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Issue A&A Volume 380, Number 1, December II 2001 Page(s) 318 - 322 Section The Sun DOI 10.1051/0004-6361:20011121

A&A 380, 318-322 (2001)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20011121

Centimetric type N and type M bursts

M. Wang^{1, 2}, Q. Fu¹, R. Xie¹ and Ch. Duan<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  Yunnan Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650011, PR China
²  National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100012, PR China
    e-mail: wmynao@163.net

(Received 26 September 2000 / Accepted 27 June 2001 )

Abstract
Two special fine structures observed with the 5.2-7.6 GHz high temporal and spectral resolution spectrometer of Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) are described and analyzed in this paper. Because they appear as the letters N and M on dynamic spectra, we call them centimetric type N and type M bursts, respectively. They have very short durations (about 500 ms and 300 ms), small flux densities (tens of SFU), narrow bandwidth (relative bandwidth about 10% ), and very small polarization degree (close to the accuracy limit of observation instruments), but each branch has considerable high frequency drift rates (several GHz/s). We think that they are an extension of metric or decimetric type U(N) bursts in centimetric wavelengths. Type N and type M bursts may be due to the mirroring effect near the foot point, as well as a scattering effect caused by whistler wave turbulence near the top of loop. They may also be interpreted by the quasi-periodic particle injection into coronal loops.

Key words: Sun: activity -- Sun: corona -- Sun: general -- Sun: radio radiation

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