Electron-cyclotron maser emission in solar microwave spike bursts

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Cyclotron Radiation, Emission Spectra, Masers, Microwave Emission, Solar Radio Bursts, Brightness Temperature, Chromosphere, Electron Diffusion, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability

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The present study examines a new model developed for electron-cyclotron maser emission from flaring loops which incorporates competition between driving of the instability and maser-induced relaxation, together with interactions between small neighboring regions of unstable plasma. This results in a picture in which radiation is emitted in bursts from regions whose length scale is determined self-consistently by previous bursts, while the unstable plasma fluctuates about the point, close to marginal stability, at which driving of the instability is balanced by relaxation due to maser-induced electron diffusion. Under the conditions applicable to flaring loops, time scales of fundamental x-mode (x1) driving and saturation are approximately equal at about 1 ms, resolving a (10,000 - 10 to the 6th)-fold discrepancy in previous models and agreeing with the observed time scales of microwave spike bursts. Saturation effects are found to be especially effective in suppressing amplification of the most strongly growing modes.

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