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Pulsar Scintillation: Overview and Some Recent Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Yashwant Gupta
Yashwant Gupta*
Affiliation:
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune – 411 007, India

Abstract

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Radio signals from pulsars are significantly affected by scattering in the interstellar medium. A review of this phenomenon of pulsar scintillation forms the main objective of this paper. The basic concepts are described and some new results related to the following aspects are presented: (i) understanding of refractive scintillation effects and (ii) constraining the spectrum of electron density fluctuations in the interstellar medium.

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Type
Chapter One Introduction to Interstellar Scintillation
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 182: Sources and Scintillations: Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy , 2001 , pp. 25 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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