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THE remarkable investigations of Reber1, South worth2 and Appleton3 have shown that radio-waves in the metre and centimetre region are emitted by the galaxy and the sun. Henyey's and Keenan's theory of long-wave emission by the galaxy4 is based on the assumption that the mechanism of this emission is a free-free emission from interstellar gas. However, they have not correctly accounted for the absorption of radio-waves in the galaxy. Besides free-free absorption (which Henyey and Keenan took into account), there is an ordinary absorption of radio-waves because of damping oscillations of electrons in the field of radio-waves. The coefficient of absorption is given by
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SHKLOVSKY, J. EMISSION OF RADIO-WAVES BY THE GALAXY AND THE SUN. Nature 159, 752–753 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159752a0
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