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Aims. We explore frequency-dependent changes in pulsar radio emission by analyzing their profile widths and emission heights, assessing whether the simple radius-to-frequency mapping (RFM) or the fan beam model can describe the data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 P. Jaroenjittichai , S. Johnston , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

We analyze the frequency dependence of the dispersion measure (DM), the column density of free electrons to a pulsar, caused by multipath scattering from small scale electron-density fluctuations. The DM is slightly different along each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon , D. R. Stinebring

Pulsar dynamic spectra exhibit high visibility fringes arising from interference between scattered radio waves. These fringes may be random or highly ordered patterns, depending on the nature of the scattering or refraction. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Walker , Dan Stinebring

Using data from the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg telescope, we study the scintillation parameters of the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200 over a 7 year timespan. The "secondary spectrum" -- the 2D power spectrum…

Light travel time changes due to gravitational waves may be detected within the next decade through precision timing of millisecond pulsars. Removal of frequency-dependent interstellar medium (ISM) delays due to dispersion and scattering is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Nipuni Palliyaguru , Daniel Stinebring , Maura McLaughlin , Paul Demorest , Glenn Jones

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

To obtain the most accurate pulse arrival times from radio pulsars, it is necessary to correct or mitigate the effects of the propagation of radio waves through the warm and ionised interstellar medium. We examine both the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. M. Shannon , J. M. Cordes

We give a new numerical model of pulsar pulse radiation through the interstellar medium (ISM) considering the propagation effects. It explains the deficit of a scattering measure at the decameter range of frequencies that leads to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. A. Seredkina , A. I. Shevtsova

Broadband radio waves emitted from pulsars are distorted and delayed as they propagate toward the Earth due to interactions with the free electrons that compose the interstellar medium, with lower radio frequencies being more impacted than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Olivia Young , Michael Lam

We present a mathematical analysis of propagation-induced distortions in the spectro-temporal properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). Within the Triggered Relativistic Dynamical Model, we derive a centroid-based formulation of the sub-burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Aishwarya Kumar , Fereshteh Rajabi , Martin Houde

In our previous paper (Popov et al. (2016)) we investigated properties of the ionized interstellar medium in the direction of three distant pulsars: B1641-45, B1749-28, and B1933+16. We found that uniformly distributed scattering material…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 E. N. Fadeev

We apply a theory of wave propagation through a turbulent medium to the scattering of radio waves in pulsar magnetospheres. We find that under conditions of strong density modulation the effects of magnetospheric scintillations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Anuj Parikh

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microseconds on five-year time scales, far in excess of signals of…

The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

The dynamic and secondary spectra of many pulsars show evidence for long-lived, aligned images of the pulsar that are stationary on a thin scattering sheet. One explanation for this phenomenon considers the effects of wave crests along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen

Time variable delays due to radio wave propagation in the ionized interstellar medium are a substantial source of error in pulsar timing array efforts. We describe the physical origin of these effects, discussing dispersive and scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dan Stinebring

We present our results of pulse broadening time estimates and the study of the frequency scaling of this quantity for 60 pulsars based on actual multi-frequency scattering estimates. This research was based on our own measurements,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Wojciech Lewandowski , Magdalena Kowalinska , Jaroslaw Kijak

The turbulent nature of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) causes dispersion measure (DM) and scattering variations in pulsar timing measurements. To improve precision of gravitational wave measurements, pulsar timing array (PTA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-06 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles

We describe how the observed polarization properties of an astronomical object are related to its intrinsic polarization properties and the finite temporal and spectral resolutions of the observing device. Moreover, we discuss the effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Paz Beniamini , Pawan Kumar , Ramesh Narayan