The effect of the Solar wind on low-frequency observations of pulsars
Abstract
We operate the six German stations of the LOw Frequency ARray as standalone telescopes to observe more than 100 pulsars every week. To date, we have collected almost four years of high-quality data at an unprecedented weekly cadence. This allows us to perform a wide variety of analyses aimed at characterising the magnetoionic plasma crossed by pulsar radiation. In particular, our studies are focused on electron density variations in the interstellar and interplanetary media, the Galactic and interplanetary magnetic field, scintillation, and extreme scattering events. Here we report the first results from our Solar wind monitoring campaign.
- Publication:
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Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years
- Pub Date:
- August 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921317009760
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1804.04040
- Bibcode:
- 2018IAUS..337..279T
- Keywords:
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- Pulsars: general;
- Solar wind;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 337 - Pulsar Astrophysics: The Next Fifty Years