A possible association of solar type III bursts and white light transients.

The possibility is considered whether type III bursts are in any way related to mass ejections indicated by white-light coronal transients. Forty coronal transients observed from Skylab are used to investigate the possible association with meter-wave type III bursts. It is shown that the time interval 5 to 10 hr prior to the time of a transient observation has at least 2.5 times the number of type III bursts expected and that the peak in the number of type III bursts also occurs in this time interval when the data are divided into various groupings. Positions of type III bursts are found usually to be located within 20 deg of the solar position angle of the corresponding transients.