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refractive interstellar scintillation

(RISS, refractive scintillation)
(refraction of star light by the ISM)

Refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS) is scintillation (twinkling) of stars due to refraction in the interstellar medium, particularly, discontinuities in the ionization. It has been studied through analysis of pulsar timing.

RISS effects are generally longer-term than diffractive interstellar scintillation (DISS) effects (minutes to hours for DISS versus hours to much longer for RISS), but the time-range of their effects overlap.


(optics,ISM)
Further reading:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1986ApJ...307..564R/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJS..121..483B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...514..249B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999ApJ...514..272B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001ChJAA...1..421W/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08395
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025SCPMA..6839512W/abstract
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/lisasymposiumx/resources/contributions/We1_3_LevinPreston.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1984A%26A...134..390R/abstract

Referenced by pages:
diffractive interstellar scintillation (DISS)
scintillometry
twinkling

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