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IT has recently been reported by Dowden1 that, for 10.1-Mc/s radiation from Jupiter, the relative proportion of bursts of opposite sense of polarization appears to vary with the Jovian System III central meridian longitude (λIII). Bursts recorded when λIII was close to 240° (International Astronomical Union revised System III) were found to be almost exclusively elliptical)y polarized in the right-handed sense whereas bursts recorded when λIII was close to 55° were as much as 83 per cent left-handed. The purpose of this communication is to report that a similar tendency was noted at 16 Mc/s for a few events recorded at the Florida State University Radio Observatory in 1962.
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Dowden, R. L., Austral. J. Phys., 16, 398 (1963).
Barrow, C. H., Astrophys. J., 135, 847 (1962).
Douglas, J. N., and Smith, H. J., Astron. J., 68, 163 (1963).
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BARROW, C. Polarization of 16-Mc/s Radiation from Jupiter. Nature 201, 171 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201171a0
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