Ionospheric scintillations over the polish LOFAR station PL610

Mariusz Pożoga, Barbara Matyjasiak, Hanna Rothkaehl, Dorota Przepiórka, Marcin Grzesiak and Roman Wronowski

We present here the observations of ionospheric scintillations obtained with the polish station PL610 of the international LOFAR interferometer. A scintillation phenomenon occurs as a result of variations in the refractive index of the medium through which waves are traveling. In particular, the Earth’s ionosphere is a strongly variable medium where high density gradients occur. Scintillation measurements may be successfully used to study the irregular structure of the Earth’s ionosphere.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 7, 94-96 (2018)

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