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Variable Radio Sources at 843 MHz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D. Campbell-Wilson
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
R. W. Hunstead
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006

Abstract

This paper is a preliminary report on the flux density monitoring of calibration sources used at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope. We show two examples of large amplitude variability at 843 MHz which we attribute to refractive scintillation in the Galactic interstellar medium.

Type
Instruments and Basic Astronomy
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1994

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