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Fluctuations of Polarized Radiation in a Random Magnetoplasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Alexander Kukushkin*
Affiliation:
Ausralia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping NSW 2121 Australia

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This paper analyses fourth-order moments of polarized radiation passing through magnetoactive plasma with random irregularities both in electron density and magnetic field. We consider the new propagation effect arising from chiral properties of random magnetoplasma. That is, the lenses formed by the same irregularities of magnetic field may be characterized by refractive properties of opposite sense vis-a-vis the rotation of wave polarization vector. This produces an appearance of slight circular polarization fluctuations arising from initially nonpolarised radiation. Analysis of the polarized radiation fluctuations may allow the spatial spectrum of magnetic field irregularities to be detected. The enchanced level of circularly polarized component, and the share of fluctuations owing to magnetic field irregularities, can be readily observed at low frequencies only, say in the radiation passing through the solar chromosphere or Jovian and terrestrial ionosphere (magnitosphere).

Type
Imaging Results: Radio and Millimeter Waves
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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