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Radio Sources and Scintillation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Barney Rickett
Barney Rickett*
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego, USA

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A review is given of the interplay between studies of compact radio sources and the scattering and scintillations that occur as the signals travel through the irregular refractive index of the interstellar and interplanetary plasmas.

Keywords

scatteringscintillationAGNpulsar

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Type
Chapter One Introduction to Interstellar Scintillation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 182: Sources and Scintillations: Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy , 2001 , pp. 5 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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