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An AU-Aperture Lens to Resolve the Vela Pulsar’s Radio Emission Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.R. Gwinn
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
M.J. Ojeda
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
M.C. Britton
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara
J.E. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility
D.L. Jauncey
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility
E.A. King
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility
C.S. Flanagan
Affiliation:
Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
D.P. Smits
Affiliation:
Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
R.A. Preston
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
D.L. Jones
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Abstract

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We use radio-wave scattering in the Vela supernova remnant, surrounding the Vela pulsar, as an AU-scale lens to study the Vela pulsar’s emission region.

Type
Part 6 Winds and the ISM
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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