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Two Alternative Mechanisms for Very Bright Radio Emission from Flare Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D.B. Melrose
D.B. Melrose*
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
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Abstract

The bright radio emission from flare stars has three characteristic properties: high brightness temperature, high degree of circular polarisation and rapid temporal variations. Two proposed emission mechanisms, electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME) and plasma emission, are compared and contrasted. It is argued that although the important features of the emission can be explained in terms of either ECME or plasma emission, all three favor ECME. However, the escapes of the radiation through the second harmonic absorption layer remains inadequately understood, and as a consequence doubts about the ECME interpretation remain.

Type
Galactic and Stellar
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 254 - 257
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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