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Measuring the Size of the Vela Pulsar’s Radio Emission Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.R. Gwinn ,
J.E. Reynolds ,
D.L. Jauncey ,
H. Hirabayashi ,
H. Kobayashi ,
Y. Murata ,
P.G. Edwards ,
B. Carlson ,
S. Dougherty  and
D. Del Rizzo
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C.R. Gwinn
Affiliation:
Physics Department, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA
J.E. Reynolds
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, Epping, New South Wales, Australia
D.L. Jauncey
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, Epping, New South Wales, Australia
H. Hirabayashi
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
H. Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Y. Murata
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
P.G. Edwards
Affiliation:
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
B. Carlson
Affiliation:
Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
S. Dougherty
Affiliation:
Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
D. Del Rizzo
Affiliation:
Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory, Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada
M.C. Britton
Affiliation:
Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
RM. McCulloch
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
J.E.J. Lovell
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Abstract

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We describe the expected distribution of intensity for a scintillating source of finite size observed through a scattering medium, including systematic and instrumental effects. We describe measurements of the size of the Vela pulsar, using this technique.

Type
Part 3. Studies of Radio Emission
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 211 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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