The topics covered in this book include: Theory of Scattering and Scintillation, Distribution of Scattering Material, Intra-day Variability, Pulsars and their Magnetospheric Structure, Polarization of AGN, Interplanetary Scintillation, and Future Highly-Sensitive Radio Telescopes.
The introductory papers emphasize the essential properties of diffractive and refractive scattering, how they differ in temporal and frequency structure, and what they reveal about irregularities in the ISM. Pulsars can be examined in a number of different ways as a function of frequency: time variability (both short and long term), DM changes, pulse broadening, angular extent, and Faraday rotation.
Intra-day variable sources (IDVs) are another major topic of the book. Although many variable sources clearly exhibit intrinsic changes, IDVs are generally believed to result from scintillation effects. They require source sizes on the ten micro-arcsec scale, the most extreme cases having profound implications for source lifetimes and emission mechanisms.
Finally, a dozen contributions describe future large radio telescope projects, especially the Chinese FAST effort to build a 500 m spherical reflector of innovative design.
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Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Research
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
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Maße
Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4020-0048-5 (9781402000485)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-010-1001-6
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Foreword.
I: Introduction to interstellar scintillation. 1. Rickett (`Radio sources.'). 2. Cordes (`The Galactic distribution.'). 3. Goldreich. 4. Gupta.
II: Pulsars, their scattering and intrinsic properties. 5. Manchester. 6. Yangalov et al. 7. Kondratiev et al. 8. Cordes (`Optimizing pulsar.'). 9. Kuzmin. 10. Wang et al. 11. Singal. 12. Gwinn. 13. Smirnova & Shishov. 14. Istomin. 15. Lyutikov.
III: Intra-Day Variability, gravitational lensing, polarization. 16. Jauncey et al. 17. Gorshkov, Konnikova & Mingaliev. 18. Jin et al. 19. Dennett-Thorpe & De Bruyn. 20. Wagner. 21. Kedziora-Chudczer et al. 22. Qian et al. 23. Wambsganss. 24. Rickett (`ISS of polarized.'). 25. Macquart et al. 26. De Bruyn & Dennett-Thorpe. 27. Zhang & Nan.
IV: Extreme Scattering Events, distribution of material, IPS. 28. Walker. 29. Lazio et al. 30. Minter. 31. Shishov. 32. Ramesh Bhat et al. 33. Andreasyan & Arshakian. 34. Han. 35. Artyukh. 36. J. Wu et al. 37. Gothoskar et al.
V: Future large telescope projects: SKA and FAST. 38. Parijskij & Chernenkov. 39. Brouw. 40. Strom et al. 41. Zhu et al. 42. Peng et al. 43. G.Q. Li, Shen et al. 44. Luo et al. 45. Duan et al. 46. Ren et al. 47. S. Wu et al. 48. G.D. Li, Nan & Peng. 49. Qiu & Zhu.
