Equatorial scintillations: A review

A Review of Equatorial Spread F

Equatorial spread F is a spectacular phenomenon in which the equatorial region ionosphere is reshaped after sunset. The plasma instabilities responsible for equatorial spread F are fascinating since they occur on time scales ranging from seconds to hours and length scales from centimeters to tens of kilometers. The plasma irregularities that occur in the F region also influence the performance ...

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Extremely Anisotropic Scintillations

A small number of quasars exhibit interstellar scintillation on time-scales less than an hour; their scintillation patterns are all known to be anisotropic. Here we consider a totally anisotropic model in which the scintillation pattern is effectively one-dimensional. For the persistent rapid scintillators J1819+3845 and PKS1257−326 we show that this model offers a good description of the two-s...

Lévy model for interstellar scintillations.

Observations of radio signals from distant pulsars provide a valuable tool for investigation of interstellar turbulence. The time shapes of the signals are the result of pulse broadening by the fluctuating electron density in the interstellar medium. While the scaling of the shapes with the signal frequency is well understood, the observed anomalous scaling with respect to the pulsar distance h...

Interstellar Scintillations of Polarization of Compact Sources.

We demonstrate that the measurement of fluctuations of polarization due to the Galactic interstellar scintillations may be used to study the structure of the radiation field at compact radio sources. We develop a mathematical formalism and demonstrate it on a simple analytical model in which the scale of the polarization variation through the source is comparable to the source size. The predict...