Scintillation

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4580. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth, Earth'S Atmosphere

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Rapid fluctuations in the radiation from stars due to its passage through the atmosphere. The more familiar term for the effect on visible light is `twinkling'. The effect is most marked for a point source of light, such as a star. An extended source (covering a finite area) does not exhibit the effect so appreciably (thus a planet tends to twinkle less obviously than a star). Scintillation is ca...

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