Jauncey, David L.Bignall, Hayley E.Kedziora-Chudczer, LucynaKoay, Jun YiLovell, James E. J.Macquart, Jean-PierreOjha, RoopeshPursimo, TapioReynolds, CormacRickett, Barney2020-04-272020-04-272012-04-17Jauncey, David L.; Bignall, Hayley E.; Kedziora-Chudczer, Lucyna; Koay, Jun Yi; Lovell, James E. J.; Macquart, Jean-Pierre; Ojha, Roopesh; Pursimo, Tapio; Reynolds, Cormac; Rickett, Barney; Microarcsecond Resolution with Interstellar Scintillation; Resolving the Sky - Radio Interferometry: Past, Present and Future -RTS2012; https://pos.sissa.it/163/013/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/18336Resolving the Sky - Radio Interferometry: Past, Present and Future -RTS2012 April 17-20, 2012 Manchester, UKThe rapid, intra- and inter-day variability now seen at cm wavelengths in many compact, flatspectrum radio sources, was discovered almost thirty years ago based on accurate flux density measurements made with the Effelsberg 100 m radio telescope. It was initially thought to be intrinsic to the sources themselves. However, accumulated evidence now strongly favours interstellar scintillation, ISS, in the turbulent, interstellar medium of our Galaxy, as the principal mechanism responsible for such rapid variability. For a source to exhibit ISS it must contain a compact component whose angular size is comparable to the angular size of the first Fresnel zone; for reasonable screen distances this implies microarcsecond component sizes. ISS now makes it possible to probe source structure with microarcsecond resolution, finer than that achieved with ground-based VLBI and the equal of that achievable now on the longest space baselines with RadioAstron. The presence of ISS therefore has significant implications for VLBI astronomy, astrometry and geodesy6 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Text