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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

Measurements of the optical turbulence profile above Siding Spring Observatory were conducted during 2005 and 2006. This effort was largely motivated by the need to predict the statistical performance of adaptive optics at Siding Spring.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michael Goodwin , Charles Jenkins , Andrew Lambert

We observed the nearby 100$\%$-duty-cycle radio pulsar B0950+08 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We obtained the polarization profile for its entire rotation, which enabled us to investigate its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Jiguang Lu , Jinchen Jiang , Shunshun Cao , Kejia Lee , Enwei Liang , Lunhua Shang , Renxin Xu , Weiwei Zhu

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

In an investigative 16 hour L band observation using the MERLIN radio interferometric array, we have resolved both the pulsar PSR B1951+32 and structure within the flat spectral radio continuum region, believed to be the synchrotron nebula…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Golden , S. Bourke , G. Clyne , R. F. Butler , A. Shearer , T. W. B. Muxlow , W. F. Brisken

With the largest dish Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), both the mean and single pulses of PSR B2016$+$28, especially including the single-pulse structure, are investigated in detail in this study. The mean pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-18 Jiguang Lu , Bo Peng , Renxin Xu , Meng Yu , Shi Dai , Weiwei Zhu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Peng Jiang , Youling Yue , Lin Wang , FAST Collaboration

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 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 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

The Kolmogorov inertial range ratio of the mixed- to- longitudinal third-order structure functions of isotropic and homogeneous turbulence is $\frac{S_{1,2}}{S_{3,0}}=1/3$. Recent measurements by Kurien and Sreenivasan (Phys. Rev. E {\bf…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Yakhot

A recent X-ray observation has shown that the radio pulsar PSR B0943+10, with clear drifting subpulses, has a much smaller polar cap area than that of conventional pulsars with mass of $\sim\msun$ and radius of $\sim10$ km. Zhang et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. L. Yue , X. H. Cui , R. X. Xu

We have detected substructure within the smooth scattering disk of the celebrated Galactic Center radio source Sagittarius A* (SgrA*). We observed this structure at 1.3 cm wavelength with the Very Long Baseline Array together with the Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-03 C. R. Gwinn , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. D. Johnson , V. A. Soglasnov

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

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 observed structure function (SF) of rotation measure (RM) varies as a broken power-law function of angular scales. The systematic shallowness of its spectral slope is inconsistent with the standard Kolmogorov scaling. This motivates us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-24 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Measurements of average pulse profiles made with a single linear polarization over the range 41-112 MHz are presented for PSR B0950+08. We show that the observed variable structure of the pulse profiles is a result of Faraday sinusoidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. V. Shabanova , Yu. P. Shitov

We present timing solutions of PSR B0950+08, using 14 years of observations at Nanshan 26-m Radio Telescope of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory. The braking index of PSR B0950+08 varies from --367 392 to 168 883, which shows an oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-28 Huang. Hai-tao , Zhou. Xia , Yuan. Jian-ping , Zheng. Xiao-ping

We present here the detection of giant-pulse emission from PSR B0950+08, a normal-period pulsar. The observations, made at 103 MHz and lasting for about ten months, have shown on a number of days the frequency of occurrence of giant pulses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-11 Ashok K. Singal , Hari Om Vats

We report on the substructure of visibility functions in the delay domain of PSRs B0329+54, B0823+26, B0834+06, B1933+16 and B0833-45 (Vela) observed with earth-earth and RadioAstron space-earth two-element interferometers at frequencies of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 M. V. Popov , N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , C. R. Gwinn , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov

We report on an effort to extract and monitor interstellar scintillation parameters in regular timing observations collected for the NANOGrav pulsar timing array. Scattering delays are measured by creating dynamic spectra for each pulsar…