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High-sensitivity radio-frequency observations of millisecond pulsars usually show stochastic, broadband, pulse-shape variations intrinsic to the pulsar emission process. These variations induce jitter noise in pulsar timing observations;…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known as highly stable celestial clocks. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed the unstable nature of their integrated pulse profiles, which may limit the achievable pulsar timing precision. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Liu , R. Karuppusamy , K. J. Lee , B. W. Stappers , M. Kramer , R. Smits , M. B. Purver , G. H. Janssen , D. Perrodin

Pulse profile stability in millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is a key factor in achieving high-precision timing essential for detecting nanohertz gravitational waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). In this work, we present a systematic analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Ankita Ghosh , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Rahul Sharan , Patrick Weltevrede , Jayanta Roy , Sangita Kumari

Understanding the jitter noise resulting from single-pulse phase and shape variations is important for the detection of gravitational waves using pulsar timing array. We presented measurements of jitter noise and single-pulse variability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 S. Q. Wang , N. Wang , J. B. Wang , G. Hobbs , H. Xu , B. J. Wang , S. Dai , S. J. Dang , D. Li , Y. Feng , C. M. Zhang

Time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of pulses from pulsars are conventionally made by a template matching algorithm that compares a profile constructed by averaging a finite number of pulses to a long-term average pulse shape. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Ross J. Jennings , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

Timing pulses of pulsars has proved to be a most powerful technique useful to a host of research areas in astronomy and physics. Importantly, the precision of this timing is not only affected by radiometer noise, but also by intrinsic pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Liu , J. P. W. Verbiest , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , W. van Straten , J. M. Cordes

Most millisecond pulsars, like essentially all other radio pulsars, show timing errors well in excess of what is expected from additive radiometer noise alone. We show that changes in amplitude, shape and pulse phase for the millisecond…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ryan M. Shannon , James M. Cordes

Precision pulsar timing can be used for a variety of astrophysical tests from the detection of gravitational waves to probing the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present analyses of the noise contributions to pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-20 Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Maura A. McLaughlin , Michael T. Lam , James M. Cordes , Joe K. Swiggum

Pulse-to-pulse profile shape variations introduce correlations in pulsar times of arrival (TOAs) across radio frequency measured at the same observational epoch. This leads to a broadband noise in excess of radiometer noise, which is termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles , M. Bailes , M. Shamohammadi

Pulsar timing is a valuable source of high-precision astrophysical measurements which can be used to probe gravitational physics, including by detecting gravitational waves. An important factor limiting the precision of these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Ross J. Jennings , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Maura A. McLaughlin

Using the state-of-the-art SKA precursor, the MeerKAT radio telescope, we explore the limits to precision pulsar timing of millisecond pulsars achievable due to pulse stochasticity (jitter). We report new jitter measurements in 15 of the 29…

High-precision pulsar timing observations are limited in their accuracy by the jitter noise that appears in the arrival time of pulses. Therefore, it is important to systematically characterise the amplitude of the jitter noise and its…

We present evidence that the integrated profiles of some millisecond pulsars exhibit severe changes that are inconsistent with the moding phenomenon as known from slowly rotating pulsars. We study these profile instabilities in particular…

We present an investigation of the morphology and arrival times of integrated radio pulses from the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1022+1001. This pulsar is renowned for its poor timing properties, which have been postulated to originate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. W. Hotan , M. Bailes , S. M. Ord

Pulsar timing has enabled some of the strongest tests of fundamental physics. Central to the technique is the assumption that the detected radio pulses can be used to accurately measure the rotation of the pulsar. Here we report on a…

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known for their long-term stability. Using six years of observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the X-ray timing results for six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Shijie Zheng , Dawei Han , Heng Xu , Kejia Lee , Jianping Yuan , Haoxi Wang , Mingyu Ge , Liang Zhang , Yongye Li , Yitao Yin , Xiang Ma , Yong Chen , Shuangnan Zhang

We present polarization pulse profiles for 56 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) monitored by the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) collaboration using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The observations centered at…

Single pulses preserve information about the pulsar radio emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere, and understanding the behaviour of their variability is essential for estimating the fundamental limit on the achievable pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Liu , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , J. McKee , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , D. Perrodin , M. Purver , S. Sanidas , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , W. W. Zhu

The use of pulsars as astrophysical clocks for gravitational wave experiments demands the highest possible timing precision. Pulse times of arrival (TOAs) are limited by stochastic processes that occur in the pulsar itself, along the line…

We performed deep observations to search for radio pulsations in the directions of 375 unassociated Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray sources using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) at 322 and 607 MHz. In this paper we…

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