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We investigate the three-dimensional structure of the pulsar magnetosphere through time-dependent numerical simulations of a magnetic dipole that is set in rotation. We developed our own Eulerian finite difference time domain numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Ioannis Contopoulos

The space mission PLATO will usher in a new era of exoplanetary science by expanding our current inventory of transiting systems and constraining host star ages, which are currently highly uncertain. This capability might allow PLATO to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Dimitri Veras , David J. A. Brown , Alexander J. Mustill , Don Pollacco

We present a robust approach to incorporating models for the time-variable broadening of the pulse profile due to scattering in the ionized interstellar medium into profile-domain pulsar timing analysis. We use this approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Dai , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , S. Oslowski

The interpretation of pulsation data for Sun-like stars is currently facing challenges quite similar to those faced by white dwarf modelers ten years ago. The observational requirements for uninterrupted long-term monitoring are beginning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Travis S. Metcalfe

We study the problem of clustering sequences of unlabeled point sets taken from a common metric space. Such scenarios arise naturally in applications where a system or process is observed in distinct time intervals, such as biological…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tamal K. Dey , Alfred Rossi , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

In the first part of this contribution, we review the development of the theory of scale relativity and its geometric framework constructed in terms of a fractal and nondifferentiable continuous space-time. This theory leads (i) to a…

General Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Laurent Nottale

A new Bayesian software package for the analysis of pulsar timing data is presented in the form of TempoNest which allows for the robust determination of the non-linear pulsar timing solution simultaneously with a range of additional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-04 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson , Farhan Feroz , Rutger van Haasteren , Kejia Lee , Ryan M. Shannon

When designing and developing scale selection mechanisms for generating hypotheses about characteristic scales in signals, it is essential that the selected scale levels reflect the extent of the underlying structures in the signal. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Tony Lindeberg

In this project, we have implemented our basic understanding of Pulsar Astronomy to calculate the Time Period of Vela Pulsar. Our choice of pulsar rests on the fact that it is the brightest object in the high-energy gamma-ray sky. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Shreyan Goswami , Hershini Gadaria , Sreejita Das , Midhun Goutham , Kamlesh N. Pathak

Cyclic spectral analysis is a signal processing technique designed to deal with stochastic signals whose statistics vary periodically with time. Pulsar radio emission is a textbook example of this signal class, known as cyclostationary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Demorest

High-precision pulsar timing relies on a solar-system ephemeris in order to convert times of arrival (TOAs) of pulses measured at an observatory to the solar system barycenter. Any error in the conversion to the barycentric TOAs leads to a…

We discuss the theory of pulsar-timing and astrometry probes of a stochastic gravitational-wave background with a recently developed "total-angular-momentum" (TAM) formalism for cosmological perturbations. We review the formalism,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Wenzer Qin , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski , Liang Dai

Precision pulsar timing requires optimization against measurement errors and astrophysical variance from the neutron stars themselves and the interstellar medium. We investigate optimization of arrival time precision as a function of radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-28 M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. J. W. Lazio

The current algorithms are based on linear model, for example, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) which requires frequent synchronization in order to handle the effects of clock frequency drift. This paper introduces a nonlinear approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Frank Wang , Danjue Li

Accurate distances to pulsars can be used for a variety of studies of the Galaxy and its electron content. However, most distance measures to pulsars have been derived from the absorption (or lack thereof) of pulsar emission by Galactic HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-02 J. P. W. Verbiest , J. M. Weisberg , A. A. Chael , K. J. Lee , D. R. Lorimer

In the primordial universe, oscillations of heavy fields can be considered as standard clocks to measure the expansion or contraction history of the universe. Those standard clocks provide a model-independent way of distinguishing inflation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Yi Wang , Zun Wang , Yuhang Zhu

Stationary, asymptotically flat spacetimes in general relativity can be characterized by their multipole moments. The moments have proved to be very useful tools for extracting information about the spacetime from various observables and,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-10 George Pappas , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Asteroseismology, as a tool to use the indirect information contained in stellar oscillations to probe the stellar interiors, is an active field of research presently. Stellar age, as a fundamental property of star apart from its mass, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. K. Tang , S. L. Bi , N. Gai

Recurrence plots exhibit line structures which represent typical behaviour of the investigated system. The local slope of these line structures is connected with a specific transformation of the time scales of different segments of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norbert Marwan , Juergen Kurths

Examples of cyclic (periodic) behavior in geophysical data abound. In many cases the primary period is known, such as in daily measurements of rain, temperature, and sea level. However, many time series of measurements contain cycles of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-08 Xueheng Shi , Colin Gallagher