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Annual variations of interstellar scintillation can be modelled to constrain parameters of the ionized interstellar medium. If a pulsar is in a binary system, then investigating the orbital parameters is possible through analysis of the…

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit pulses of radiation at regular intervals, typically ranging from milliseconds to seconds. The precise recording and modelling of the arrival times of pulsar emission is known as timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Thulo Letsele , Mechiel Christiaan Bezuidenhout , the MeerTRAP collaboration

Scintillation of pulsar radio signals caused by the interstellar medium can in principle be used for interstellar interferometry. Changes of the dynamic spectra as a function of pulsar longitude were in the past interpreted as having…

We develop the theory of interstellar scintillation as caused by an irregular plasma having a power-law spatial density spectrum with a spectral exponent of 4 corresponding to a medium with abrupt changes in its density. An ``outer scale''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hendrik Lambert , Barney Rickett

Observations of pulsar scintillation are among the few astrophysical probes of very small-scale ($\lesssim$ au) phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). In particular, characterization of scintillation arcs, including their curvature and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. R. Stinebring , T. Dolch , V. Pelgrims , J. W. McKee , C. Giannakopoulos , D. J. Reardon

We report here a series of observations of the interstellar scintillation (ISS) of the double pulsar J0737$-$3039 over the course of 18 months. As in earlier work (Coles et al., 2005) the basic phenomenon is the variation in the ISS caused…

We present 154 MHz Murchison Widefield Array imaging observations and variability information for a sample of pulsars. Over the declination range $-80^{\circ} < {\delta} < 10^{\circ}$ we detect 17 known pulsars with mean flux density…

Weak interstellar scintillations of pulsar B0809+74 were observed at two epochs using a 30m EISCAT antenna at 933 MHz. These have been used to constrain the spectrum, the distribution and the transverse velocity of the scattering plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Barney Rickett , Bill Coles , Jussi Markkanen

We report a dramatic orbital modulation in the scintillation timescale of the relativistic binary pulsar J1141--6545 that both confirms the validity of the scintillation speed methodology and enables us to derive important physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Ord , M. Bailes , W. van Straten

We present 1.25 GHz observations of the rotating radio transient (RRAT) J2325-0530, conducted with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Approximately 60% of detected single pulses occur in clusters of 2 to 5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Zhen Yan , Yi-Xuan Shao , Ping Zhou

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are sporadically emitting pulsars detectable only through searches for single pulses. While over 100 RRATs have been detected, only a small fraction (roughly 20\%) have phase-connected timing solutions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Min Jiang , Bingyi Cui , Natalia Schmid , Maura McLaughlin , Zhicheng Cao

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

Understanding the jitter noise resulting from single-pulse phase and shape variations is important for the detection of gravitational waves using pulsar timing array. We presented measurements of jitter noise and single-pulse variability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 S. Q. Wang , N. Wang , J. B. Wang , G. Hobbs , H. Xu , B. J. Wang , S. Dai , S. J. Dang , D. Li , Y. Feng , C. M. Zhang

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we have recorded 10^5 single pulses from PSR J1022+1001. We studied the polarization properties, their energy distribution and their times of arrival. This is only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Yi Feng , George Hobbs , Di Li , Shi Dai , Weiwei Zhu , Youling Yue , Pei Wang , Songbo Zhang , Lei Qian , Lei Zhang , Shuangqiang Wang , Chenchen Miao , Mao Yuan , Yongkun Zhang

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 the timing solutions for three radio pulsars discovered with the Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) and 350-MHz Green Bank Telescope drift-scan surveys. These pulsars were initially discovered through their single-pulse…

We present the first polarization measurements of the radio emission from RRAT J1819$-$1458. Our observations, conducted in parallel to regular timing sessions, have yielded a small number of bright and polarized pulses. The polarization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-11 A. Karastergiou , A. W Hotan , W. van Straten , M. A McLaughlin , S. M Ord

Single pulses preserve information about the pulsar radio emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere, and understanding the behaviour of their variability is essential for estimating the fundamental limit on the achievable pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Liu , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , J. McKee , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , D. Perrodin , M. Purver , S. Sanidas , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , W. W. Zhu

We describe our studies of the radio and high-energy properties of Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs). We find that the radio pulse intensity distributions are log-normal, with power-law tails evident in two cases. For the three RRATs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Joshua Miller , Maura McLaughlin , Nanda Rea , Evan Keane , Andrew Lyne , Michael Kramer , Richard Manchester , Kosmas Lazaridis

We present interstellar scintillation velocity measurements for four millisecond pulsars obtained from long-term monitoring observations with the Arecibo radio telescope at 430 MHz. We also derive explicit expressions that relate the…