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Scintillation Observations of Strong Northern Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Na Wang
Affiliation:
Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, NAO-CAS, 40 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China Astronomy Department, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Chinese Academy of Sciences – Peking University Joint Beijing Astrophysics Center, Beijing 100871, China
R.N. Manchester
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Aili Yusup
Affiliation:
Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, NAO-CAS, 40 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China
Xinji Wu
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Chinese Academy of Sciences – Peking University Joint Beijing Astrophysics Center, Beijing 100871, China
Jin Zhang
Affiliation:
Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, NAO-CAS, 40 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China
Maozheng Chen
Affiliation:
Urumqi Astronomical Observatory, NAO-CAS, 40 South Beijing Road, Urumqi 830011, China

Abstract

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Scintillation of pulsar radio emission provides information about the interstellar medium along the path to the pulsar and the velocities of pulsars. It also affects the precision of pulse timing observations. Using a pulsar timing system developed at the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory 25 m telescope, we observed diffractive scintillation dynamic spectra for several strong northern pulsars. This paper introduces the observing system and discusses the observational results.

Type
Chapter Two Pulsars: Their Scattering and Intrinsic Properties
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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