We describe the procedure, nuances, issues, and choices involved in creating times-of-arrival (TOAs), residuals and error bars from a set of radio pulsar timing data. We discuss the issue of mis-matched templates, the problem that wide- bandwidth backends introduce, possible solutions to that problem, and correcting for offsets introduced by various observing systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.1767,
title = {Pulsar Timing Techniques},
author = {Andrea N. Lommen and Paul Demorest},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1767},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in a Focus Issue of Classical Quantum Gravity devoted to Pulsar Timing Arrays