The Growth of Circularly Polarized Waves in the Sun's Atmosphere and Their Escape into Space

Abstract

The theory, previously published, of plane waves in an ionized medium pervaded by static electric and magnetic fields is shown to predict wave amplification, and consequent electromagnetic noise, in certain frequency bands. It is then developed in detail for the case in which the static fields are both parallel to the direction of wave propagation and the perturbations are transverse to this direction.