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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a planned multi purpose radio telescope with a collecting area approaching 1 million square metres. One of the key science objectives of the SKA is to provide exquisite strong-field tests of gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Smits , M. Kramer , B. Stappers , D. R. Lorimer , J. Cordes , A. Faulkner

The Washington Area Large-scale Time coincidence Array (WALTA) is placing particle detector arrays in secondary schools in the Seattle area to build up a large-scale ultra-high energy cosmic ray detector network, one of several such…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Gran , R. Jeffrey Wilkes , Hans-Gerd Berns , T. H. Burnett

The detection of gravitational waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) requires precise measurement of the difference between the pulsars' timing models and their observed pulses, as well as dealing with numerous and sometimes hard to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Giulia Fumagalli , Golam Shaifullah , Alberto Sesana

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are expected to be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive black hole binaries in the near future. In order to identify the host galaxy of a gravitational wave source, the angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Ryo Kato , Keitaro Takahashi

In an accompanying publication, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) collaboration reports tentative evidence for the presence of a stochastic gravitational-wave background, following observations of similar signals from the European and…

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) as gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. To date, that interest has focused mainly on three particularly promising source types: supermassive--black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Curt Cutler , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Michele Vallisneri , Joseph Lazio , Walid Majid

We present an overview and the first results from a large-scale pulsar timing programme that is part of the UTMOST project at the refurbished Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Radio Telescope (MOST) near Canberra, Australia. We currently…

The Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) is an experiment that harvests the collective power of Europe's largest radio telescopes in order to increase the sensitivity of high-precision pulsar timing. As part of the ongoing effort of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , K. Liu , J. McKee , D. Perrodin , M. Purver , S. Sanidas , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory must be capable of issuing fast alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key…

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project aims to make a direct detection of a gravitational-wave background through timing of millisecond pulsars. In this article, the main requirements for that endeavour are described and recent and ongoing…

The Square Kilometre Array will be an amazing instrument for pulsar astronomy. While the full SKA will be sensitive enough to detect all pulsars in the Galaxy visible from Earth, already with SKA1, pulsar searches will discover enough…

Supermassive black hole binaries are the strongest gravitational wave sources in the universe. The systems most likely to be observed with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) will have particularly high masses ($\gtrsim 10^9 M_\odot$), long periods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeremy D. Schnittman

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are currently the only experiments directly sensitive to gravitational waves with decade-long periods. Within the next five to ten years, PTAs are expected to detect the stochastic gravitational-wave background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Tristan L. Smith , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

The paper aims at demonstrating communication capabilities of IPT. For this data communication is performed between two modules using the concept of IPT. IPT was deemed to be the best solution to the system houses a multi parameter…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-04 K. P. Shaji , I. Alsheba , Y. A. Syed Khadar , S. Kannan

The search for pulsars produces a massive amount of data which needs to be processed and analyzed. The limited speed of manual observation necessitates the involvement of large numbers of people to keep up with data collection. This paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-20 Gurmehar Singh , Martin Nikolov , Jake North , Kalée Tock

The International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) has been making concerted and systematic efforts to present and popularise particle physics across all audiences and age groups since 1997. Today the scientific community has in…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-01 Barbora Bruant Gulejova

We perform an observational study of modified gravity considering a potential inflationary interpretation of pulsar timing arrays (PTA). We use a motivated model known as no slip in which the gravitational wave propagation is modified.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohammadreza Davari , Alireza Allahyari , Shahram Khosravi

In our previous paper \cite{PTA1} we derived a generic expression for the pulse redshift the main observable for the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiment for detection of gravitational waves for all possible polarizations induced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Adrian Boîtier , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Philippe Jetzer

Simple analytic expressions are derived for the sensitivity curve of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to both a monochromatic source of gravitational waves and an isotropic stochastic background of gravitational waves. These derivations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Christopher J. Moore

By regularly monitoring the most stable millisecond pulsars over many years, pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are positioned to detect and study correlations in the timing behaviour of those pulsars. Gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive…