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Solar VLBI of compact transient sources

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Very Long Baseline Interferometry offers the only technique for resolving the transient compact sources which, according to an increasing weight of observational and theoretical evidence, occur during solar flares. In this paper we discuss the problems of applying VLBI to observing the Sun, the results obtained so far and how the technique may be effectively employed in future studies of compact emission structures in solar flares.

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  1. Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, K1A OR6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Radio Continua during Solar Flares, held at Duino (Trieste), Italy, 27–31 May, 1985.

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Tapping, K.F. Solar VLBI of compact transient sources. Sol Phys 104, 199–206 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00159963

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