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Radiative transfer models in a spherical, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in which the photon source is situated at the center are calculated to investigate the correlation between the scattered light and the dust column density. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kwang-Il Seon , Adolf N. Witt

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 dust shell around the evolved star HD 179821 has been detected in scattered light in near-IR imaging polarimetry observations. Here, we subtract the contribution of the unpolarized stellar light to obtain an intrinsic linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. M. Gledhill , M. Takami

Faraday rotation describes the change of the linear polarization angle of radiation passing through a magnetized plasma and it is quantified by the rotation measure (RM), which is related to the line-of-sight (LOS) magnetic field component…

Scintillation spectra of some pulsars have suggested the existence of $\lesssim$ AU scale density structures in the ionized interstellar medium, whose astrophysical correspondence is still a mystery. The detailed study of Brisken et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-28 Xun Shi

We present multi-wavelength scatter broadening observations of 47 pulsars, made with the Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT), Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). The GMRT observations have been made in the phased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

We use cyclic spectroscopy to perform high frequency-resolution analyses of multi-hour baseband Arecibo observations of the millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21. This technique allows for the examination of scintillation features in far greater…

We present the detection of 107 pulsars with interstellar scintillation arcs at 856--1712\,MHz, observed with the MeerKAT Thousand Pulsar Array Programme. Scintillation arcs appear to be ubiquitous in clean, high S/N observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 R. A. Main , A. Parthasarathy , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , A. Basu , A. D. Cameron , M. J. Keith , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , D. J. Reardon , X. Song , P. Weltevrede

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

We present an occultation study of compact radio sources by the plasma tail of interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (C/2019 Q4) both pre- and near-perihelion using the Arecibo and Green Bank radio telescopes. The interplanetary scintillation (IPS)…

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microseconds on five-year time scales, far in excess of signals of…

Giant pulses from Crab pulsar were observed together with Radioastron space radiotelescope, Global EVN radio telescopes and Kvazar-KVO VLBI stations to study the scattering effects in the ISM. Five observing sessions were conducted at 18 cm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Alexey Rudnitskiy , Mikhail Popov , Vladimir Soglasnov

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

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

Temporal broadening of pulsar signals results from electron density fluctuations in the interstellar medium that cause the radiation to travel along paths of different lengths. The Gaussian theory of fluctuations predicts that the pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl Gwinn

Many studies of the Loop I magnetic superbubble place the Sun at the edges of the bubble. One recent study models the polarized radio continuum of Loop I as two magnetic shells with the Sun embedded in the rim of the 'S1' shell. If the Sun…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 P. C. Frisch

Water ice has a strong spectral feature at a wavelength of approximately $3~\mu$m, which plays a vital role in our understanding of the icy universe. In this study, we investigate the scattering polarization of this water-ice feature. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Ryo Tazaki , Koji Murakawa , Takayuki Muto , Mitsuhiko Honda , Akio K. Inoue

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

The hot intracluster medium (ICM) provides a unique laboratory to test multi-scale physics in numerical simulations and probe plasma physics. Utilizing archival Chandra observations, we measure density fluctuations in the ICM in a sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Annie Heinrich , Irina Zhuravleva , Congyao Zhang , Eugene Churazov , William Forman , Reinout J. van Weeren

The low-density region of the interstellar medium (ISM) where the Sun is located is known as the Local Bubble, a cavity filled with high-temperature and low-density plasma that may be created by a series of supernova (SN) explosions over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Guang-Ya Zeng , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen , Ji-Xuan Zhou , Martin G. H. Krause