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Temporal scatter-broadening can seriously affect our ability to find pulsars orbiting the central mass in our Galaxy. Many of these invaluable probes of geometry around the black hole are expected, but none have been found in close orbits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-20 Olaf Wucknitz

This paper considers scattering screens that have arbitrary spatial variations of scattering strength transverse to the line of sight, including screens that are spatially well confined, such as disks and filaments. We calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio

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

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

High sensitivity interstellar scintillation and polarization observations of PSR~B0656+14 made at three epochs over a year using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) show that the scattering is dominated by two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Jumei Yao , William A. Coles , Richard N. Manchester , Daniel R. Stinebring , Michael Kramer , Na Wang , Di Li , Weiwei Zhu , Yi Feng , Jianping Yuan , Pei Wang

Radio pulsars scintillate because their emission travels through the ionized interstellar medium via multiple paths, which interfere with each other. It has long been realized that the scattering screens responsible for the scintillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-25 Robert Main , I-Sheng Yang , Victor Chan , Dongzi Li , Fang Xi Lin , Nikhil Mahajan , Ue-Li Pen , Keith Vanderlinde , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

In this paper, we report our investigation of pulsar scintillation phenomena by monitoring PSR B0355$+$54 at 2.25 GHz for three successive months using \emph{Kunming 40-m radio telescope}. We have measured the dynamic spectrum, the…

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 have examined the interstellar scintillations of the pulsars in the double pulsar binary system. Near the time of the eclipse of pulsar A by the magnetosphere of B, the scintillations from both pulsars should be highly correlated because…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Coles , M. A. McLaughlin , B. J. Rickett , A. G. Lyne , N. D. R. Bhat

Radio pulsars, as highly coherent point sources, serve as powerful probes of the ionized interstellar medium (IISM). Pulsar scintillation observations have revealed inverted arclets on the secondary spectrum, indicating quasilinearly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhu Xu , Xun Shi

We present the first large sample of scintillation arcs in millisecond pulsars, analysing 12 sources observed with the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg 100\,m telescope. We estimate the delays from multipath…

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…

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

Results from new observations of pulsars using the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) are used for investigating the structure of the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM). The observations show anomalous scintillation effects towards several nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Yashwant Gupta , A. Pramesh Rao , P. B. Preethi

PKS 1257-326 is a quasar showing extremely unusual, rapid interstellar scintillation (ISS), which has persisted for at least a decade. Simultaneous observations with the VLA and ATCA, combined with ATCA monitoring over several years, have…

For many pulsars, the scattering structures responsible for scintillation are typically dominated by a single, thin screen along the line of sight, which persists for years or decades. In recent years, an increasing number of doubly-lensed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Yen-Hua Chen , Samuel Siegel , Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen , Dan Stinebring

The parabolic arc phenomenon visible in the Fourier analysis of the scintillation spectra of pulsars provides a new method of investigating the small scale structure in the ionized interstellar medium (ISM). We report archival observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Frank S. Trang , Barney J. Rickett

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…

Intensity scintillations of radio pulsars are known to originate from interference between waves scattered by the electron density irregularities of interstellar plasma, often leading to parabolic arcs in the two-dimensional power spectrum…

Our analysis of archival VLBI data of PSR 0834+06 revealed that its scintillation properties can be precisely modelled using the inclined sheet model (Pen & Levin 2014), resulting in two distinct lens planes. These data strongly favour the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Siqi Liu , Ue-Li Pen , J-P Macquart , Walter Brisken , Adam Deller