Microarcsecond Radio Imaging using Earth Orbit Synthesis

Details Microarcsecond Radio Imaging using Earth Orbit Synthesis Microarcsecond Radio Imaging using Earth Orbit Synthesis

2002-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204093v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ in press. 25 pages, 7 figs

Scientific paper

10.1086/340433

The observed interstellar scintillation pattern of an intra-day variable radio source is influenced by its source structure. If the velocity of the interstellar medium responsible for the scattering is comparable to the earth's, the vector sum of these allows an observer to probe the scintillation pattern of a source in two dimensions and, in turn, to probe two-dimensional source structure on scales comparable to the angular scale of the scintillation pattern, typically $\sim 10 \mu$as for weak scattering. We review the theory on the extraction of an ``image'' from the scintillation properties of a source, and show how earth's orbital motion changes a source's observed scintillation properties during the course of a year. The imaging process, which we call Earth Orbit Synthesis, requires measurements of the statistical properties of the scintillations at epochs spread throughout the course of a year.

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