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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.131101
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Observations of radio signals from distant pulsars provide a valuable tool for investigation of interstellar turbulence. The time shapes of the signals are the result of pulse broadening by the fluctuating electron density in the interstellar medium. While the scaling of the shapes with the signal frequency is well understood, the observed anomalous scaling with respect to the pulsar distance has remained a puzzle for more than 30 years. We propose a new model for interstellar electron density fluctuations, which explains the observed scaling relations. We suggest that these fluctuations obey Levy statistics rather than Gaussian statistics, as assumed in previous treatments of interstellar scintillations.
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