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From 1979--1996 the Green Bank Interferometer was used by the Naval Research Laboratory to monitor the flux density from 146 compact radio sources at frequencies near 2 and 8 GHz. We filter the ``light curves'' to separate intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Rickett , T. J. W. Lazio , F. D. Ghigo

The modeling of the heliosphere requires continuous three-dimensional solar wind data. The in-situ out-of-ecliptic measurements are very rare, so that other methods of solar wind detection are needed. We use the remote-sensing data of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-27 Justyna M. Sokół , Paweł Swaczyna , Maciej Bzowski , Munetoshi Tokumaru

Aims. The phase scintillation of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft telemetry signal was observed at X-band (\lambda = 3.6 cm) with a number of radio telescopes of the European VLBI Network (EVN) in the period…

Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) induces intensity fluctuations in small angular size astronomical radio sources via the distortive effects of spatially and temporally varying electron density associated with outflows from the Sun. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-30 Cathryn M. Trott , Steven J. Tingay

Compact radio sources exhibit scintillation, an interference pattern arising from propagation through inhomogeneous plasma, where scintillation patterns encode the relative distances and velocities of the source, scattering material, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-26 R. A. Main , S. Bethapudi , V. R. Marthi , M. L. Bause , D. Z. Li , H. -H. Lin , L. G. Spitler , R. S. Wharton

The solar wind (SW) is an outflow of the solar coronal plasma, expanding supersonically throughout the heliosphere. SW particles interact by charge exchange with interstellar neutral atoms and on one hand, they modify the distribution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 C. Porowski , M. Bzowski , M. Tokumaru

In this paper, we introduce Internet Photonic Sensing (IPS), a new framework for deformation and vibration measurement and monitoring based on signals that are available from standard fiber optic communication hardware deployed in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Shreeshrita Patnaik , Paul Barford , Dante Fratta , Bill Jensen , Neal Lord , Matt Malloy , Herb Wang

We present a study of the solar wind over different periods of the solar cycle, specifically focussing on the minimum between solar cycles 24 and 25, and the active, ascending phase of solar cycle 25. With the use of interplanetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 A. Waszewski , J. S. Morgan , R. Ekers , M. Johnston-Hollitt , M. C. M. Cheung , N. D. R. Bhat , R. Chhetri , S. C. Fu

Observations of extrasolar planets using Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS), if coupled with an extreme Adaptive Optics system and analyzed with a Simultaneous Differential Imaging technique (SDI), are a powerful tool to detect and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Berton , R. G. Gratton , M. Feldt , T. Henning , S. Desidera , M. Turatto , H. M. Schmid , R. Waters

The RadioAstron space radio telescope provides a unique opportunity to study the extreme brightness temperatures ($\mathrm{T_B }$) in AGNs with unprecedented long baselines of up to 28 Earth diameters. Since interstellar scintillation (ISS)…

The discovery of ubiquitous habitable extrasolar planets, combined with revolutionary advances in instrumentation and observational capabilities, has ushered in a renaissance in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI). Large…

Context. Interstellar scintillation (ISS) of pulsar emission can be used both as a probe of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) and cause corruptions in pulsar timing experiments. Of particular interest are so-called scintillation arcs…

Interplanetary scintillation (IPS) provides an approach for identifying the presence of sub-arcsec structures in radio sources, and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique can help verify whether the IPS sources have fine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Sumit Jaiswal , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Steven Tingay

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is one of its five key science objectives. We conducted a targeted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Guang-Yuan Song , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Bo-Lun Huang , Yan Cui , Bo Yu , Tong-Jie Zhang

Observations over the last two decades have shown that a significant fraction of all flat-spectrum, extragalactic radio sources exhibit flux density variations on timescales of a day or less at frequencies of several GHz. It has been…

We have shown previously that the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), can detect hundreds of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) sources simultaneously across a field of view $\sim30^\circ$ in extent. To test if we can use this capability to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-15 J. Morgan , P. I. McCauley , A. Waszewski , R. Ekers , R. Chhetri

We present results from the first on-sky demonstration of a prototype astronomical integrated photonic spectrograph (IPS) using the Anglo-Australian Telescope near-infrared imaging spectrometer (IRIS2) at Siding Spring Observatory to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 N. Cvetojevic , J. S. Lawrence , S. C. Ellis , J. Bland-Hawthorn , R. Haynes , A. Horton

Interstellar scintillation can be used to probe transverse sizes of radio sources on scales inaccessible to the nominal resolution of any terrestrial telescope, e.g. $\lesssim 10^{-6}$ arc sec. Methodology is presented that exploits this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Cordes

Extensive interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations at 327 MHz obtained between 1983 and 2009 clearly show a steady and significant drop in the turbulence levels in the entire inner heliosphere starting from around ~1995. We believe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-05 P. Janardhan , Susanta Kumar Bisoi , S. Ananthakrishnan , M. Tokumaru , K. Fujiki

We propose a new method to detect off-pulse (unpulsed and/or continuous) emission from pulsars, using the intensity modulations associated with interstellar scintillation. Our technique involves obtaining the dynamic spectra, separately for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Kumar Ravi , Avinash A. Deshpande