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Polarization Bursts in the Sun observed at Microwave Frequencies

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There are microwave bursts not observable in the total flux from the Sun, but only in circular polarization. The production of these events in the Sun requires equivalent changes of the magnetic field imposed on the emission regions during the bursts.

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  1. Centre of Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil

    PIERRE KAUFMANN, OSCAR T. MATSUURA, A. C. MONTE MASCARO & ARACY M. MENDES

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KAUFMANN, P., MATSUURA, O., MASCARO, A. et al. Polarization Bursts in the Sun observed at Microwave Frequencies. Nature 220, 1298–1300 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201298a0

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