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Steinberg et al. 1986
Steinberg, J.L., Fainberg, J., Meyer-Vernet, N. and Hoang, S. (1986). Broadening and occulation of radio sources by Comet Giacobini-Zinner as observed from ICE. Geophysical Research Letters 13: doi: 10.1029/GL013i004p00407. issn: 0094-8276.

During the encounter of the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) with comet P/Giacobini-Zinner, the radio astronomy experiment observeded occulation and propagation effects on several distant radio sources. The observations of the partial occulation of the galactic radio source between 360 and 1000 kHz show that the 3-dimensional large scale structure of the coma is consistent with the structure determined from in-situ measurements made along the encounter trajectory. In addition, these observations remove a previously existing ambiguity in the position of the galactic source. Between 110 and 360 kHz the Earth source is broadened by scattering by the comet random density inhomogeneities. The amount of broadening indicates that the electron density fluctuations measured in situ by ICE along its trajectory (100% fluctuations with a scale length of 1 to 2 103 km over a path length of 105 km) exist with the same properties in the perpendicular direction.

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