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The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-03-31 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" radio telescope. The data span is up to 18 years with a typical cadence of 3 weeks. This data release is formed by combining an updated version of our second data release with 3\sim 3 years of more recent data primarily obtained using an ultra-wide-bandwidth receiver system that operates between 704 and 4032 MHz. We provide calibrated pulse profiles, flux-density dynamic spectra, pulse times of arrival, and initial pulsar timing models. We describe methods for processing such wide-bandwidth observations, and compare this data release with our previous release.

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@article{arxiv.2306.16230,
  title  = {The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release},
  author = {Andrew Zic and Daniel J. Reardon and Agastya Kapur and George Hobbs and Rami Mandow and Małgorzata Curyło and Ryan M. Shannon and Jacob Askew and Matthew Bailes and N. D. Ramesh Bhat and Andrew Cameron and Zu-Cheng Chen and Shi Dai and Valentina Di Marco and Yi Feng and Matthew Kerr and Atharva Kulkarni and Marcus E. Lower and Rui Luo and Richard N. Manchester and Matthew T. Miles and Rowina S. Nathan and Stefan Osłowski and Axl F. Rogers and Christopher J. Russell and John M. Sarkissian and Mohsen Shamohammadi and Renée Spiewak and Nithyanandan Thyagarajan and Lawrence Toomey and Shuangqiang Wang and Lei Zhang and Songbo Zhang and Xing-Jiang Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16230},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in PASA