RADIO PHYSICS AND RADIO ASTRONOMY

Solar bursts with high frequency cut off were observed by the URAN-2 radio telescope (Poltava, Ukraine) on 18 August, 2012 in the frequency range 8-32 MHz. Durations of these bursts changed from 30 to 70 s. It is much longer than that for standard type III bursts. Drift rates are much smaller than those of type III bursts are, though much larger than those for decameter type II bursts. In some cases, the drift rate sign changes from the negative to positive one. Some of these bursts have fine structures. Stripes of the fine structures have small drift rates of 20-40 kHz/s. Polarizations of these bursts made about 10 % that apparently indicates that they are generated at the second harmonic of the local plasma frequency. The connection of bursts with the high frequency cut off with compact ejections from the behind-limb active regions is confirmed.

Key words: Sun, radio emission, decameter wavelengths, “caterpillar” bursts, duration, frequency drift, polarization, plasma mechanism of radio emission

Manuscript submitted 24.11.2014

Radio phys. radio astron. 2015, 20(1): 10-19

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