublet and the H I Lyman-α line Shocks are reported for several CMEs: e.g., Raymond et al. 2000; Mancuso et al. 2002; Raouafi et al. 2004; Ciaravella et al. 2005; Mancuso Avetta 2008; Mancuso 2011; but in only one case a complete determination of plasma pre- and post-shock physical parameters was made so far (Bemporad Mancuso, 2010) Diagnostics from WL and UV data 1. Diagnostics from WL data • Electron density, from inversion of pB data, provided an assumption on the shock geometry (LOS depth) • Compression ratio, i.e. ratio between downstream (post-shock) and upstream (pre-shock) electron density, and alfvénic Mach number • Shock fron