Daniel Thomas Baker
Pulsar scintillation has surprising connections to GNSS Reflectometry of ocean waves. In both cases, emission from a single source intereacts with the surrounding medium to result in multiple light paths arriving at the receiver. In the case of pulsar scintillation, this interaction takes the form of refraction by density variations in the interstellar medium (ISM). Interestingly, despite the two dimensional nature of the ocean surface and ISM column density, images appear predominately on a single arc in delay-Doppler space. I will present results on how this parabolic structure is used in scintillomtry to determine both the speed and orientation of structure in the ISM and discuss potential applications to GNSS-R
