“…These processes were used to explain the intensity and polarization spectrum of the slowly varying component in two-component, "core-halo" models incorporating gyroresonance absorption above sunspots and thermal bremsstrahlung in other regions (Zheleznyakov, 1962;Kakinuma and Swarup, 1962;Swarup et al, 1963;Lantos, 1968;Zlotnik, 19 6 8a, b). Although the complete expression for gyroresonant absorption is somewhat complicated (Ginzburg 1961(Ginzburg , 1967Kakinuma and Swarup, 1962;Kriiger, 1979), its basic properties can be inferred from the simplified optical depth formula which holds for quasi-longitudinal propagation with an index of refraction near unity (Zheleznyakov, 1970) 2 2n-2 T vP L H (Vth n +22 n (I + cos_) 2 sin2n-2 ,…”