Position and polarization of solar drift pair bursts

The paper presents an analysis of the observations of Type I bursts, Type III bursts, and an underlying continuum made with the Culgoora spectropolarimeter, spectrograph, and radioheliograph during a noise storm of February 17/18, 1979. Several hundred RDP bursts, and about fifty FDPs were observed. The results on the polarization of drift pair bursts confirm the results of Sastry (1972) that the two components of drift pairs are polarized in the same sense. However, the observed significant difference in degree of polarization between the two components of a pair has not been previously reported. Data on RDP positional and frequency characteristics are presented, and existing theories concerning RDPs are reviewed.