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Title: Statistics of refractive pulsar scintillation - Effect of limited data length
Authors: Deshpande, A.A.
Nityananda, R.
Keywords: Pulsars
Pulse duration
Refractivity
Scintillation
Electron density (Concentrtion)
Interstellar matter
Power spectra
Time functions
Issue Date: May-1990
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Citation: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1990, Vol.231, p199-201
Abstract: The dependence of the apparent modulation in the observed intensities of pulsars and extragalactic sources on the observing time/refractive time ratio is investigated using a direct simulation. As expected, the apparent modulation is found to decrease with the observing time/refractive time ratio. The calculations allow for the variance in the estimate and for the effect of using the sample mean rather than the true mean. The correction of the apparent modulation index is suggested in order to obtain a more meaningful estimate of the strength of modulation.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1608
ISSN: 0004-6361
Alternative Location: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1990A&A...231..199D
Copyright: (1990) by the European Southern Observatory. Scanned images provided by the NASA ADS.
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