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The problem of coherence violation in stroboscopic ranging with a high resolution in the range due to mutual phase instability of probing and reference radio signals has been considered. It has been shown that the violation of coherence in stroboscopic ranging systems is equivalent to the action of modulating interface and leads to a decrease in the system sensitivity. Requirements have been formulated for the coherence of reference generators in the stroboscopic processing system. The results of statistical modeling have been presented. It was shown that, in the current state of technology with stability of the frequencies of the reference generators, the achieved coherence is sufficient to probe asteroids with super-resolving signals in the range of up to 70 million kilometers. In this case, the dispersion of the signal in cosmic plasma limits the value of the linear resolution of the asteroid details at this range by the value of ~2.7 m. Comparison with the current radar resolution of asteroids has been considered, which, at the end of 2015, were ~7.5 m in the range of ~7 million kilometers.
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Original Russian Text © V.D. Zakharchenko, I.G. Kovalenko, O.V. Pak, V.Yu. Ryzhkov, 2018, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2018, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 209–217.
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Zakharchenko, V.D., Kovalenko, I.G., Pak, O.V. et al. Fundamental Constraints on the Coherence of Probing Signals in the Problem of Maximizing the Resolution and Range in the Stroboscopic Range of Asteroids. Cosmic Res 56, 190–198 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952518030085
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