{"id":6081,"date":"2018-05-24T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:10:29","slug":"plasma-lensing-in-an-eclipsing-binary-star-system-amplifies-pulsar-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/plasma-lensing-in-an-eclipsing-binary-star-system-amplifies-pulsar-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma lensing in an eclipsing binary star system amplifies pulsar emissions<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pulsars scintillate because their radio signals travel through space\u00a0along multiple paths that interfere with each other. Researchers have used one of these\u00a0scintillation-causing regions as an interstellar lens to localize the \u2018black widow\u2019 pulsar, B1957+20, near the phase in its 9.2-hour orbit at which its emission is eclipsed by its binary companion\u2019s signal. During the lensing events, the\u00a0observed radio flux was enhanced at specific frequencies, causing\u00a0distinct frequency patterns\u00a0similar to those observed for the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0133-z\" target=\"_blank\">Original article <\/a>published May 23, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding Author:<\/strong> Robert Main, University of Toronto &#8211;\u00a0<a>main@astro.utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulsars scintillate because their radio signals travel through space\u00a0along multiple paths that interfere with each other. Researchers have used one of these\u00a0scintillation-causing regions as an interstellar lens to localize the \u2018black widow\u2019 pulsar, B1957+20, near the phase in its 9.2-hour orbit at which its emission is eclipsed by its binary companion\u2019s signal. During the lensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}