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In a recent paper, we suggested that the density fluctuation spectra arising from power-law (or extended) inflation, which are tilted with respect to the Harrison--Zel'dovich spectrum, may provide an explanation for the excess large scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H Lyth , Andrew A Liddle

Recently completed H-Alpha surveys of large portions of the sky can be used to create maps of the free-free intensity distribution at high Galactic latitude that are independent of the spectral fits to the CMB data. This provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner

We observed the scintillation pattern of nine bright pulsars at 324 MHz and three at 1.68 GHz and analyzed the wavenumber spectrum which is related to electron density variations of the plasma turbulence of the interstellar medium. For all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , E. N. Fadeev , M. V. Popov , N. Ronaghikhameneh , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov

Emission in spectral lines can provide unique information on interstellar turbulence. Doppler shifts due to supersonic motions contain information on turbulent velocity field which is otherwise difficult to measure. However, the problem of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Lazarian

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

When a gravitational wave (GW) from a distant source propagates through the universe, its amplitude and phase change due to gravitational lensing by the inhomogeneous mass distribution. We derive the amplitude and phase fluctuations, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryuichi Takahashi

We will in this paper report on suggestive similarities between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales. The small scale measurements were made in fusion plasmas and compared to predictions from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 N. P. Basse

Current and upcoming wide-field surveys for weak gravitational lensing and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect will generate mass-selected catalogues of dark matter halos with internal or followup photometric redshift information. The angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asantha Cooray , Wayne Hu , Dragan Huterer , Michael Joffre

A strong case has been made that radio waves from sources within about half a degree of the Galactic Center undergo extreme diffractive scattering. However, problems arise when standard (``Kolmogorov'') models of electron density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Goldreich , S. Sridhar

Kolmogorov's three universal similarity hypotheses are extrapolated to describe scalar fields like temperature mixed by turbulence. By the analogous Kolmogorov third hypothesis for scalars, temperature dissipation rates chi averaged over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Carl H. Gibson

We have in earlier work (Basse N P 2005, Phys. Lett. A vol. 340 p. 456) reported on intriguing similarities between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales. In this paper we expand upon our previous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N P Basse

The power spectrum of mass density fluctuations is evaluated from the Mark III and the SFI catalogs of peculiar velocities by a maximum likelihood analysis, using parametric models for the power spectrum and for the errors. The applications…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Idit Zehavi , Avishai Dekel

The power spectrum is obtained for the Kolmogorov stochasticity parameter map for WMAP's cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation temperature datasets. The interest for CMB Kolmogorov map is that it can carry direct information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. L. Kashin , H. G. Khachatryan , A. A. Kocharyan , E. Poghosian , D. Vetrugno , G. Yegorian

We present multi-frequency scatter broadening evolution of 29 pulsars observed with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). We conducted new observations using LOFAR Low Band Antennae (LBA) as well as utilized the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 M. A. Krishnakumar , Yogesh Maan , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

Recent observations of Cepheids in the Virgo cluster have bolstered the evidence that supports a Hubble constant in 70-90 km/s/Mpc range. This evidence, by and large, probes the expansion of the Universe within 100 Mpc. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Xiangdong Shi , Lawrence M. Widrow , L. Jonathan Dursi

We derive limits for wave optics simulations of plane wave propagation in non-Kolmogorov turbulence using the split-step method and thin phase screens. These limits are used to inform two simulation campaigns where the relationship between…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jeremy P. Bos , Stephen Grulke , Jeff Beck

Intriguing parallels between density fluctuation power versus wavenumber on small (mm) and large (Mpc) scales are presented. The comparative study is carried out between fusion plasma measurements and cosmological data. Based on predictions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 N. P. Basse

Using data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey we have measured the spatial power spectrum of the interstellar neutral atomic hydrogen in the fourth Galactic quadrant. This function shows the same power law behavior that has been found…

In the last decade the detection of individual massive dark matter sub-halos has been possible using potential correction formalism in strong gravitational lens imaging. Here we propose a statistical formalism to relate strong gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Saikat Chatterjee , Léon V. E. Koopmans