Sources and Scintillations : Refraction and Scattering in Radio Astronomy

Contains papers which 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. This book also focuses on Intra-day variable sources (IDVs) and includes contributions which describe large radio telescope projects.

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.