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Interstellar scintillation analysis of pulsars allows us to probe the small-scale distribution and inhomogeneities of the ionized interstellar medium. Our priority is to present the data set and the basic measurements of scintillation…

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 present a timing and scintillation study of the young Galactic halo pulsar PSR J1740+1000 using observations from the Nanshan, FAST, and Parkes radio telescopes. From timing analysis, we measure the pulsar's proper motion for the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 J. M. Yao , F. F. Kou , J. P. Yuan , Y. Wei , William A. Coles , Richard N. Manchester , N. Wang , S. Q. Wang , W. M. Yan

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…

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…

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…

The recent development of $\theta\mhyphen\theta$ techniques in pulsar scintillometry has opened the door for new high resolution imaging techniques of the scattering medium. By solving the phase retrieval problem and recovering the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Rik van Lieshout , Ue-Li Pen

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

We propose to use pulsar scintillation measurements to test predictions of alternative theories of gravity. Comparing to single-path pulsar timing measurements, the scintillation measurements can achieve a factor of 10^5 improvement in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Huan Yang , Atsushi Nishizawa , Ue-Li Pen

The interstellar scintillation observed in radio pulsars arises from interference between electromagnetic waves scattered by electron density fluctuations in the turbulent interstellar plasma, providing a critical tool for probing the…

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…

Giant pulses emitted by PSR B1937+21 are bright, intrinsically impulsive bursts. Thus, the observed signal from a giant pulse is a noisy but direct measurement of the impulse response from the ionized interstellar medium. We use this fact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Nikhil Mahajan , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

The radio pulse from a pulsar can be temporally broadened by multipath scattering in the interstellar medium and by instrumental effects within the radio telescope. The observed pulse shape is a convolution of the intrinsic one with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 M. M. McKinnon

We have made observations of 98 low-Galactic-latitude pulsars to measure pulse broadening caused by multipath propagation through the interstellar medium. Data were collected with the 305-m Arecibo telescope at four radio frequencies…

We studied the turbulence spectrum of the local interstellar plasma in the direction of PSR J0437-4715, on the basis of our observations and those reported earlier by others. We combine these data to form a structure function for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Smirnova , C. R. Gwinn , V. I. Shishov

We report on an effort to extract and monitor interstellar scintillation parameters in regular timing observations collected for the NANOGrav pulsar timing array. Scattering delays are measured by creating dynamic spectra for each pulsar…

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

In our previous paper, we developed a technique for identifying pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images using their distinctive scintillation signatures. Building on this technique, the present study simulates a pulsar population…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

Long-term studies of binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide precise tests of strong-field gravity and can be used to measure neutron-star masses. PSR~J1909$-$3744, a binary MSP has been the subject of several pulsar timing analyses. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Jacob Askew , Daniel Reardon , Ryan Shannon