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Pulsar scintillation allows a glimpse into small-scale plasma structures in the interstellar medium, if we can infer their properties from the scintillation pattern. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry and working in delay-delay rate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Walter Brisken

Interstellar radio wave scattering leads to flux density fluctuations and pulse broadening of pulsar signals. However, Galactic distribution and the structure of the scattering medium are still poorly understood. Pulsar pulse broadening…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-19 Qiuyi He , Xun Shi

The scintillation of pulsars reveals small-scale structure of the interstellar medium. A powerful technique for characterizing the scintillating structures (screens) combines analysis of scintillation arcs and very long baseline…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Ashley M. Stock , Fardin Syed , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Rebecca Lin , Franz Kirsten , Ue-Li Pen

Context: By providing information about the location of scattering material along the line of sight (LoS) to pulsars, scintillation arcs are a powerful tool for exploring the distribution of ionized material in the interstellar medium.…

We present here the results from an extensive scintillation study of twenty pulsars in the dispersion measure (DM) range 3 - 35 pc cm^-3 carried out using the Ooty Radio Telescope, to investigate the distribution of ionized material in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Yashwant Gupta , A. Pramesh Rao

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

In this work we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The 2D power spectrum of scintillation, called the…

We present the discovery of 8 isolated millisecond pulsars in Globular Cluster (GC) NGC 6517 using the Five-Hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The spin periods of those pulsars (namely PSR J1801-0857K to R, or, NGC…

Due to the inhomogeneity of electron number density, radio waves emitted by pulsars undergo scattering as they pass through the interstellar medium (ISM). However, a connection between large-scale pulsar scattering data and the structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Qiuyi He , Xun Shi , Guangxing Li

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…

We present the phase-connected timing solutions of all the five pulsars in globular cluster (GC) M3 (NGC 5272), namely PSRs M3A to F (PSRs J1342+2822A to F), with the exception of PSR M3C, from FAST archival data. In these timing solutions,…

We conducted a very long baseline interferometric observation of 5 nearby pulsars and did not resolve the scattering disks of any of these sources. Using our upper limits on the angular diameters of these scattering disks and published…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. C. Britton , C. R. Gwinn , M. J. Ojeda

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

We studied the turbulence spectrum of the local interstellar plasma in the direction of PSR J0437-4715, on the basis of our observations and those reported earlier by others. We combine these data to form a structure function for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , V. I. Shishov

We observed the scintillation pattern of nine bright pulsars at 324 MHz and three at 1.68 GHz and analyzed the wavenumber spectrum which is related to electron density variations of the plasma turbulence of the interstellar medium. For all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , E. N. Fadeev , M. V. Popov , N. Ronaghikhameneh , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov

The extreme, intra-hour and > 10% rms flux density scintillation observed in AGNs such as PKS 0405-385, J1819+3845 and PKS 1257-326 at cm wavelengths has been attributed to scattering in highly turbulent, nearby regions in the interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-22 J. Y. Koay , H. E. Bignall , J. -P. Macquart , D. L. Jauncey , B. J. Rickett , J. E. J. Lovell

We report on the simultaneous Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) and Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) observations at 550-750 MHz of the scintillation of PSR B1508+55, resulting in a $\sim$10,000-km baseline. This regime of measurement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 V. R. Marthi , D. Simard , R. A. Main , U. -L. Pen , M. H. van Kerkwijk , K. Vanderlinde , Y. Gupta , C. Roberts , B. M. Quine

Radio astronomy is part of radio science that developed rapidly in recent decades. In the research of radio astronomy, pulsars have always been an enduring popular research target. To find and observe more pulsars, large radio telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-24 Yuxiao Wu , Dejiang Yin , Yu Pan , Liyun Zhang , Zhichen Pan , Lei Qian , Baoda Li , Yinfeng Dai , Yaowei Li , Xingnan Zhang , Minghui Li , Yifeng Li

Interstellar scattering causes pulsar profiles to grow asymmetrically, thus affecting the pulsar timing residuals, and is strongest at lower frequencies. Different Interstellar medium models predict different frequency ($\nu$) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 Karishma Bansal , G. B. Taylor , Kevin Stovall , Jayce Dowell