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    Resolving the Emission Regions of the Crab Pulsar’s Giant Pulses. II. Evidence for Relativistic Motion by Lin, Rebecca, van Kerkwijk, Marten H., Main, Robert, Mahajan, Nikhil, Pen, Ue-Li, Kirsten, Franz

    Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2023)
    “…The Crab Pulsar is the prime example of an emitter of giant pulses. These short, very bright pulses are thought to originate near the light cylinder, at ∼1600…”
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    Quasi-stationary substructure within a sporadic E layer observed by the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) by Wood, Alan G., Dorrian, Gareth D., Boyde, Ben, Fallows, Richard A., Themens, David R., Mevius, Maaijke, Sprenger, Tim, Main, Robert, Pryse, S. Eleri, Elvidge, Sean

    Published in Journal of space weather and space climate (01-01-2024)
    “…Observations made with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) have been used to infer the presence of variations in a sporadic E layer on a spatial scale of several…”
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    Scintillation Arc from FRB 20220912A by Wu, Zi-Wei, Main, Robert A., Zhu, Wei-Wei, Zhang, Bing, Jiang, Peng, Niu, Jia-Rui, Han, Jin-Lin, Li, Di, Lee, Ke-Jia, Li, Dong-Zi, Yang, Yuan-Pei, Wang, Fa-Yin, Luo, Rui, Wang, Pei, Niu, Chen-Hui, Xu, Heng, Wang, Bo-Jun, Wang, Wei-Yang, Zhang, Yong-Kun, Feng, Yi, Zhou, De-Jiang, Xu, Yong-Hua, Deng, Can-Min, Zhu, Yu-Hao

    “…We present the interstellar scintillation analysis of fast radio burst (FRB) 20220912A during its extremely active episode in 2022 using data from the…”
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    Subsidizing Non-Polluting Goods vs. Taxing Polluting Goods for Pollution Reduction by Main, Robert S.

    Published in Atlantic economic journal (01-12-2013)
    “…Pigovian taxes on polluters are politically unpopular, but subsidies for non-polluting sources are politically attractive. This paper presents a linear demand…”
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    SIMPLE PIGOVIAN TAXES VS. EMISSION FEES TO CONTROL NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES: A PEDAGOGICAL NOTE by Main, Robert S.

    “…Many economics texts introduce their analysis of negative externalities by examining a tax on the output of polluting firms, sometimes called a "simple…”
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    Double-lens scintillometry: the variable scintillation of pulsar B1508 + 55 by Sprenger, Tim, Main, Robert, Wucknitz, Olaf, Mall, Geetam, Wu, Jason

    “…ABSTRACT We report on observations of PSR B1508 + 55’s scintillation at the Effelsberg 100-m telescope spanning from early 2020 to early 2022. In the autumn of…”
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    The θ–θ diagram: transforming pulsar scintillation spectra to coordinates on highly anisotropic interstellar scattering screens by Sprenger, Tim, Wucknitz, Olaf, Main, Robert, Baker, Daniel, Brisken, Walter

    “…ABSTRACT We introduce a novel analysis technique for pulsar secondary spectra. The power spectrum of pulsar scintillation (referred to as the ‘secondary…”
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    A highly magnetized environment in a pulsar binary system by Li, Dongzi, Bilous, Anna, Ransom, Scott, Main, Robert, Yang, Yuan-Pei

    Published in Nature (London) (15-06-2023)
    “…Spider pulsars are millisecond pulsars in short-period (≲12-h) orbits with low-mass (~0.01–0.4  M ⊙ ) companion stars. The pulsars ablate plasma from the…”
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    Pulsar emission amplified and resolved by plasma lensing in an eclipsing binary by Main, Robert, Yang, I-Sheng, Chan, Victor, Li, Dongzi, Lin, Fang Xi, Mahajan, Nikhil, Pen, Ue-Li, Vanderlinde, Keith, van Kerkwijk, Marten H.

    Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2018)
    “…Radio pulsars scintillate because their emission travels through the ionized interstellar medium along multiple paths, which interfere with each other. It has…”
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    Interstellar interferometry: precise curvature measurement from pulsar secondary spectra by Baker, Daniel, Brisken, Walter, van Kerkwijk, Marten H, Main, Robert, Pen, Ue-Li, Sprenger, Tim, Wucknitz, Olaf

    “…ABSTRACT The parabolic structure of the secondary or conjugate spectra of pulsars is often the result of isolated one-dimensional (or at least highly…”
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    Kinematics of Crab Giant Pulses by Bij, Akanksha, Lin, Hsiu-Hsien, Li, Dongzi, van Kerkwijk, Marten H., Pen, Ue-Li, Lu, Wenbin, Main, Robert, Peterson, Jeffrey B., Quine, Brendan, Vanderlinde, Keith

    Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2021)
    “…The Crab Pulsar’s radio emission is unusual, consisting predominantly of giant pulses, with durations of about a microsecond but structure down to the…”
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    Constraining magnetic fields through plasma lensing: application to the Black Widow pulsar by Li (李冬子), Dongzi, Lin, Fang Xi, Main, Robert, Pen, Ue-Li, van Kerkwijk, Marten H, Yang, I-Sheng

    “…ABSTRACT In regions with strongly varying electron density, radio emission can be magnified significantly by plasma lensing. With magnetic fields,…”
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    Profile changes associated with dispersion measure events in PSR J1713+0747 by Lin, Fang Xi, Lin, Hsiu-Hsien, Luo, Jing, Main, Robert, McKee, James, Pen, Ue-Li, Simard, Dana, van Kerkwijk, Marten H

    “…ABSTRACT Propagation effects in the interstellar medium and intrinsic profile changes can cause variability in the timing of pulsars, which limits the accuracy…”
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