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At 327 MHz, the observed emission of PSR B1937+21 is greatly affected by scattering in the interstellar medium, on a timescale of order the pulse period. We use the bright impulsive giant pulses emitted by the pulsar to measure the impulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-09 Nikhil Mahajan , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

Pulsar scintillation observations have revealed ubiquitous discrete scintillation screens in the interstellar medium. A major obstacle in identifying the nature of these screens is the uncertainty in their distances, which prevents precise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Yuanshang Huang , Xun Shi , Jumei Yao , Weiwei Zhu , Yonghua Xu

Pulsar scintillation allows a glimpse into small-scale plasma structures in the interstellar medium, if we can infer their properties from the scintillation pattern. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry and working in delay-delay rate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Walter Brisken

We present interstellar scintillation velocity measurements for four millisecond pulsars obtained from long-term monitoring observations with the Arecibo radio telescope at 430 MHz. We also derive explicit expressions that relate the…

Results are presented from a long-term astrometry program on PSR B0919+06 using the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array. With ten observations (seven epochs) between 1994--2000, we measure a proper motion of 18.35 +/- 0.06 mas/yr in RA, 86.56 +/-…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio , W. M. Goss , E. B. Fomalont , J. M. Benson

Scintillation of pulsar radio signals caused by the interstellar medium can in principle be used for interstellar interferometry. Changes of the dynamic spectra as a function of pulsar longitude were in the past interpreted as having…

The effect of interplanetary plasma on pulsed pulsar radiation passing through is considered. The pulses of two rotating radio transients (J0609+16, J1132+25) and a pulsar (B0320+39) detected on the Large Phased Array (Pushchino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 S. A. Tyul'bashev , I. V. Chashei , M. A. Kitaeva

We present a timing and scintillation study of the young Galactic halo pulsar PSR J1740+1000 using observations from the Nanshan, FAST, and Parkes radio telescopes. From timing analysis, we measure the pulsar's proper motion for the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 J. M. Yao , F. F. Kou , J. P. Yuan , Y. Wei , William A. Coles , Richard N. Manchester , N. Wang , S. Q. Wang , W. M. Yan

We have observed the relativistic binary pulsar PSR J1141$-$6545 over a period of $\sim$6 years using the Parkes 64 m radio telescope, with a focus on modelling the diffractive intensity scintillations to improve the accuracy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. J. Reardon , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , M. Kerr , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

The parabolic arc phenomenon visible in the Fourier analysis of the scintillation spectra of pulsars provides a new method of investigating the small scale structure in the ionized interstellar medium (ISM). We report archival observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Frank S. Trang , Barney J. Rickett

We propose a new method to detect off-pulse (unpulsed and/or continuous) emission from pulsars, using the intensity modulations associated with interstellar scintillation. Our technique involves obtaining the dynamic spectra, separately for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Kumar Ravi , Avinash A. Deshpande

The double pulsar system PSR~J0737$-$3039A/B has enabled some of the most precise tests of strong-field gravity to date. Here, we present a scintillation analysis of the system based on an 18-month observation campaign with the MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 J. Askew , D. J. Reardon , R. M. Shannon , M. Bailes , F. Camilo , A. Corongiu , M. Kramer , M. E. Lower , A. Parthasarathy , A. Possenti , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

Refraction of pulsar radiation by electron density irregularities in the interstellar medium sometimes produces multiple imaging of pulsars which can lead to periodic oscillations of intensity in pulsar dynamic spectra records. Such events…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yashwant Gupta , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , A. Pramesh Rao

Quasi-continuous observations of PSR B03239+54 over 20 days using the Nanshan 25-m telescope at 1540 MHz have been used to study the effects of refractive scintillation on the pulsar flux density and diffractive scintillation properties.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Wang , Z. Yan , R. N. Manchester , H. X. Wang

Long-term studies of binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide precise tests of strong-field gravity and can be used to measure neutron-star masses. PSR~J1909$-$3744, a binary MSP has been the subject of several pulsar timing analyses. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jacob Askew , Daniel Reardon , Ryan Shannon

The interstellar medium scatters radio waves which causes pulsars to scintillate. For intrinsically short bursts of emission, the observed signal should be a direct measurement of the impulse response function. We show that this is indeed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Robert Main , Marten van Kerkwijk , Ue-Li Pen , Nikhil Mahajan , Keith Vanderlinde

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. In more than one-third of B1919+21's single pulses, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Kejia Lee , Jiguang Lu , Lucy S. Oswald , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

Annual variations of interstellar scintillation can be modelled to constrain parameters of the ionized interstellar medium. If a pulsar is in a binary system, then investigating the orbital parameters is possible through analysis of the…

PSR B1259-63 is in a highly eccentric 3.4 yr orbit around the Be-star SS2883. The system is located in the direction of the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm at a distance of $\sim$1.5 kpc. We have made scintillation observations of the pulsar…