STOCHASTIC-GROWTH THEORY OF LANGMUIR GROWTH-RATE FLUCTUATIONS IN TYPE-III SOLAR RADIO-SOURCES

Fluctuations in type III beams are produced by quasilinear interactions with clumpy Langmuir waves in type III radio sources. The properties of these fluctuations are estimated and shown to yield Langmuir growth rates and growth-rate fluctuations consistent with those required by the recent stochastic-growth theory of type III radio bursts, with observations, and with existing theoretical constraints. This strengthens the basis of stochastic-growth theory and provides an essential consistency test for this model.