Radio Emission from Plasma Shocks

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From recent calculations of the efficiency of rf emission from longitudinal plasma oscillations, and from simple considerations of charge separation in collisionless plasma shocks, it is shown that one can predict a quantitative value for the energy of a type II solar radio burst in agreement with observation. Application of the same methods to the solar corona suggests that the radio spectrum of the quiet sun may be nonthermal below 20 Mc, and that the solar wind may generate at earth as much as a megawatt of power at 1 Mc.

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