Pulsar Scintillation: Overview and Some Recent Results
Author: Gupta Y.1
Source: Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 278, Numbers 1-2, 2001 , pp. 25-30(6)
Publisher: Springer
Abstract:
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.
Language: English
Document Type: Regular paper
Affiliations: 1: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune - 411 007, India

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