Pulse broadening analysis for several new pulsars and anomalous scattering
Pulse broadening analysis for several new pulsars and anomalous scattering
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几种新型脉冲星的脉冲展宽分析和反常散射
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stt989
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
M. Kowalinska
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作者:
W. Lewandowski;M. Dembska;J. Kijak;M. Kowalinska
ABSTRACT We show the results of our analysis of the pulse broadening phenomenon in 25 pulsars at sev-eral frequencies using the data gathered with GMRT and Effelsberg radiotelescopes. Twentytwo of these pulsars were not studied in that regard before and our work has increased thetotal number of pulsars with multi-frequency scattering measurements to almost 50, basi-cally doubling the amount available so far. The majority of the pulsars we observed havehigh to very-high dispersion measures (DM > 200) and our results confirm the suggestion ofLo¨hmer et al. (2001, 2004) that the scatter time spectral indices for high-DM pulsars deviatefrom the value predicted by a single thin screen model with Kolmogorov’s distribution of thedensity fluctuations. In this paper we discuss the possible e xplanations for such deviations.Key words: stars: pulsars – general, pulsars – scattering 1 INTRODUCTIONThe existence of the ionized fraction of the Interstellar Medium(ISM) affects the incoming pulsar radiation in several ways. Thefirst order e ffect - the interstellar dispersion - is due to the amountof the free electrons along the line-of-sight, usually quantized bythe Dispersion Measure: DM =R