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Solar microwave burst observations (made with the WSRT) with high time and high spatial resolution show large-scale (> 8000 km) short-period (1.5 s) modulations of the source. It is argued that an interpretation in terms of Alfvén oscillations in the microwave source is ruled out by this observation. Instead it must be the source of the fast electrons, that produce the microwaves, that is oscillating. The fluctuating acceleration region is identified with a volume where a sheared field is compressed against a flux tube by an unstable current. MHD oscillations in the overlying fluxtube are caused by the pushing force. The rapidly expanding current plays a major role in the flare theory of van Tend and Kuperus (1978).
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Kattenberg, A., Kuperus, M. Spatially coherent oscillations in microwave bursts. Sol Phys 85, 185–190 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148267
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