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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

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

From 2001 January to 2002 June, we monitored PSRs B0329+54, B0823+26, B1929+10, B2020+28 and B2021+51 using the Nanshan 25-m radio telescope of Urumqi Observatory to study their diffractive interstellar scintillation (DISS). The average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , S. Johnston , B. Rickett , J. Zhang , A. Yusup , M. Chen

We present results of the analysis of interstellar scintillation in PSR B0823+26. Observations were conducted at a frequency of 1.7 GHz using the 32-m Torun Centre for Astronomy radio telescope. More than 50 observing sessions, lasting on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-31 M. Daszuta , W. Lewandowski , J. Kijak

We report on observations of PSR B1508+55's scintillation at the Effelsberg 100-m telescope spanning from early 2020 to early 2022. In the autumn of 2020, close to the time the pulsar was predicted to cross echoes in its pulse profile, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-06 Tim Sprenger , Robert Main , Olaf Wucknitz , Geetam Mall , Jason Wu

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 simultaneous Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) observations at 550-750 MHz of the scintillation of PSR B1508+55, resulting in a $\sim$10,000-km baseline. This regime of measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 V. R. Marthi , D. Simard , R. A. Main , U. -L. Pen , M. H. van Kerkwijk , K. Vanderlinde , Y. Gupta , C. Roberts , B. M. Quine

We present the results of flux density monitoring of PSR B0329+54 at the frequency of 4.8 GHz using the 32-meter TCfA radiotelescope. The observations were conducted between 2002 and 2005. The main goal of the project was to find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Wojciech Lewandowski , Jaroslaw Kijak , Yashwant Gupta , Krzysztof Krzeszowski

We report on findings from scintillation analyses using high-cadence observations of eight canonical pulsars with observing baselines ranging from one to three years. We obtain scintillation bandwidth and timescale measurements for all…

We studied the turbulence spectrum of the local interstellar plasma in the direction of PSR J0437-4715, on the basis of our observations and those reported earlier by others. We combine these data to form a structure function for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , V. I. Shishov

We sought to determine the scale of scintillation in the interstellar plasma of PSR J0437-4715. We used the Very Long Baseline Array to obtain scintillation amplitude and phase data, from dynamic spectra at 327 MHz. We observe two scales of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. R. Gwinn , C. Hirano , S. Boldyrev

Scintillation arcs have become a powerful tool for exploring scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. There is accumulating evidence that the scattering from many pulsars is extremely anisotropic resulting in highly elongated, linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Dan R. Stinebring , Barney J. Rickett , Stella Koch Ocker

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

Intensity scintillations of radio pulsars are known to originate from interference between waves scattered by the electron density irregularities of interstellar plasma, often leading to parabolic arcs in the two-dimensional power spectrum…

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…

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

We use the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope to measure scintillation arc properties in six bright canonical pulsars with simultaneous dual frequency coverage. These observations at frequencies from 300 to 750 MHz allowed for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 Jacob E. Turner , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Maura A. McLaughlin , Daniel R. Stinebring

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 use cyclic spectroscopy to perform high frequency-resolution analyses of multi-hour baseband Arecibo observations of the millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21. This technique allows for the examination of scintillation features in far greater…

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
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