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The possibility of measuring magnetic fields of solar active regions at coronal heights up to 1010 cm by observing the inversion of circular polarization of local sources at microwaves is demonstrated. The observations by the radiotelescope RATAN-600 were accomplished with the angular resolution 17″–34″ in the wavelength range 2–4 cm. It is found that the inversion of polarization occured within a core of local source situated above the largest sunspot of Mc Math 14822. The inversion was followed during the period of June 30–July 3, 1977. The measured coronal magnetic field of ≈16 G is found to be at the height ≈12 × 109 cm. This measured field proves to agree with a simulated potential structure of Mc Math 14822 coronal magnetic field. Our analysis of the inversion has been based on the theory of interaction (coupling) of the ordinary and extraordinary wave modes in the region of quasi-transverse propagation.
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Gelfreikh, G.B., Peterova, N.G. & Ryabov, B.I. Measurements of magnetic fields in solar corona as based on the radio observations of the inversion of polarization of local sources at microwaves. Sol Phys 108, 89–97 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152079
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