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A review is given of the interplay between studies of compact radio sources and thescattering and scintillations that occur as the signals travel through the irregular refractive index ofthe interstellar and interplanetary plasmas.
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Rickett, B. (2001). Radio Sources and Scintillation. In: Strom, R., Bo, P., Walker, M., Rendong, N. (eds) Sources and Scintillations. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1001-6_1
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