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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 present a new model for the Galactic distribution of free electrons. It (a) describes the distribution of the free electrons responsible for pulsar dispersion measures and thus can be used for estimating the distances to pulsars; (b)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 J. M. Cordes , T. J. W. Lazio

Evidence of triggered star formation at large spatial scales involving stellar clusters is scarce. We investigate a Galactic region (l=130.0, b=0.35) populated by several open stellar clusters that according to the last GAIA data release,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 S. Paron , A. Granada , M. B. Areal

Distance versus dispersion measure relations are constructed for Galactic radio pulsars in small solid angle intervals. The calculations are based on some basic criteria as well as using the independent distance measurements of well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-09 Pinar Kutukcu , Askin Ankay , Efe Yazgan , Kutsal Bozkurt

Small angle scatterings of X-rays by interstellar dust particles create halos around x-ray sources. By observing these halos with sufficient angular resolution it is possible to derive information about both the spatial distribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Randall K. Smith , Eli Dwek

We analyse dispersion measure (DM) variations in six years of radio observations of more than 160 young pulsars, all gamma ray candidates for the Fermi gamma ray telescope mostly located close to the Galactic plane. DMs were fit across 256…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Petroff , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , W. van Straten , R. M. Shannon

Optical depth variations in the Galactic neutral interstellar medium (ISM) with spatial scales from hundreds to thousands of astronomical units have been observed through HI absorption against pulsars and continuum sources, while extremely…

Feedback from massive stars is one of the least understood aspects of galaxy formation. We perform a suite of vertically stratified local interstellar medium (ISM) simulations in which supernova rates and vertical gas column densities are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 M. Ryan Joung , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Greg L. Bryan

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…

The cloud-scale density, velocity dispersion, and gravitational boundedness of the interstellar medium (ISM) vary within and among galaxies. In turbulent models, these properties play key roles in the ability of gas to form stars. New high…

Recently, a few-degrees extended $\gamma$-ray halo in the direction of Geminga pulsar has been detected by HAWC, Milagro and Fermi-LAT. These observations can be interpreted with positrons ($e^+$) and electrons ($e^-$) accelerated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

The pulsed radio emission from the Galactic Center (GC) magnetar SGR J1745-29 probes the turbulent, magnetized plasma of the GC hyperstrong scattering screen through both angular and temporal broadening. We present the first measurements of…

Gravitational radiation that propagates through an inhomogeneous mass distribution is subject to random gravitational lensing, or scattering, causing variations in the wave amplitude and temporal smearing of the signal. A statistical theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J-P Macquart

Pulsars moving through ISM produce bow shocks detected in hydrogen H$\alpha$ line emission. The morphology of the bow shock nebulae allows one to probe the properties of ISM on scales $\sim 0.01$ pc and smaller. We performed 2D RMHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Maxim Barkov , Maxim Lyutikov , Dmitry Khangulyan

High-cadence surveys of the sky are revealing that a large fraction of red-supergiant (RSG) stars, which are progenitors of Type II-Plateau (II-P) supernovae (SNe), explode within circumstellar material (CSM). Such SNe II-P/CSM exhibit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Luc Dessart , Douglas C. Leonard , Sergiy S. Vasylyev , D. John Hillier

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

We report the flux measurement of the Vela like pulsar B1800-21 at the low radio frequency regime over multiple epochs spanning several years. The spectrum shows a turnover around the GHz frequency range and represents a typical example of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-22 Rahul Basu , Karolina Rożko , Wojciech Lewandowski , Jarosław Kijak , Marta Dembska

Broadband radio waves emitted from pulsars are distorted and delayed as they propagate toward the Earth due to interactions with the free electrons that compose the interstellar medium, with lower radio frequencies being more impacted than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Olivia Young , Michael Lam

Investigating the chemical complexity of the interstellar medium (ISM) is key for understanding its physical nature and evolution. In this work, we study parsec-scale interstellar dust clouds in the neutral ISM of the Milky Way using two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 T. Ramburuth-Hurt , A. De Cia , J. -K. Krogager , C. Ledoux , A. J. Fox