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Given sufficient sensitivity, pulsar timing observations can make a direct detection of gravitational waves passing over the Earth. Pulsar timing is most sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies in the nanoHertz region, with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R N Manchester

Pulsar timing now has a rich history in placing limits on the stochastic background of gravitational waves, and we plan soon to reach the sensitivity where we can detect, not just place limits on, the stochastic background. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Andrea N. Lommen

Pulsars can be used to search for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves of cosmological origin within the very low frequency band (VLF), $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-9}$ Hz. We propose to construct a special 50 m radio telescope. Regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shou-Guan Wang , Zong-Hong Zhu , Zhen-Long Zou , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

Pulsar timing is a promising technique for detecting low frequency sources of gravitational waves. Historically the focus has been on the detection of diffuse stochastic backgrounds, such as those formed from the superposition of weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

A wide range of phenomena, from explosive transients to active galactic nuclei, exhibit variability at radio wavelengths on timescales of a few years. Characterizing the rate and scale of variability in the radio sky can provide keen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yjan A. Gordon , Peter S. Ferguson , Michael N. Martinez , Eric J. Hooper

Pulsars are potentially the most remarkable physical laboratories we will ever use. Although in many senses they are extremely clean systems there are a large number of instabilities and variabilities seen in the emission and rotation of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. F. Keane

Conventional techniques that measure rapid time variations are inefficient or inadequate to discover and observe rapidly pulsating astronomical sources. It is therefore conceivable that there exist some classes of objects pulsating with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ermanno F Borra

Radio pulsars, as highly coherent point sources, serve as powerful probes of the ionized interstellar medium (IISM). Pulsar scintillation observations have revealed inverted arclets on the secondary spectrum, indicating quasilinearly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Zhu Xu , Xun Shi

We present the detection of 107 pulsars with interstellar scintillation arcs at 856--1712\,MHz, observed with the MeerKAT Thousand Pulsar Array Programme. Scintillation arcs appear to be ubiquitous in clean, high S/N observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-17 R. A. Main , A. Parthasarathy , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , A. Basu , A. D. Cameron , M. J. Keith , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , D. J. Reardon , X. Song , P. Weltevrede

Refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS) is thought to be the cause behind a variety of phenomena seen at radio wavelengths in pulsars and compact radio sources. Though there is substantial observational data to support several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , A. Pramesh Rao , Yashwant Gupta

A search for pulsars was carried out using a Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope at a frequency of 110.4 MHz with a time resolution of 3.072 ms and a frequency resolution of 19.5 kHz with a 2.5 MHz bandwidth used. The survey was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-26 S. A. Tyul'bashev , G. E. Tyul'basheva , M. A. Kitaeva

The main purpose of this article is to alert spectroscopists, particularly those involved in surveys, to the fact that rapidly pulsating sources induce periodic structures in spectra. This would allow the detection of new classes of objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-18 Ermanno F. Borra

Pulsar scintillation allows a glimpse into small-scale plasma structures in the interstellar medium, if we can infer their properties from the scintillation pattern. With Very Long Baseline Interferometry and working in delay-delay rate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Dana Simard , Ue-Li Pen , Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Walter Brisken

Interplanetary scintillation (IPS) provides an approach for identifying the presence of sub-arcsec structures in radio sources, and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique can help verify whether the IPS sources have fine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Sumit Jaiswal , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Steven Tingay

Surveys for transient and variable phenomena can be confounded by the presence of extrinsic variability such as refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS). We have developed an all-sky model for RISS which can predict variability on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-26 P. J. Hancock , E. G. Charlton , J-P. Macquart , N. Hurley-Walker

We have shown previously that a broad correlation between the peak radio luminosity and the variability time-scales, approximately L ~ t^5, exists for variable synchrotron emitting sources and that different classes of astrophysical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 M. Pietka , T. D. Staley , M. L. Pretorius , R. P. Fender

We discuss optimal detection of fast radio transients from astrophysical objects while taking into account the effects of propagation through intervening ionized media, including dispersion, scattering and scintillation.Our analysis applies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Cordes , M. A. McLaughlin

Pulsar timing array projects measure the pulse arrival times of millisecond pulsars for the primary purpose of detecting nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. The measurements include contributions from a number of astrophysical and…

We have begun an exciting era for gravitational wave detection, as several world-leading experiments are breaching the threshold of anticipated signal strengths. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are pan-Galactic gravitational wave detectors that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Sarah Burke-Spolaor

A gravitational wave passing through a pulsar will lead to a variation in the moment of inertia of the pulsar affecting its rotation. This will affect the extremely accurately measured spin rate of the pulsar as well as its pulse profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-17 Arpan Das , Shreyansh S. Dave , Oindrila Ganguly , Ajit M. Srivastava