Abstract
A new mechanism has been proposed for the continuum and burst components of solar storm radiation by Genkin, Erukhimov, and Levin (1989a, b). In this paper, we point out that while bursts can be explained by the proposed mechanism of scattering on plasma turbulence generated density fluctuations, the continuum cannot be explained by sattering on thermal ion density fluctuations. The reason is, under the same coronal conditions, second harmonic emissions will dominate over the fundamental emission due to scattering on thermal ion density fluctuations in contradiction to observations. We also note that the range of plasma wave densities needed for this mechanism may not be realistic for the case of plasma wave generation due to loss cone instability. It is further argued that coalescence of plasma waves with low-frequency waves still seems to be the plausible mechanism.
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