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Studying Pulsar Emission Regions Using Interstellar Scattering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Carl R. Gwinn
Carl R. Gwinn*
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract

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Radio-wave scattering in the interstellar plasma provides the means to circumvent the diffraction limit for earth-based instruments, and to image the emission regions of pulsars. For the past 25 years, observers have sought to exploit this fact to learn how pulsars shine. I review the techniques developed, and summarize measurements of size of emission regions of pulsars to date.

Type
Chapter Two Pulsars: Their Scattering and Intrinsic Properties
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 182: Sources and Scintillations: Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy , 2001 , pp. 65 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2001

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