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Solar Radio Pulsations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

B. L. Gotwols*
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., U.S.A.

Abstract

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(Solar Phys.). Several models for pulsating type IV radio bursts are presented based on the assumption that the pulsations are the result of fluctuations in the synchrotron emission due to small variations in the magnetic field of the source. It is shown that a source that is optically thick at low frequencies due to synchrotron self absorption exhibits pulsations that occur in two bands situated on either side of the spectral peak. The pulsations in the two bands are 180° out of phase and the band of pulsations at the higher frequencies is the more intense. In contrast, a synchrotron source that is optically thin at all frequencies and whose low frequency emission is suppressed due to the Razin effect develops only a single band of pulsations around the frequency of maximum emission. However, the flux density associated with the later model would be too small to explain the more intense pulsations that have been observed unless the source area is considerably larger than presently seems reasonable.

Type
Part IV Acceleration, Containement and Emission of High-Energy Flare Particles
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974