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Plasma Oscillations and the Emissivity of Type III Radio Bursts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Abstract
Plasma wave electric field measurements with the solar orbiting Helios spacecraft have shown that intense electron plasma oscillations occur in association with type III solar radio bursts, thereby confirming a well known mechanism for generating solar radio emissions first proposed by Ginzburg and Zheleznyakov in 1958. In this paper we review the principal characteristics of these plasma oscillations and compare the observed plasma oscillation intensities with recent measurements of the emissivity of type III radio bursts. The observed emissivities are shown to be in good agreement with two current models for the conversion of electrostatic plasma oscillations to electromagnetic radiation.
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- Session VI - Solar Bursts - Decimeter and Low Frequency Observations
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 86: Radio Physics of the Sun , 1980 , pp. 369 - 379
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- Copyright © Reidel 1980
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