On the Theory of Type II and Type III Solar Radio Bursts. I. The Impossibility of Nonthermal Emission due to Combination Scattering Off Thermal Fluctuations

Abstract

Combination scattering as proposed by Ginzburg and Zhelezniakov involves the coalescence of electron plasma waves from a nonthermal distribution with electron plasma waves from the distribution of thermal charge fluctuations. Reabsorption is neglected.