Published September 1982 | Version v1
Journal article

Statistical analysis of scintillating radio sources

  • 1. Lebedev Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Description

An expression is derived for the probability distribution of the dispersion in the flux-density fluctuations of scintillating radio sources. Observations of background-source scintillation at 102.5 MHz provide an experimental estimate for this probability distribution. For a power-law differential number--flux-density relation n(S)proportionalS/sup -gamma/, the S-dependence of #betta# must be considered in order to reconcile the theory with the observations

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.)
Journal Volume
26
Journal Issue
5
Series
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.).
Journal Page Range
542-545
ISSN
0038-5301

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
14781617
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; FLUX DENSITY; MHZ RANGE 100-1000; PROBABILITY; RADIATION FLUX; SCINTILLATIONS
Descriptors DEC
FREQUENCY RANGE; MHZ RANGE; VARIATIONS

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Notes
Cover-to-cover translation of Astronomicheskij Zhurnal (USSR).