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The Naval Research Laboratory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory completed implementation of a low frequency capability on the VLA at 73.8 MHz in 1998. This frequency band offers unprecedented sensitivity (~25 mJy/beam) and…

Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both time and frequency can be used to detect pulsars in large-scale…

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Calibration of radio interferometric observations becomes increasingly difficult towards lower frequencies. Below ~300 MHz, spatially variant refractions and propagation delays of radio waves traveling through the ionosphere cause phase…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. T. Intema , S. van der Tol , W. D. Cotton , A. S. Cohen , I. M. van Bemmel , H. J. A. Rottgering

Interstellar scintillation (ISS) has been established as the cause of the random variations seen at centimetre wavelengths in many compact radio sources on timescales of a day or less. Observations of ISS can be used to probe structure both…

We present an analysis of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) observations conducted with the Arecibo 305-m radio telescope during the minimum phase at the end of solar cycle 24 and the onset of solar cycle 25. These observations span a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 P. K. Manoharan , C. J. Salter

The high cadence plasma, electric, and magnetic field measurements by the Magnetospheric MultiScale spacecraft allow us to explore the near-Earth space plasma with an unprecedented time and spatial resolution, resolving electron-scale…

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…

Ionospheric irregularities and associated scintillations under geomagnetically active/quiet conditions have detrimental effects on the reliability and performance of space- and ground-based navigation satellite systems, especially over the…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Sumanjit Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta

Detection of the global HI 21 cm signal from Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization is the key science driver for several ongoing ground-based and future ground/space-based experiments. The crucial spectral features in the global 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-11 Abhirup Datta , Richard Bradley , Jack O. Burns , Geraint Harker , Attila Komjathy , T. Joseph W. Lazio

For a ground-based radio interferometer observing at low frequencies, the ionosphere causes propagation delays and refraction of cosmic radio waves which result in phase errors in the received signal. These phase errors can be corrected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-14 Poppy L. Martin , Justin D. Bray , Anna M. M. Scaife

We modelled the two major layer of Earth's ionosphere, the F-layer and the D-layer, by a simplified spatial model with temporal variance to study the chromatic ionospheric effects on global 21-cm observations. From the analyses, we found…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Emma Shen , Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Anastasia Fialkov , Will Handley

We apply a theory of wave propagation through a turbulent medium to the scattering of radio waves in pulsar magnetospheres. We find that under conditions of strong density modulation the effects of magnetospheric scintillations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Anuj Parikh

Ionospheric irregularity studies are important aspects for understanding ionospheric physics and related processes, especially near the low-latitude regions. However, simultaneous measurements (utilizing the L-band signals of NavIC and GPS)…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Sumanjit Chakraborty , Abhirup Datta , Deepthi Ayyagari

Structure imprinted in foreground extragalactic point sources by ionospheric refraction has the potential to contaminate Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) power spectra of the 21~cm emission line of neutral hydrogen. The alteration of the spatial…

Solar flare emission at X-ray and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) energies can cause substantial enhancements in the electron density in the Earth's lower ionosphere. It is now become clear that flares exhibit quasi-periodic pulsations with…

The observed interstellar scintillation pattern of an intra-day variable radio source is influenced by its source structure. If the velocity of the interstellar medium responsible for the scattering is comparable to the earth's, the vector…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J-P Macquart , D. L. Jauncey

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is a low-frequency aperture array capable of high-time and frequency resolution astronomy applications such as pulsar studies. The large field-of-view of the MWA (hundreds of square degrees) can also be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 N. A. Swainston , N. D. R. Bhat , I. S. Morrison , S. J. McSweeney , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , M. Sokolowski

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

We use Murchison Widefield Array observations of interplanetary scintillation (IPS) to determine the source counts of point ($<$0.3 arcsecond extent) sources and of all sources with some subarcsecond structure, at 162 MHz. We have developed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 R. Chhetri , R. D. Ekers , J. Morgan , J. -P. Macquart , T. M. O. Franzen