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A new survey of the galactic plane for sources with size less than 1 arc s at 327 MHz shows that towards the inner parts of the galaxy for galactic latitudes less than 5°, interstellar scattering is much larger than expected from data at higher latitudes. The enhanced scattering varies both with galactic latitude and longitude. A two-component model for the distribution of scattering matter in the Galaxy is proposed to interpret the observations.
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Rao, A., Ananthakrishnan, S. Interstellar scattering in the inner parts of the Galaxy. Nature 312, 707–711 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/312707a0
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