Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Imaging spectroscopy of solar radio burst fine structures

  • E. P. Kontar,
  • S. Yu,
  • A. A. Kuznetsov,
  • A. G. Emslie,
  • B. Alcock,
  • N. L. S. Jeffrey,
  • V. N. Melnik,
  • N. H. Bian,
  • P. Subramanian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01307-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Radio observations of the solar atmosphere provide a unique view on the non-thermal processes in the outer atmosphere. Here the authors use LOFAR observations to demonstrate that the observed radio burst characteristics are dominated by propagation effects rather than underlying emission variations.