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Abstract
Recent investigations of weak interplanetary scintillation have found strong correlation between the scintillation index m and both in-situ and integrated electron density. A similar measure of solar wind columnar turbulence, doppler phase fluctuation, has been shown to be in excellent correspondence with the signal path integration of a specific, well-established mean electron density model — Nr) = Kr-2-3, where N em electron density, K = constant and r= radial distance. It is thus natural to heuristically inquire whether m might not also correlate with the signal path integration of such an electron density model. This article reexamines the power law radial dependence of m for weak interplanetary scintillation data published by various investigators during the last decade. The data are found to be consistent with the signal path integration of a power law electron density model of the form:
Details
- Volume
- 42-50
- Published
- April 15, 1979
- Pages
- 119–123
- File Size
- 421.3 KB