Anomalous scattering of highly dispersed pulsars

We report multifrequency measurements of scatter broadening times for nine highly dispersed pulsars over a wide frequency range (0.6 – 4.9 GHz). We find the scatter broadening times to be larger than expected and to scale with frequency with an average power-law index of $3.44\pm 0.13$, i.e. significantly less than that expected from standard theories. Such possible discrepancies have been predicted very recently by Cordes & Lazio.