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Scintillation arcs have become a powerful tool for exploring scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. There is accumulating evidence that the scattering from many pulsars is extremely anisotropic resulting in highly elongated, linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Dan R. Stinebring , Barney J. Rickett , Stella Koch Ocker

We have measured the scattering timescale, $\tau$, and the scattering spectral index, $\alpha$, for 84 single-component pulsars. Observations were carried out with the MeerKAT telescope as part of the Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme in the…

Free electrons in the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) disperse and scatter coherent radio waves, by amounts that depend on the distance to the radio source. Models of the Galactic electron density are thus widely used to predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

We present here a method to study the distribution of electron density fluctuations in pulsar directions as well as to estimate pulsar distances. The method, based on a simple two-component model of the scattering medium discussed by Gwinn…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Deshpande , R. Ramachandran

Precision pulsar timing requires optimization against measurement errors and astrophysical variance from the neutron stars themselves and the interstellar medium. We investigate optimization of arrival time precision as a function of radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-28 M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. J. W. Lazio

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…

The effect of interplanetary plasma on pulsed pulsar radiation passing through is considered. The pulses of two rotating radio transients (J0609+16, J1132+25) and a pulsar (B0320+39) detected on the Large Phased Array (Pushchino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 S. A. Tyul'bashev , I. V. Chashei , M. A. Kitaeva

The magnetized induced Compton scattering off the particles of the ultrarelativistic electron-positron plasma of pulsar is considered. The main attention is paid to the transverse regime of the scattering, which holds in a moderately strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Propagation effects in the interstellar medium and intrinsic profile changes can cause variability in the timing of pulsars, which limits the accuracy of fundamental science done via pulsar timing. One of the best timing pulsars, PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Fang Xi Lin , Hsiu-Hsien Lin , Jing Luo , Robert Main , James McKee , Ue-Li Pen , Dana Simard , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

Cyclic spectral analysis is a signal processing technique designed to deal with stochastic signals whose statistics vary periodically with time. Pulsar radio emission is a textbook example of this signal class, known as cyclostationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Demorest

We study the effect of pulsar rotation on timing of binary pulsars, with particular emphasis on the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Special relativistic aberration due to the orbital motion of pulsar changes both the longitude and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman R. Rafikov , Dong Lai

In order to produce high dynamic range images in radio interferometry, bright extended sources need to be removed with minimal error. However, this is not a trivial task because the Fourier plane is sampled only at a finite number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Sarod Yatawatta

Birefringence in ionized, magnetized media is usually measured as Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radiation. However, pulses propagating through regions with very large Faraday rotation measures (RMs) can split into circularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Akshay Suresh , James M. Cordes

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

Time variable delays due to radio wave propagation in the ionized interstellar medium are a substantial source of error in pulsar timing array efforts. We describe the physical origin of these effects, discussing dispersive and scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dan Stinebring

Multiplexing of radiation detectors reduces the number of readout channels, which in turn reduces the number of digitizer input channels for data acquisition. We recently demonstrated frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) of pulse mode…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 M. Mishra , J. Mattingly , R. M. Kolbas

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova