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The Theory of Solar Radio Bursts: Can it be understood by the Non-Expert?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. B. Melrose
D. B. Melrose*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
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The theory of solar radio bursts remains a mystery to most astronomers and astrophysicists. The reasons for this are not hard to identify. First, the solar radioastronomical data are unfamiliar. (The observational data on solar radio bursts is being reviewed separately at this meeting (McLean 1981).) The important features of this data involve frequency-time structures in dynamic spectra, and such features are absent in data on galactic and extra galactic objects. Even for pulsars the data are obtained at discrete frequencies, and the frequency-time structures are not of major importance. Second, the theory itself involves plasma physical concepts which are unfamiliar to most physicists and astronomers. These concepts include those of plasma instabilities, microturbulence, and of particle-wave and wave-wave interactions. Third, one must also admit that there is a prejudice amongst many astronomers against solar physics: the Sun is regarded as interesting only to the extent that it can teach us about other astronomical objects. I shall return to this third point later.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , 1981 , pp. 139 - 144
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1981

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