Propagation and absorption of electron-cyclotron maser radiation during solar flares

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Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989soph..122...53m&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 122, no. 1, 1989, p. 53-89.

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Electron Cyclotron Heating, Masers, Radiation Absorption, Solar Flares, Flare Stars, Microwave Transmission, Plasma Heating

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The propagation and absorption of the maser radiation during solar flares are examined through linear theory and electromagnetic particle simulations. It is shown using linear theory that strong absorption of the radiation should occur as it propagates toward the second harmonic layer, where the magnetic field is half as strong as in the emission region. Only radiation propagating nearly parallel to the magnetic field in a low-temperature plasma may be able to escape under certain limited conditions. Finite temperature effects can cause radiation propagating nearly perpendicular to the magnetic field to refract, causing enhanced absorption. Particle simulations are then used to evaluate the nonlinear response of the plasma as the maser radiation propagates through the absorption layer. It is shown that some of the maser radiation is able to escape through a process of absorption below the second harmonic of the local gyrofrequency and re-emission above it. The fraction able to escape is much higher than that predicted by linear theory, although the amount of escaping energy is only a small fraction of the incident energy.

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