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We use VLBI imaging of the interstellar scattering speckle pattern associated with the pulsar PSR 0834+06 to measure the astrometric motion of its emission. The ~ 5AU interstellar baselines, provided by interference between speckles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ue-Li Pen , J. P. Macquart , Adam Deller , Walter Brisken

We study the Galactic distribution of normal pulsars with 1400 MHz luminosities greater than 0.1 mJy kpc^2 refining the shape and parameters of the radial distribution of pulsars. To estimate the distances to pulsars we used the new NE2001…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 I. Yusifov , I. Kucuk

We have measured the scattering timescale, $\tau$, and the scattering spectral index, $\alpha$, for 84 single-component pulsars. Observations were carried out with the MeerKAT telescope as part of the Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme in the…

Radio-wave scattering is enhanced dramatically for Galactic center sources in a region with radius >~ 15 arc min. Using scattering from Sgr A* and other sources, we show that pulse broadening for pulsars in the Galactic center is {\em at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 James M. Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio

A photon of wavelength lambda ~1 micron interacting with a dust grain of radius a_p ~ 1 mm (a "pebble") undergoes scattering in the forward direction, largely within a small characteristic diffraction angle theta_s ~ lambda/a_p ~ 100".…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Aristotle Socrates , Bruce T. Draine

Despite some success in explaining the observed polarisation angle swing of radio pulsars within the geometric rotating vector model, many deviations from the expected S-like swing are observed. In this paper we provide a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou

We report on findings from scintillation analyses using high-cadence observations of eight canonical pulsars with observing baselines ranging from one to three years. We obtain scintillation bandwidth and timescale measurements for all…

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

The parabolic structure of the secondary or conjugate spectra of pulsars is often the result of isolated one-dimensional (or at least highly anisotropic) lenses in the ISM. The curvature of these features contains information about the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Daniel Baker , Walter Brisken , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Robert Main , Ue-Li Pen , Tim Sprenger , Olaf Wucknitz

The dust in protoplanetary disks is an important ingredient in planet formation and can be investigated with model simulations and quantitative imaging polarimetry of the scattered stellar light. This study explores circumstellar disks with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 J. Ma , H. M. Schmid

Some bright cD galaxies in cluster cooling flows have Thomson optical depths exceeding 0.01. A few percent of their luminosity is scattered and appears as diffuse polarized emission. We calculate the scattering process for different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 B. W. Murphy , D. F. Chernoff

We report the discovery and timing of two pulsars from a sample of four circularly polarized sources identified in radio continuum images taken as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , David L. Kaplan , Emil Lenc , Akash Anumarlapudi , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Ziteng Wang , Laura Driessen , Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy

In this paper we have used the data of 1315 pulsars (Guseinov et al. 2002) for statistical analysis and showed the changes in pulsar parameters since the appearance of Taylor et al. (1996) catalog. Here we present the space distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. H. Guseinov , E. Yazgan , S. Ozkan , A. Sezer , S. Tagieva

Using three dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transfer models of photoionisation and dust scattering, we explore different components of the widespread diffuse H$\alpha$ emission observed in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Joanna E. Barnes , Kenneth Wood , Alex S. Hill , L. Matthew Haffner

X-ray polarimetric measurements are based on studying the distribution of the directions of scattered photons or photoelectrons and on the search of a sinusoidal modulation with a period of {\pi}. We developed two tools for investigating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Enrico Massaro , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta

We report detections of scintillation arcs for pulsars in globular clusters M5, M13 and M15 for the first time using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). From observations of these arcs at multiple epochs, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Dandan Zhang , Zhenzhao Tao , Mao Yuan , Jumei Yao , Pei Wang , Qijun Zhi , Weiwei Zhu , Xun Shi , Michael Kramer , Di Li , Lei Zhang , Guangxing Li

Radio emission propagating over an Earth-pulsar line of sight provides a unique probe of the intervening ionized interstellar medium (ISM). Variations in the integrated electron column density along this line of sight, or dispersion measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 M. T. Lam , T. J. W. Lazio , T. Dolch , M. L. Jones , M. A. McLaughlin , D. R. Stinebring , M. Surnis

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

We conduct a small-scale pathfinding survey designed to identify the average polarization properties of the diffuse ISM locally at the lowest dust content regions. We perform deep optopolarimetric surveys within three $\sim 15' \times 15'$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Skalidis , G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou , D. Blinov , I. Komis , I. Liodakis

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