Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1972
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1972natur.240..549c&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 240, Issue 5383, pp. 549-551 (1972).
Physics
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Scientific paper
THE so-called precursors to PKP consist of a train of arrivals preceding the core phase PKIKP, of small but variable amplitude, and commonly observed in the distance range 125° to 143°. Interpretations of this phenomenon have included dispersion near the boundary of the inner core1,2, diffraction from the PKP caustic3, sharp upward refraction within one or more transition layers surrounding the inner core4-6 and reflexions from small discontinuities at the boundaries of such transition layers7,8. In order to take account of certain unexplained features of the observations, Haddon9 recently advanced the alternative hypothesis that precursors are the result of scattering of PKP waves from irregularities in the vicinity of the core-mantle boundary. We examine the scattering hypothesis in more detail, and present evidence in its favour.
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