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Compact radio sources such as pulsars and FRBs undergo scintillation in the interstellar medium (ISM) when scattered images interfere at the observer. ``Scintillometry'' refers to the range of techniques to extract astrometric information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Dylan L. Jow , Delon Shen

Most of the baryons in the low-redshift universe reside in a warm/hot component which is difficult to detect with standard absorption/emission line techniques. We propose to use quasar refractive scintillation as an useful, complementary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrea Ferrara , Rosalba Perna

Solar-wind 3-D reconstruction tomography based on interplanetary scintillation (IPS) studies provides fundamental information for space-weather forecasting models, and gives the possibility to determine heliospheric column densities. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 C. Tiburzi , B. V. Jackson , L. Cota , G. M. Shaifullah , R. A. Fallows , M. Tokumaru , P. Zucca

We examine the long-term evolution of the intra-hour variable quasar, J1819+3845, whose variations have been attributed to interstellar scintillation by extremely local turbulent plasma, located only 1-3pc from Earth. The variations in this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 A. G. de Bruyn , J. -P. Macquart

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

Radio waves propagating through the interstellar medium are influenced by variations in plasma density. For spatially localised plasma structures along the line of sight, time-delay Doppler analyses of pulsars often reveal scintillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Tobias Kramer

In this research, we investigate Explosive Events (EEs) in the off-limb solar atmosphere, with simultaneous observations from the Si IV, Mg II k, and slit-jaw images (SJI) of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), on 17 August…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 E. Tavabi , S. Zeighami , M. Heydari

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

We present the detection of 107 pulsars with interstellar scintillation arcs at 856--1712\,MHz, observed with the MeerKAT Thousand Pulsar Array Programme. Scintillation arcs appear to be ubiquitous in clean, high S/N observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 R. A. Main , A. Parthasarathy , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , A. Basu , A. D. Cameron , M. J. Keith , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , D. J. Reardon , X. Song , P. Weltevrede

This work focus on the first results on the identification and characterization of periodic plasma density fluctuations in the outer corona, observed in STEREO-A COR1 white-light image time series. A 2D reconstruction of the spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Telloni , R. Ventura , P. Romano , D. Spadaro , E. Antonucci

We present a comprehensive interstellar scintillation (ISS) study of the radio-loud magnetar XTE~J1810$-$197, based on six years of multi-frequency monitoring (2018$-$2024) with the Shanghai Tian Ma Radio Telescope (TMRT) at 7.0, 8.6, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Rui Wang , Zhen Yan , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhenlong Liao , Zhipeng Huang , Yajun Wu , Rongbing Zhao , Xiaowei Wang , Jie Liu , Kuo Liu , Fan Yang , Yangyang Lin , Chuyuan Zhang

We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Ziyang Wang , Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Jintao Xie

Electron energy loss spectroscopy is consolidating as a powerful tool to explore electronic (as well as vibrational) excitations of matter, including molecules. Performed in a scanning transmission electron microscope, this technique is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Ciro A. Guido , Enzo Rotunno , Matteo Zanfrognini , Stefano Corni , Vincenzo Grillo

In this report we describe the analysis status of electron-pion inelastic scattering $\pi e \to \pi' e' \gamma$ and $\pi e \to \pi' e' \pi^0$ reaction data, measured in inverse pion-electron scattering at 590 GeV/c at FNAL. The data give…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Murray A. Moinester , Aharon Ocherashvili , Victor Steiner

It is expected that extreme mass accretion rate onto strongly magnetised neutron star results in appearance of accretion columns above stellar surface. For a distant observer, rotation of a star results in periodic variations of X-ray flux.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Albert Weng , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Ilya A. Mereminskiy

We investigate the phase interference effects in the nonlinear Compton scattering via the collision between an high-energy electron and the laser in the intermediate intensity region, and reveal that the importance of interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-15 Zu-dong Zhao , Suo Tang

We measure the effects of interstellar scattering on average pulse profiles from 13 radio pulsars with simple pulse shapes. We use data from the LOFAR High Band Antennas, at frequencies between 110 and 190~MHz. We apply a forward fitting…

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

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

The precision of intensity measurements of the extragalactic X-ray Background (XRB) on an angular scale of about a degree is dominated by spatial fluctuations caused by source confusion noise. X-ray source counts at the flux level…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 X. Barcons , A. C. Fabian , F. J. Carrera