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Measuring the Hubble constant (H$_0$) is one of the most important missions in astronomy. Nevertheless, recent studies exhibit differences between the employed methods. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are coherent radio transients with large…

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Many modern theories predict that the fundamental constants depend on time, position, or the local density of matter. We develop a spectroscopic method for pulsed beams of cold molecules, and use it to measure the frequencies of microwave…

Our understanding of the universe relies mostly on electromagnetism. As photons are the messengers, fundamental physics is concerned in testing their properties. Photon mass upper limits have been earlier set through pulsar observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Mark J. Bentum , Luca Bonetti , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

We present the pulse arrival times and high-precision dispersion measure estimates for 14 millisecond pulsars observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz and 1260-1460 MHz frequency bands using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

The next generation of ultralight dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments, which could confirm sub-eV bosons as the dominant source of DM, will feature multiple detectors operating at various terrestrial locations. As a result of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Joshua W. Foster , Yonatan Kahn , Rachel Nguyen , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

Conventional techniques that measure rapid time variations are inefficient or inadequate to discover and observe rapidly pulsating astronomical sources. It is therefore conceivable that there exist some classes of objects pulsating with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ermanno F Borra

We report here on the timing of 597 pulsars over the last four years with the MeerKAT telescope. We provide Times-of-Arrival, pulsar ephemeris files and per-epoch measurements of the flux density, dispersion measure (DM) and rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , P. Weltevrede , M. E. Lower , A. Basu , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , A. Parthasarathy , A. D. Cameron , M. Serylak , S. Buchner

A comparative analysis of the observational characteristics of fast radio bursts at the frequencies 111 and 1400 MHz is carried out. The distributions of radio bursts by the dispersion measure are constructed. At both frequencies, they are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-27 V. A. Fedorova , A. E. Rodin

Propagating slow magneto-acoustic waves are often observed in polar plumes and active region fan loops. The observed periodicities of these waves range from a few minutes to few tens of minutes and their amplitudes were found to decay…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 S. Krishna Prasad , D. Banerjee , T. Van Doorsselaere

Aims: The enigma of the missing baryons poses a prominent and unresolved problem in astronomy. Dispersion measures (DM) serve as a distinctive observable of fast radio bursts (FRBs). They quantify the electron column density along each line…

Recent radio surveys have revealed pulsars with dispersion and scattering delays induced by ionized gas that are larger than the rest of the observed pulsar population, in some cases with electron column densities (or dispersion measures;…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-05 S. K. Ocker , L. D. Anderson , T. J. W. Lazio , J. M. Cordes , V. Ravi

The dispersion measure (DM) of high-redshift $(z \gtrsim 6)$ transient objects such as Fast Radio Bursts can be a powerful tool to probe the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization. In this paper, we study the variance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Shintaro Yoshiura , Keitaro Takahashi

Recent studies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) have led to many theories associating them with young neutron stars. If this is the case, then the presence of supernova ejecta and stellar winds provide a changing dispersion measure (DM) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Anthony L. Piro , B. M. Gaensler

We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the distances of the burst sources themselves. We establish the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 J. M. Cordes , R. S. Wharton , L. G. Spitler , S. Chatterjee , I. Wasserman

Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bryce Dixon , Calvin M. Hooper , Ian R. Hooper , Simon A. R. Horsley

In order to reach the sensitivity required to detect gravitational waves, pulsar timing array experiments need to mitigate as much noise as possible in timing data. A dominant amount of noise is likely due to variations in the dispersion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. J. Lee , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , D. Perrodin , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , R. van Haasteren , L. Lentati

We report here on variable propagation effects in over twenty years of multi-frequency timing analysis of pulsar PSR B1937+21 that determine small-scale properties of the intervening plasma as it drifts through the sight line. The phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Ramachandran , P. Demorest , D. C. Backer , I. Cognard , A. Lommen

In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first in situ probe of the very local interstellar medium. The Voyager 1 Plasma Wave System has given point estimates of the plasma density spanning about 30 astronomical units (au) of interstellar space,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-14 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. A. Gurnett , W. S. Kurth , S. R. Spangler

We have observed a complex and continuous change in the integrated pulse profile of PSR B2217+47, manifested as additional components trailing the main peak. These transient components are detected over 6 years at $150$ MHz using the LOw…