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We use VLBI imaging of the interstellar scattering speckle pattern associated with the pulsar PSR 0834+06 to measure the astrometric motion of its emission. The ~ 5AU interstellar baselines, provided by interference between speckles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ue-Li Pen , J. P. Macquart , Adam Deller , Walter Brisken

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

Scintillation of compact radio sources results from the interference between images caused by multipath propagation, and probes the intervening scattering plasma and the velocities of the emitting source and scattering screen. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 R. A. Main , G. H. Hilmarsson , V. R. Marthi , L. G. Spitler , R. S. Wharton , S. Bethapudi , D. Z. Li , H. -H. Lin

We report the discovery of fast, frequency-dependent intensity variations from the scintillating intra-day variable quasar J1819+3845 at a wavelength of 21cm which resemble diffractive interstellar scintillations observed in pulsars. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Ger de Bruyn

Stellar bow shocks are observed in a variety of interstellar environments and are shaped by the conditions of gas in the interstellar medium (ISM). In situ measurements of turbulent density fluctuations near stellar bow shocks are only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. Dolch

Radio-wave scattering is enhanced dramatically for Galactic center sources in a region with radius >~ 15 arc min. Using scattering from Sgr A* and other sources, we show that pulse broadening for pulsars in the Galactic center is {\em at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 James M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio

The interstellar medium is a multi-phase, magnetized, and highly turbulent medium. In this paper, we address both theoretical and observational aspects of plasma turbulence in the interstellar medium. We successively consider radio wave…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-19 Katia Ferriere

Interstellar scattering causes broadening and distortion to the mean pulse profiles and polarization position angle (PPA) curves, especially to the pulse profiles observed at lower frequency. This paper has implemented a method to recover…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Abdujappar Rusul , Ali Esamdin , Alim Kerim , Dilnur Abdurixit , Hongguang Wang , Xiao-Ping Zheng

We introduce a novel analysis technique for pulsar secondary spectra. The power spectrum of pulsar scintillation (referred to as the "secondary spectrum") shows differential delays and Doppler shifts due to interference from multi-path…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Tim Sprenger , Olaf Wucknitz , Robert Main , Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken

Bow shocks generated by pulsars moving through weakly ionized interstellar medium (ISM) produce emission dominated by non-equilibrium atomic transitions. These bow shocks are primarily observed as H$_\alpha$ nebulae. We developed a package,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 I. N. Nikonorov , M. V. Barkov , M. Lyutikov

Optical data in the V-band gathered with the 8.2m ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the radio interferometric position of PSR 1706-44 are presented. The pulsar is close to a bright star in projection and was not detected. The pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ray , P. Lundqvist , J. Sollerman , B. Leibundgut , F. Sutaria

Density fluctuations in the ionised interstellar medium have a profound effect on radio pulsar observations, through angular scattering, intensity scintillations, and small changes in time delays from dispersion. Here we show that it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Daniel J. Reardon , William A. Coles

Observations of Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) are an efficient remote-sensing method to study the solar wind and inner heliosphere. From 2016 to 2018, some distinctive observations of IPS sources like 3C 286 and 3C 279 were…

Space Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Li-Jia Liu , Bo Peng , Lei Yu , Ye-Zhao Yu , Ji-Guang Lu , Bin Liu , O. Chang , M. M. Bisi , FAST Collaboration

Radio pulsars emit regular bursts of radio radiation that propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM), the tenuous gas and plasma between the stars. Previously known dispersive properties of the ISM cause low frequency pulses to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 F. A. Jenet , D. Fleckenstein , A. Ford , A. Garcia , R. Miller , J. Rivera , K. Stovall

A search for pulse signals was carried out in a new sky area included in the monitoring program for the search for pulsars and transients. Processing of several months data recorded in six frequency channels with a total bandwidth of 2.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 V. A. Samodurov , S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. O. Toropov , S. V. Logvinenko

Pulsars in the Galactic centre promise to enable unparalleled tests of gravity theories and black hole physics and to serve as probes of the stellar formation history and evolution and the interstellar medium in the complex central region…

We report measurements of time delays of up to 8 minutes in the centimeter wavelength variability patterns of the intra-hour scintillating quasar PKS 1257-326 as observed between the VLA and the ATCA on three separate epochs. These time…

We present results from multi-epoch neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption observations of six bright pulsars with the Arecibo telescope. Moving through the interstellar medium (ISM) with transverse velocities of 10--150 AU/yr, these pulsars have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Stanimirovic , J. M. Weisberg , Z. Pei , K. Tuttle , J. T. Green

It has been proposed that radio pulsars can be distinguished from other point-like radio sources in continuum images by their unique interstellar scintillation signatures. Using data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder…