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Using data from the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg telescope, we study the scintillation parameters of the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200 over a 7 year timespan. The "secondary spectrum" -- the 2D power spectrum…

Refraction of pulsar radiation by electron density irregularities in the interstellar medium sometimes produces multiple imaging of pulsars which can lead to periodic oscillations of intensity in pulsar dynamic spectra records. Such events…

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

We use VLBA+VLA observations to measure the sizes of the scatter-broadened images of 6 of the most heavily scattered known pulsars: 3 within the Galactic Centre (GC) and 3 elsewhere in the inner Galactic plane. By combining the measured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 J. Dexter , A. Deller , G. C. Bower , P. Demorest , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , A. G. Lyne , M. Kerr , L. G. Spitler , D. Psaltis , M. Johnson , R. Narayan

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

The interstellar medium scatters radio waves which causes pulsars to scintillate. For intrinsically short bursts of emission, the observed signal should be a direct measurement of the impulse response function. We show that this is indeed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Robert Main , Marten van Kerkwijk , Ue-Li Pen , Nikhil Mahajan , Keith Vanderlinde

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

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

The observing signals from pulsar are always influenced by the interstellar medium (ISM) scattering. In the lower frequency observation, the intensity profiles are broadened and the plane of polarization angle (PPA) curves are flattened by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Abdujappar Rusul , Ali Esamdin , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Jian-Ping Yuan

We present the measurements of scatter broadening time-scales ($\tau_{sc}$) for 124 pulsars at 327 MHz, using the upgraded Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT). These pulsars lie in the dispersion measure range of 37 $-$ 503 pc cm$^{-3}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-20 M. A. Krishnakumar , Dipanjan Mitra , Arun Naidu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

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…

Low-frequency observations of pulsars provide a powerful means for probing the microstructure in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). Here we report on high-resolution dynamic spectral analysis of our observations of the timing-array…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 N. D. R. Bhat , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , S. J. Tingay

Cosmic ray electrons and positrons are tracers of particle propagation in the interstellar medium (ISM). A recent measurement performed using H.E.S.S. extends the all-electron (electron+positron) spectrum up to 20TeV, probing very local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-08 R. López-Coto , R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton , G. Giacinti

We present multi-frequency scatter broadening evolution of 29 pulsars observed with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). We conducted new observations using LOFAR Low Band Antennae (LBA) as well as utilized the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 M. A. Krishnakumar , Yogesh Maan , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

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 conducted a very long baseline interferometric observation of 5 nearby pulsars and did not resolve the scattering disks of any of these sources. Using our upper limits on the angular diameters of these scattering disks and published…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 M. C. Britton , C. R. Gwinn , M. J. Ojeda

Scintillation arcs have become a powerful tool for exploring scattering in the ionized interstellar medium. There is accumulating evidence that the scattering from many pulsars is extremely anisotropic resulting in highly elongated, linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-11 Dan R. Stinebring , Barney J. Rickett , Stella Koch Ocker

We give a new numerical model of pulsar pulse radiation through the interstellar medium (ISM) considering the propagation effects. It explains the deficit of a scattering measure at the decameter range of frequencies that leads to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. A. Seredkina , A. I. Shevtsova

Pulsar scintillation allows a glimpse into small-scale plasma structures in the interstellar medium, if we can infer their properties from the scintillation pattern. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry and working in delay-delay rate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Walter Brisken

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