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Radio occultation probing of the turbulent circumsolar plasma by pulsar pulses at small elongations

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The possibility of using the occultation of a pulsar by the solar corona for diagnostics of the magnitude of coronal electron-density inhomogeneities is analyzed. Coronal probing at small elongations is considered, when a ground-based receiver can be in the vicinity of the caustic surface due to the regular refraction of the pulsar radio emission in the circumsolar plasma.

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Original Russian Text © A.N. Afanaslev, 2006, published in Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 83, No. 9, pp. 853–864.

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Afanas’ev, A.N. Radio occultation probing of the turbulent circumsolar plasma by pulsar pulses at small elongations. Astron. Rep. 50, 762–772 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772906090095

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