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An inverted U burst with equally developed ascending and descending branches observed by the Giant Ukrainian Radio Telescope (GURT) on 18 April 2017 in meter wavelengths band is discussed. This U burst was attributed to the high coronal loop in active region NOAA 12651 above the limb. Under the assumption that, associated with the burst, a coronal loop confines isothermal plasma stratified according to the Boltzmann density relation, geometrical and physical parameters of the loop were estimated. According to our model coronal loops may contain plasma which is up to 20 times denser than the surrounding coronal plasma. In general, the proposed model gives the relation between the plasma temperature and the height of the loop in such a way that under the given parameters of the associated U burst, higher loops contain cooler plasma and vice versa. An alternative method of coronal loop height determination was suggested. Assuming that the observed U burst and the preceding Type III burst were generated by the same exciter, we define the height of the loop from the delay of the former with respect to the latter at a certain frequency. We show that determining the heights of the loops by another independent method, e.g. interferometric or tied-array imaging may reduce the uncertainty of the inside-the-loop plasma temperature determination.
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The research was supported by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine projects Radiotelescope (0120U100234) and Spectr-3 (0117U000245).
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Dorovskyy, V., Melnik, V., Konovalenko, A. et al. Solar Type U Burst Associated with a High Coronal Loop. Sol Phys 296, 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-020-01741-w
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