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We report detections of scintillation arcs for pulsars in globular clusters M5, M13 and M15 for the first time using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). From observations of these arcs at multiple epochs, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Dandan Zhang , Zhenzhao Tao , Mao Yuan , Jumei Yao , Pei Wang , Qijun Zhi , Weiwei Zhu , Xun Shi , Michael Kramer , Di Li , Lei Zhang , Guangxing Li

We present the detection of 107 pulsars with interstellar scintillation arcs at 856--1712\,MHz, observed with the MeerKAT Thousand Pulsar Array Programme. Scintillation arcs appear to be ubiquitous in clean, high S/N observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 R. A. Main , A. Parthasarathy , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , A. Basu , A. D. Cameron , M. J. Keith , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , D. J. Reardon , X. Song , P. Weltevrede

Context: By providing information about the location of scattering material along the line of sight (LoS) to pulsars, scintillation arcs are a powerful tool for exploring the distribution of ionized material in the interstellar medium.…

Temporal scatter-broadening can seriously affect our ability to find pulsars orbiting the central mass in our Galaxy. Many of these invaluable probes of geometry around the black hole are expected, but none have been found in close orbits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-20 Olaf Wucknitz

We report multifrequency measurements of scatter broadening times for nine highly dispersed pulsars over a wide frequency range (0.6 -- 4.9 GHz). We find the scatter broadening times to be larger than expected and to scale with frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Loehmer , M. Kramer , D. Mitra , D. R. Lorimer , A. G. Lyne

The observing signals from pulsar are always influenced by the interstellar medium (ISM) scattering. In the lower frequency observation, the intensity profiles are broadened and the plane of polarization angle (PPA) curves are flattened by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Abdujappar Rusul , Ali Esamdin , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Jian-Ping Yuan

This paper considers scattering screens that have arbitrary spatial variations of scattering strength transverse to the line of sight, including screens that are spatially well confined, such as disks and filaments. We calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio

Interstellar scintillation analysis of pulsars allows us to probe the small-scale distribution and inhomogeneities of the ionized interstellar medium. Our priority is to present the data set and the basic measurements of scintillation…

This paper describes a comprehensive measurement model for the error budget of pulse arrival times with emphasis on intrinsic pulse jitterand plasma propagation effects (particularly interstellar scattering), which are stochastic in time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-20 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

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

Traditional pulsar timing techniques involve averaging large numbers of single pulses to obtain a high signal-to-noise (S/N) profile, which is matched to a template to measure a time of arrival (TOA). However, the morphology of individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella , Michael T. Lam , Maura A. McLaughlin

We present scattering from many body systems in a new light. In place of the usual van Hove treatment, (applicable to a wide range of scattering processes using both photons and massive particles) based on plane waves, we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Gaehler , J. Felber , F. Mezei , R. Golub

Weak interstellar scintillations of pulsar B0809+74 were observed at two epochs using a 30m EISCAT antenna at 933 MHz. These have been used to constrain the spectrum, the distribution and the transverse velocity of the scattering plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Barney Rickett , Bill Coles , Jussi Markkanen

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

We simulate scattering delays from the interstellar medium to examine the effectiveness of three estimators in recovering these delays in pulsar timing data. Two of these estimators use the more traditional process of fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Jacob E. Turner , Daniel R. Stinebring , Maura A. McLaughlin , Anne M. Archibald , Timothy Dolch , Ryan S. Lynch

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…

In this paper we report multi-frequency measurements of pulse broadening times (tau_d) for nine medium dispersion measure (DM $\approx 150-400$ pc cm$^{-3}$) pulsars observed over a wide frequency range. The low frequency data at 243, 325…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Loehmer , D. Mitra , Y. Gupta , M. Kramer , A. Ahuja

The high sensitivity and wide frequency coverage of the Murchison Widefield Array allow for the measurement of the spectral scaling of the pulsar scattering timescale, $\alpha$, from a single observation. Here we present three case studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 F. Kirsten , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , J. -P. Macquart , S. E. Tremblay , S. M. Ord

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…

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