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Application of joint Gaussian statistics to interplanetary scintillation

George C. Valley, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1976 - 
- Vol. 81, Iss: 25, pp 4723-4730
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In this paper, the second and fourth moments of the scattered electromagnetic waves, the inphase and quadratrue variances and the correlation coefficient are calculated in the first Born approximation to illustrate application of the joint Gaussian results to interplanetary radio star scintillations.
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The third and fourth intensity moments are calculated for a stochastic electromagnetic field whose quadrature components obey joint Gaussian statistics. From these moments the skewness and excess coefficients are derived and compared to the expressions for Rice-Nakagami and log normal statistics. The joint Gaussian intensity moments depend on three moments of the scattered electromagnetic waves, the inphase and quadratrue variances and the correlation coefficient; these three moments are calculated in the first Born approximation to illustrate application of the joint Gaussian results to interplanetary radio star scintillations. With this approximation, observations of skewness versus scintillation index are related to combinations of correlation length and spectral index for the solar wind electron number density fluctuations. This weak scattering relationship suggests a number of observational tests of the joint Gaussian hypothesis. (AIP)

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Electromagnetic beam propagation in turbulent media: An update

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Fourth-Moment Analysis for Wave Propagation in the White-Noise Paraxial Regime

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Higher-order skewness and excess coefficients of some probability distributions applicable to optical propagation phenomena

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Tables of Integrals

J Crank
- 01 Jun 1962 - 
TL;DR: In the fourth edition of the book as mentioned in this paper, the section on definite integrals has been considerably enlarged and a section added on integrals essentially of elliptic type, which is the case with the present edition.