Mathematical Modeling of the Formation of Type IIId Solar Decameter Radio Bursts with Echo Components |
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Authors: | A N Afanasiev |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 126 Lermontov St., Irkutsk, 664033, Russia |
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Abstract: | Using numerical simulation, we investigate the possibility that echo components of type IIId solar decameter bursts can be
produced through refraction of radio emission in a coronal plasma with large-scale regular electron density inhomogeneities.
It is shown that the observed time profiles of radio burst intensity with three or four maxima can be related to the presence
in the middle corona of streamers and a localized regular nonuniformity whose electron density exceeds background electron
density by a factor of more than 3 – 4. The nonuniformity scale in this case is comparable with the optical diameter of the
solar disk. The observed radio burst echo components with delays longer than 3 s are explained by the production of additional
radio emission propagation modes within a “transverse" refraction waveguide arising between the localized electron density
nonuniformity and deeper layers in the corona. As these additional modes are reflected from the streamers, they can reach
the Earth. Calculations of the time profile of radio burst intensity take into consideration the influence of scattering by
turbulent coronal inhomogeneities and of collisional absorption. Comparison of the modeling results with the observational
data shows that the calculated values of some profile parameters differ from the observed values. One of the possible reasons
is that the method used does not take into account the diffraction leakage of radio emission through the large-scale nonuniformity. |
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