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This paper offers a new technique of incoherent scattering signal processing. The technique is based on the experimentally observed comb structure of the spectral power of separate realizations. The technique implies determining the…
We present a fitting function to describe the statistics of flux modulations caused by interstellar scintillation. The function models a very general quantity: the cross-correlation of the flux observed from a compact radio source of finite…
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