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Radio Observations of the Gum Nebula below 20 MHz
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
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Low frequency radio waves propagating in the interstellar medium are attenuated through absorption by thermal electrons, the optical depth being given by
where f is the radio frequency in MHz, the emission measure in cm-6 pc, and Te the electron temperature.
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , October 1972 , pp. 158 - 159
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