Interplanetary Scintillation Power Spectra

Abstract

Power spectrum measurements of interplanetary scintillation at 408 MHz show that an inverse power law spectrum provides the best description for all scintillating radio sources. The inverse power law index is reasonably constant at ~ 2·4 for solar elongation angles 8 > 10°, and this agrees well with spacecraft observations. For 8 < 10° the index apparently decreases with decreasing 8, and this appears to be consistent with recent strong scattering theory. A Bessel analysis attempted in order to detect Fresnel structure proved unsuccessful because of noise on the power spectra.