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Harmonic ratios of inverted-U type III bursts

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The harmonic ratios of a large sample of inverted-U bursts are found to be smaller at the turning frequency than at the starting frequency. Ratios <2.0 are explained by postulating that the lowest fundamental frequencies emitted are prevented from escaping from the corona by an evanescent region between the source and the observer. This concept is used to construct a source model for inverted-U bursts where the density is lower inside a magnetic flux tube than it is outside.

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    R. T. Stewart

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Radiophysics Publication RPP 1799, August, 1974.

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Stewart, R.T. Harmonic ratios of inverted-U type III bursts. Sol Phys 39, 451–458 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00162437

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