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THERE has been much speculation in recent years concerning the height of the irregularities in the Earth's ionosphere which are responsible for the scintillations in the signals received from discrete sources of cosmic radio emission. Hewish1 concluded that the irregularities are at a height of about 400 km., whereas Booker2 has recently suggested that they are substantially lower—between the E and F regions; other authors have found correlation between scintillation activity and the occurrence of spread-F and sporadic-E conditions.
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Hewish, A., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 214, 494 (1952).
Booker, H. G., Proc. Inst. Radio Eng., 46, 298 (1958).
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SLEE, O. Radio Scintillations of Satellite 1958α. Nature 181, 1610–1612 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811610b0
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