Abstract
In the preceding chapters we have studied a number of ways high-frequency, transverse electromagnetic waves — generally called radiation for short — are produced in coronal plasmas. How the wave energy builds up in the source and propagates to the observer also requires scrutiny. Most of the necessary elements have already been developed in previous chapters. In particular, the dispersion relation of electromagnetic waves has been discussed in Chapter 4. The concepts of wave intensity and wave temperature have been introduced in Sections 5.1.1 and 6.3.2, respectively.
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General treatises including anisotropic refraction
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Propagation in a fibrous medium
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Benz, A. (1993). Propagation of Radiation. In: Plasma Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 184. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2064-7_11
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