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The Relevance of Bipolar Type I Storm Structures to the Theory of Mode Coupling in the Solar Corona
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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Bipolar structures are discernible in three categories of solar radio emission: the slowly varying component (S-component), microwave bursts and metre-wavelength type I storms. Piddington and Minnett, discussing the S-component, showed that when coupling between the magneto-ionic modes along the ray path is ignored the emission from a regular dipolar field should have two specific polarization properties. These properties (see Figure 1) are that both feet of the bipolar structure should be similarly polarized, i.e. both left-hand (LH) or both right-hand (RH), and that this handedness should reverse on central meridian passage (CMP). (Reversal of the handedness at CMP had been suggested earlier by Martyn.) These arguments should apply also to microwave bursts and to type I storms.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 208 - 211
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1973
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