Directivity of low frequency solar type III radio bursts
β Scribed by R. J. Fitzenreiter; J. Fainberg; R. B. Bundy
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 443 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0038-0938
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β¦ Synopsis
The occurrence rate of type III solar bursts in the frequency range 4.9 MHz to 30 kHz is analyzed as a function of burst intensity and burst arrival direction. We find that (a) the occurrence rate of bursts falls off with increasing flux, S, according to the power law S -1s, and (b) the distribution of burst arrival directions at each frequency shows a significantly larger number of bursts observed west of the Earth-Sun line than east of it. This western excess in occurrence rate appears to be correlated wi~h the direction of the average interplanetary magnetic field, and is interpreted as beaming of the observed burst radiation along the magnetic field direction.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Storms of type III solar radio bursts observed from 5.4 ot 0.2 MHz consist of a quasi-continuous production of type III events observable for half a solar rotation but persisting in some cases for well over a complete rotation (Fainberg and Stone, 1970). The observed burst drift rates are a function