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Pulsar timing array projects are carrying out high precision observations of millisecond pulsars with the aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~ 10^{-9} to 10^{-8} Hz) gravitational waves. We show how unambiguous detections of such waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 George Hobbs

Around 10% of bright low-frequency radio sources observed with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) show strong Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) on timescales of a few seconds, implying that almost all their low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Elaine M. Sadler , Rajan Chhetri , John Morgan , Elizabeth K. Mahony , Thomas H. Jarrett , Steven Tingay

The use of a high precision pulsar timing array is a promising approach to detecting gravitational waves in the very low frequency regime ($10^{-6} -10^{-9}$ Hz) that is complementary to the ground-based efforts (e.g., LIGO, Virgo) at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Fredrick A. Jenet

We describe the parameters of a low-frequency all-sky survey of compact radio sources using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS), undertaken with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). While this survey gives important complementary information…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 J. S. Morgan , J-P. Macquart , R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , S. J. Tingay , E. M. Sadler

We derive the distribution of flux density of a compact source exhibiting strong diffractive scintillation. Our treatment accounts for arbitrary spectral averaging, spatially-extended source emission, and the possibility of intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-09 Michael D. Johnson , Carl R. Gwinn

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

Pulsars with periods more than 0.4 seconds in the declination range -9o < decj < 42o and in the right ascension range 0h < r.a.< 24h were searched in parallel with the program of interplanetary scintillations monitoring of a large number of…

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) over years to decades is a promising technique for direct detection of gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. Time-variable, multi-path scattering in the interstellar medium is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anne M. Archibald , Vladislav I. Kondratiev , Jason W. T. Hessels , Daniel R. Stinebring

Recently, there have been reports of six bright, dispersed bursts of coherent radio emission found in pulsar surveys with the Parkes Multi-beam Receiver. Not much is known about the progenitors of these bursts, but they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-10 T. E. Hassall , E. F. Keane , R. P. Fender

Pulsar Timing Arrays use a set of millisecond pulsars in an attempt to directly detect nanohertz gravitational waves. For this purpose, high precision timing of the pulsars is essential and ultimately a precision of the order of ~100 ns is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lina Levin

The interstellar scintillation observed in radio pulsars arises from interference between electromagnetic waves scattered by electron density fluctuations in the turbulent interstellar plasma, providing a critical tool for probing the…

We present the first large sample of scintillation arcs in millisecond pulsars, analysing 12 sources observed with the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg 100\,m telescope. We estimate the delays from multipath…

We have detected a strong deflection of radio waves from the pulsar PSR B0834+06 in scintillation observations. Interference between the undeflected pulsar image and deflected subimages allows single dish interferometry of the interstellar…

Observations over the last two decades have shown that a significant fraction of all flat-spectrum, extragalactic radio sources exhibit flux density variations on timescales of a day or less at frequencies of several GHz. It has been…

Observations of pulsar scintillation are among the few astrophysical probes of very small-scale ($\lesssim$ au) phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, characterization of scintillation arcs, including their curvature and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. R. Stinebring , T. Dolch , V. Pelgrims , J. W. McKee , C. Giannakopoulos , D. J. Reardon

Traditional pulsar surveys have primarily employed time-domain periodicity searches. However, these methods are susceptible to effects like scattering, eclipses and orbital motion. At lower radio frequencies (<= 300 MHz), factors such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 S. Sett , M. Sokolowski , E. Lenc , N. D. R. Bhat

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars typically observed as pulses emitted at radio wavelengths. These pulsations exhibit a rotational stability that rival the best atomic clocks, making pulsars one of the most important tools for resolving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Emmanuel Fonseca

Analysis of high-precision timing observations of an array of approx. 20 millisecond pulsars (a so-called "timing array") may ultimately result in the detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave background. The feasibility of such a…

High-sensitivity radio-frequency observations of millisecond pulsars usually show stochastic, broadband, pulse-shape variations intrinsic to the pulsar emission process. These variations induce jitter noise in pulsar timing observations;…