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Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

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…

The flux density spectra of radio pulsars are known to be steep and, to first order, described by a power-law relationship of the form S_{\nu} \propto \nu^{\alpha}, where S_{\nu} is the flux density at some frequency \nu and \alpha is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Samuel D. Bates , Duncan R. Lorimer , Joris P. W. Verbiest

We use the cyclic figure of merit to determine the likelihood of achieving cyclic deconvolution for 312 pulsars with sub-40 ms spin periods across 15 different telescope-observing frequency combinations. We find that the optimal frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jacob E. Turner

The period and the period derivative of a pulsar are critical magnitudes for defining the properties of the magnetospheric size and plasma dynamics. The pulsar light cylinder, the magnetic field intensity nearby it, and the curvature radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Diego F. Torres , Daniele Viganò

Interstellar scattering causes broadening and distortion to the mean pulse profiles and polarization position angle (PPA) curves, especially to the pulse profiles observed at lower frequency. This paper has implemented a method to recover…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Abdujappar Rusul , Ali Esamdin , Alim Kerim , Dilnur Abdurixit , Hongguang Wang , Xiao-Ping Zheng

We introduce a novel analysis technique for pulsar secondary spectra. The power spectrum of pulsar scintillation (referred to as the "secondary spectrum") shows differential delays and Doppler shifts due to interference from multi-path…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Tim Sprenger , Olaf Wucknitz , Robert Main , Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken

We consider the role of a propagation effect such as the stimulated Raman scattering on the polarization of radio pulses. When an intense electromagnetic wave with frequency close to the plasma frequency interacts with the plasma in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. Gangadhara , H. Lesch , V. Krishan

Pulsar scintillation allows a glimpse into small-scale plasma structures in the interstellar medium, if we can infer their properties from the scintillation pattern. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry and working in delay-delay rate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Walter Brisken

Despite some success in explaining the observed polarisation angle swing of radio pulsars within the geometric rotating vector model, many deviations from the expected S-like swing are observed. In this paper we provide a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou

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

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

The Main Aim of this paper is to explain the emergence of new components of pulsars at higher radio bands by implementing the Inverse Compton Scattering Mechanism. From pulsar radio observation, it is seen that a couple of pulsars reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 Tridib Roy , Mayuresh Surnis , Mageshwaran Tamilan , Monalisa Halder , Siddhartha Biswas

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

The dynamic spectrum of a radio pulsar is an in-line digital hologram of the ionised interstellar medium. It has previously been demonstrated that such holograms permit image reconstruction, in the sense that one can determine an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Walker , Leon Koopmans , Dan Stinebring , Willem van Straten

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 show the results of our analysis of the pulse broadening phenomenon in 25 pulsars at several frequencies using the data gathered with GMRT and Effelsberg radiotelescopes. Twenty two of these pulsars were not studied in that regard before…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Wojciech Lewandowski , Marta Dembska , Jaroslaw Kijak , Magdalena Kowalinska

One of the major challenges for pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments is the mitigation of the effects of the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) from timing data. These can potentially lead to measurable delays and/or distortions in the…

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro-)physical investigations. In particular arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of milliseconds can be used to detect correlated signals such as…