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We carried out observations of pulsar PSR B1919+21 at 324 MHz to study the distribution of interstellar plasma in the direction of this pulsar. We used the RadioAstron (RA) space radiotelescope together with two ground telescopes:…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-10 V. I. Shishov , T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , A. S. Andrianov , M. V. Popov , A. G. Rudnitskiy , V. A. Soglasnov

We explore possible advantages of cyclic spectroscopy for observations of pulsars in instances where full cyclic deconvolution is not feasible. We compute cyclic merits and full-deconvolution regime boundaries for pulsars observed by…

The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

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

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…

Quasi-continuous observations of PSR B03239+54 over 20 days using the Nanshan 25-m telescope at 1540 MHz have been used to study the effects of refractive scintillation on the pulsar flux density and diffractive scintillation properties.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Wang , Z. Yan , R. N. Manchester , H. X. Wang

The pulse profile of pulsar gives geometric information about pulsar's radiation model. After investigating the pulse profiles of PSR B1642-03 and PSR B0950+08, we calculate the ratios of beam width and the emission height between different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. H. Cui , K. J. Lee , G. J. Qiao , Y. L. Yue , R. X. Xu , H. G. Wang

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 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…

We have invented a novel technique to measure the radio image of a pulsar scattered by the interstellar plasma with 0.1 mas resolution. We extend the "secondary spectrum" analysis of parabolic arcs by Stinebring et al. (2001) to very long…

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

We model long-term variations in the scintillation of binary pulsar PSR J1603$-$7202, observed by the 64 m Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) between 2004 and 2016. We find that the time variation in the scintillation arc curvature is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Kris Walker , Daniel J. Reardon , Eric Thrane , Rory Smith

We have observed the relativistic binary pulsar PSR J1141$-$6545 over a period of $\sim$6 years using the Parkes 64 m radio telescope, with a focus on modelling the diffractive intensity scintillations to improve the accuracy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. J. Reardon , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , M. Kerr , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

Cyclic spectral analysis is a signal processing technique designed to deal with stochastic signals whose statistics vary periodically with time. Pulsar radio emission is a textbook example of this signal class, known as cyclostationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Demorest

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 present a robust approach to incorporating models for the time-variable broadening of the pulse profile due to scattering in the ionized interstellar medium into profile-domain pulsar timing analysis. We use this approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Dai , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , S. Oslowski

Understanding the evolution of pulsar dispersion measures is vital to high precision timing experiments, as well as astrometric experiments to determine pulsar positions and proper motions. In this work, we present a novel approach to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Baker , Ue-Li Pen

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

A pulsar's scintillation bandwidth is inversely proportional to the scattering delay, making accurate measurements of scintillation bandwidth critical to characterize unmitigated delays in efforts to measure low-frequency gravitational…

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