Turbulence in Space Plasmas by K. Papadopoulos (auth.), Peter Cargill, Loukas Vlahos (eds.)

By K. Papadopoulos (auth.), Peter Cargill, Loukas Vlahos (eds.)

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Therefore, the scattered signal of a monochromatic wave with frequency ω ωe is received with a spread of frequencies ⌬ω = ki Ve . As a result, a measurement of the frequency spread of the radiation scattered from plasmas provides a diagnostic measurement of their thermal velocity, or equivalently their temperature. Electromagnetic wave scattering was first used in the late 1950s in an attempt to measure the electron density of the ionosphere with a device known as an Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR).

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Since the medium is perfectly homogeneous, the two slabs contain the same number of electrons, and the two signals cancel exactly. This is true for any such pair of plasma slabs. There 30 K. Papadopoulos is no scattered radiation! , Raleigh scattering. However, scattering occurs. How is the paradox resolved? We got ourselves into this apparent dilemma by considering the relative phases of the radiation. Destructive interference gave the null result. The fact that scattering occurs is entirely due to density fluctuations that produce an imbalance in the number of scatterers in the respective slabs.

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