Five Years of Pulsar Flux Monitoring: Probing the Inhomogeneity Spectrum of the Interstellar Medium

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Session 36 -- ISM: Structure, Molecular Clouds
Display presentation, Wednesday, June 14, 1995, 9:20am - 6:30pm

[36.09] Five Years of Pulsar Flux Monitoring: Probing the Inhomogeneity Spectrum of the Interstellar Medium

\hyphenation{spectrum} D.R.Stinebring, T.V.Smirnova, J.Hovis (Oberlin)

We report on more than 1700 days of radio pulsar flux monitoring of a sample of 20 pulsars. Data were obtained on a nearly daily basis with an 85-ft telescope at the NRAO Green Bank site at an observing frequency of 610~MHz. Time series and structure functions have been analyzed for these observations. We will discuss the dependence of refractive modulation depth on scattering strength. This dependence can delineate between a Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum for the ISM inhomogeneities and other spectral models.

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