The Interstellar Medium as a Gravity Wave Detector
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The Interstellar Medium as a Gravity Wave Detector
An observer, situated several thousand light-years away from a radio pulsar, finds himself embedded in the diffraction pattern resulting from the propagation of the radio waves through the irregular interstellar medium. The observer’s movement relative to the pattern causes an apparent scintillation of the pulsar. A binary star, situated close to the pulsar’s line-of-sight, is generating relati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Modern Physics D
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0218-2718,1793-6594
DOI: 10.1142/s0218271897000042