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The current status of our knowledge on the theory of radio emission from mildly relativistic electrons and its application in the interpretation of solar radio bursts are reviewed. The recent high spatial resolution microwave observations have given important information about the geometry of the emitting region and have helped in the computation of better inhomogeneous models that reproduce qualitatively several observational characteristics of the emission. The limitations of the observations and the theory (particularly the effect of mode coupling on the observed polarisation) are pointed out and the potential of the gyrosynchrotron process as a diagnostic of the physical conditions is discussed. This will help us to obtain quantitative information about the changes of the magnetic field and the acceleration of particles in solar flares.
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Alissandrakis, C.E. Gyrosynchrotron emission of solar flares. Sol Phys 104, 207–221 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00159964
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