Abstract

It is well known that at the microwaves there is an enhanced brightness temperature of the Sun in the plage-associated active regions. It is generally agreed that this is due to a slightly enhanced electron density in the solar corona above plages. Here we present the results of the observations of a plage region with a filament. These observations were carried out in September-October, 1996, at 2-20cm wavelengths with the radio telescope RATAN-600 and at 1.7cm with the Nobeyama Radio Heliograph. At the shortest wavelengths it was observed the filament only as a dark formation. On the longer wavelengths on the both sides of the filament two sources with the enhanced radio brightness appear with the increase of the brightness temperature as lambda^3 suggesting that the character of this emission is non-thermal. The observed radio brightness distributions were modelled as a combined action of bremsstrahlung and non-thermal gyrosynchrotron radio emission of a large coronal magnetic loop. Considerable stability of the phenomenon (more then two solar rotations) indicate that there are the non-thermal processes continuously acting in the solar corona in the period of deep minimum of solar activity.