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Interstellar scattering is known to broaden distant objects spatially and temporally. The latter aspect is difficult to analyse, unless the signals carry their own time stamps. Pulsars are so kind to do us this favour. Typically the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-26 Olaf Wucknitz

The CLEAN algorithm, widely used in radio interferometry for the deconvolution of radio images, performs well only if the raw radio image (dirty image) is, to good approximation, a simple convolution between the instrumental point-spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. M. Stewart , D. M. Fenech , T. W. B. Muxlow

Cyclic spectroscopy is a signal processing technique that was originally developed for engineering applications and has recently been introduced into the field of pulsar astronomy. It is a powerful technique with many attractive features,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Mark A. Walker , Paul B. Demorest , Willem van Straten

To obtain the most accurate pulse arrival times from radio pulsars, it is necessary to correct or mitigate the effects of the propagation of radio waves through the warm and ionised interstellar medium. We examine both the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. M. Shannon , J. M. Cordes

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microseconds on five-year time scales, far in excess of signals of…

The dynamic spectrum of a radio pulsar is an in-line digital hologram of the ionised interstellar medium. It has previously been demonstrated that such holograms permit image reconstruction, in the sense that one can determine an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Walker , Leon Koopmans , Dan Stinebring , Willem van Straten

Light scattering in inhomogeneous media induces wavefront distortions which pose an inherent limitation in many optical applications. Examples range from microscopy and nanosurgery to astronomy. In recent years, ongoing efforts have made…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ori Katz , Yaron Bromberg , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg

We present simulations of scattering phenomena which are important in pulsar observations, but which are analytically intractable. The simulation code, which has also been used for solar wind and atmospheric scattering problems, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 W. A. Coles , B. J. Rickett , J. J. Gao , G. Hobbs , J. P. W. Verbiest

The Main Aim of this paper is to explain the emergence of new components of pulsars at higher radio bands by implementing the Inverse Compton Scattering Mechanism. From pulsar radio observation, it is seen that a couple of pulsars reveal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 Tridib Roy , Mayuresh Surnis , Mageshwaran Tamilan , Monalisa Halder , Siddhartha Biswas

The observing signals from pulsar are always influenced by the interstellar medium (ISM) scattering. In the lower frequency observation, the intensity profiles are broadened and the plane of polarization angle (PPA) curves are flattened by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Abdujappar Rusul , Ali Esamdin , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Jian-Ping Yuan

We use cyclic spectroscopy to directly measure the scintillation parameter $C_1$ for the millisecond pulsar B1937+21. This marks the first time this constant has been measured for any pulsar without assuming a pulse broadening function…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jacob E. Turner

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

We report on Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope observations of the Crab pulsar at 350 MHz from 2012 November 24 until 2015 June 21. During this period we consistently observe variations in the pulse profile of the Crab. Both variations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 L. N. Driessen , G. H. Janssen , C. G. Bassa , B. W. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring

We show the results of our analysis of the pulse broadening phenomenon in 25 pulsars at several frequencies using the data gathered with GMRT and Effelsberg radiotelescopes. Twenty two of these pulsars were not studied in that regard before…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Wojciech Lewandowski , Marta Dembska , Jaroslaw Kijak , Magdalena Kowalinska

We analyze the storage and retrieval of intense-broadband pulses with the added effects of Doppler broadening and detuning in a $\Lambda$ configuration. We compute analytical solutions via the inverse scattering technique and show how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Cuevas

We give a new numerical model of pulsar pulse radiation through the interstellar medium (ISM) considering the propagation effects. It explains the deficit of a scattering measure at the decameter range of frequencies that leads to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. A. Seredkina , A. I. Shevtsova

Context: Low-frequency radio observations are heavily impacted by the ionosphere, where dispersive delays can outpace even instrumental clock offsets, posing a serious calibration challenge. Especially below 100 MHz, phase unwrapping…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 C. M. Cordun , M. A. Brentjens , H. K. Vedantham , M. Mevius

Of particular interest for radio and hard X-ray diagnostics of accelerated electrons during solar flares is the understanding of the basic non-linear mechanisms regulating the relaxation of electron beams propagating in turbulent plasmas.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , Heather Ratcliffe

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