Diffractive Scintillation of the Pulsar PSR B1259-63

Details Diffractive Scintillation of the Pulsar PSR B1259-63 Diffractive Scintillation of the Pulsar PSR B1259-63

1997-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711012v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1086/311088

PSR B1259-63 is in a highly eccentric 3.4 yr orbit around the Be-star SS2883. The system is located in the direction of the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm at a distance of $\sim$1.5 kpc. We have made scintillation observations of the pulsar far from periastron at 4.8 GHz and 8.4 GHz, determining the diffractive bandwidth, $\Delta \nu_{\rm d}$, and timescale, $\Delta t_{\rm d}$, at both frequencies. We find no dependency on orbital phase until within 30 days of periastron. The data indicate that the scintillation is caused, not by the circumstellar environment, but by an HII region within the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm located at least three-quarters of the way to the pulsar. Close to periastron, when the line-of-sight to the pulsar intersects the disk of the Be star, the electron densities within the disk are sufficient to overcome the `lever-arm effect' and produce a reduction in the scintillation bandwidth by six orders of magnitude.

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