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The purpose of this note is to examine the suggestion of Fokker (1970) to explain why the second branch of U-bursts is ill-developed and to present an alternate possible explanation which was suggested by an examination of the trajectories derived by him.
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Smith, D.F. On the relative intensity of second branches of U-like solar radio bursts. Sol Phys 13, 444–447 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153562
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