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The scintillation of pulsars reveals small-scale structure of the interstellar medium. A powerful technique for characterizing the scintillating structures (screens) combines analysis of scintillation arcs and very long baseline…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Ashley M. Stock , Fardin Syed , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Rebecca Lin , Franz Kirsten , Ue-Li Pen

The distribution of scattering delay times is analyzed for classical electrons which are transmitted through a finite waveguide. For non-zero magnetic field the distribution shows a regular pattern of maxima (logarithmic singularities).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Manamohan Prusty , Holger Schanz

Despite some success in explaining the observed polarisation angle swing of radio pulsars within the geometric rotating vector model, many deviations from the expected S-like swing are observed. In this paper we provide a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou

In this work we study the wave scattering by small dispersionless particles with pulsating refractive index. The scattered fields and their resonance frequencies are calculated by using scalar approximation and exponentially time-dependent…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-12 V. V. Prosentsov

It was recently suggested by Boldyrev & Gwinn that the characteristics of radio scintillations from distant pulsars are best understood if the interstellar electron-density fluctuations that cause the time broadening of the radio pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Stanislav Boldyrev , Arieh Konigl

We present the results of PSR$\pi$, a large astrometric project targeting radio pulsars using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). From our astrometric database of 60 pulsars, we have obtained parallax-based distance measurements for all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 A. T. Deller , W. M. Goss , W. F. Brisken , S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes , G. H. Janssen , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. J. W. Lazio , L. Petrov , B. W. Stappers , A. Lyne

We study the effect of pulsar rotation on timing of binary pulsars, with particular emphasis on the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Special relativistic aberration due to the orbital motion of pulsar changes both the longitude and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman R. Rafikov , Dong Lai

We report the discovery and timing of two pulsars from a sample of four circularly polarized sources identified in radio continuum images taken as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , David L. Kaplan , Emil Lenc , Akash Anumarlapudi , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Ziteng Wang , Laura Driessen , Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy

Observations of pulsars across the radio spectrum are revealing a dependence of the characteristic scattering time ($\tau$) on frequency, which is more complex than the simple power law with a theoretically predicted power law index. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-04 Marisa Geyer , Aris Karastergiou

Gaskell et al. (2007) introduced polarization reverberation mapping as a new technique to explore the structure of active galactic nuclei. We present modeling results for the time-dependent polarization signal expected from scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-06 R. W. Goosmann , C. M. Gaskell , M. Shoji

The interstellar medium hosts a population of scattering screens, most of unknown origin. Scintillation studies of pulsars provides a sensitive tool for resolving these scattering screens and a means of measuring their properties. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 James W. McKee , Hengrui Zhu , Daniel R. Stinebring , James M. Cordes

Pulsar timing offers an independent avenue to test general relativity and alternative gravity theories. This requires an understanding of how metric polarizations beyond the familiar transverse tensor ones imprint as a stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

The diffraction of ultrashort pulse changes its spatial and temporal structure that is crucial for multi-channel communication and location via such pulses. The features of the evolution of broadband pulses discussed for two general…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-23 P. A. Golovinski , V. A. Astapenko

The scattering of free particles constrained to move on a cylindrically symmetric curved surface is studied. The nontrivial geometry of the space contributes to the scattering cross section through the kinetic as well as a possible scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Ali Mostafazadeh

In this work we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The 2D power spectrum of scintillation, called the…

The direct detection of gravitational waves crowns decades of efforts in the modelling of sources and of increasing detectors' sensitivity. With future third-generation Earth-based detectors or space-based observatories, gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Lorenzo Annulli , Laura Bernard , Diego Blas , Vitor Cardoso

Context. The spatially coherent multipath propagation of pulsar radiation leads to a temporal and spectral interference patterns called scintillation. It is caused by density variations in the ionized interstellar medium, which often take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Tim Sprenger , Xun Shi , Olaf Wucknitz , Robert A. Main

We report on the substructure of visibility functions in the delay domain of PSRs B0329+54, B0823+26, B0834+06, B1933+16 and B0833-45 (Vela) observed with earth-earth and RadioAstron space-earth two-element interferometers at frequencies of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 M. V. Popov , N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , C. R. Gwinn , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov

In this paper we develop a method capable of modeling the space-time focusing of nondiffracting pulses. The new pulses can possess arbitrary peak velocities and, in addition to being resistant to diffraction, can have their peak intensities…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-19 Michel Zamboni-Rached , Ioannis M. Besieris