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The ionized interstellar medium contains au-scale (and below) structures that scatter radio waves from pulsars, resulting in scintillation. Power spectral analysis of scintillation often shows parabolic arcs, with curvatures that encode the…

We carried out observations of pulsar PSR B1919+21 at 324 MHz to study the distribution of interstellar plasma in the direction of this pulsar. We used the RadioAstron (RA) space radiotelescope together with two ground telescopes:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 V. I. Shishov , T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , A. S. Andrianov , M. V. Popov , A. G. Rudnitskiy , V. A. Soglasnov

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

For many pulsars, the scattering structures responsible for scintillation are typically dominated by a single, thin screen along the line of sight, which persists for years or decades. In recent years, an increasing number of doubly-lensed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Yen-Hua Chen , Samuel Siegel , Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen , Dan Stinebring

We report long-term scintillation observations of 18 pulsars in the DM range 3-35 pc cm^{-3} carried out during 1993-1995 using the Ooty Radio Telescope at 327 MHz. These observations were made with the aim of studying refractive effects in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , A. Pramesh Rao , Yashwant Gupta

The propagation of radio waves from distant compact radio sources through turbulent interstellar plasma in our Galaxy causes these sources to twinkle, a phenomenon called interstellar scintillation. Such scintillations are a unique probe of…

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…

We show that surface waves along interstellar current sheets closely aligned with the line of sight lead to pulsar scintillation properties consistent with those observed. This mechanism naturally produces the length and density scales of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Ue-Li Pen , Yuri Levin

The search for long-term variability of compact components of radio sources B0821+394 and B1812+412 over an interval of 10 years was carried out. The LPA LPI radio telescope with an operating frequency of 111 MHz was used for observations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 S. A. Tyul'bashev , I. V. Chashei , I. A. Grishanova , G. E. Tyul'basheva , I. A. Subaev

The double pulsar system PSR~J0737$-$3039A/B has enabled some of the most precise tests of strong-field gravity to date. Here, we present a scintillation analysis of the system based on an 18-month observation campaign with the MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 J. Askew , D. J. Reardon , R. M. Shannon , M. Bailes , F. Camilo , A. Corongiu , M. Kramer , M. E. Lower , A. Parthasarathy , A. Possenti , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

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

High sensitivity interstellar scintillation and polarization observations of PSR~B0656+14 made at three epochs over a year using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) show that the scattering is dominated by two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Jumei Yao , William A. Coles , Richard N. Manchester , Daniel R. Stinebring , Michael Kramer , Na Wang , Di Li , Weiwei Zhu , Yi Feng , Jianping Yuan , Pei Wang

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

Pulsar scintillation can be used to measure small scale structure in the Galaxy, but little is known about the specific interstellar medium features that cause scintillation. We searched for interstellar medium counterparts to all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Ashley M. Stock , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

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

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

Our theory relates the secondary spectrum, the 2D power spectrum of the radio dynamic spectrum, to the scattered pulsar image in a thin scattering screen geometry. Recently discovered parabolic arcs in secondary spectra are generic features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James M. Cordes , Barney J. Rickett , Daniel R. Stinebring , William A. Coles

RadioAstron space-ground VLBI observations of the pulsar B0950+08, conducted with the 10-m space radio telescope in conjunction with the Arecibo 300-m telescope and Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope at a frequency of 324 MHz, were…

Scintillation observations of the nearby single millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J0030+0451 were carried out with the Parkes 64m radiotelescope at three different epochs in 1999. From analysis of the dynamic spectrum we obtained the amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Nicastro , F. Nigro , N. D'Amico , V. Lumiella , S. Johnston

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