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The International Pulsar Timing Array project combines observations of pulsars from both Northern and Southern hemisphere observatories with the main aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~10^-9 to 10^-8 Hz) gravitational waves. Here we…

Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) represent a relatively new class of pulsar, primarily characterised by their sporadic bursting emission of single pulses on time scales of minutes to hours. In addition to the difficulty involved in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , N. D. R. Bhat , R. M. Shannon , S. M. Ord , C. Sobey , M. Johnston-Hollitt , M. Walker , R. B. Wayth

We discuss a multimessenger strategy to detect radio pulses from Galactic binary neutron stars in a very tight orbit with the period shorter than 10 min. On one hand, all-sky surveys by radio instruments are inefficient for detecting faint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-31 Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuki Nishino , Naoki Seto

The relationship between pulsar-like compact stars and gravitational waves is briefly reviewed. Due to regular spins, pulsars could be useful tools for us to detect ~nano-Hz low-frequency gravitational waves by pulsar-timing array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-14 K. J. Lee , R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

We report on a time-domain search for pulsars in 44 steep spectrum radio sources originally identified from recent imaging surveys. The time-domain search was conducted at 327 MHz using the Ooty radio telescope, and utilized a semi-coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Yogesh Maan , Cees Bassa , Joeri van Leeuwen , M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi

The main reasons for searching for pulsars are to: (i) get an accurate census of the neutron star population and its origin and evolution; (ii) connect neutron stars to other stellar populations in the Galaxy and globular clusters; (iii)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. R. Lorimer

Observations of low-frequency gravitational waves will require the highest possible timing precision from an array of the most spin-stable pulsars. We can improve the sensitivity of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 M. T. Lam

The first direct detection of gravitational waves may be made through observations of pulsars. The principal aim of pulsar timing array projects being carried out worldwide is to detect ultra-low frequency gravitational waves (f ~ 10^-9 to…

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

Dispersion in the interstellar medium is a well known phenomenon that follows a simple relationship, which has been used to predict the time delay of dispersed radio pulses since the late 1960s. We performed wide-band simultaneous…

We report the discovery and timing of two pulsars from a sample of four circularly polarized sources identified in radio continuum images taken as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , David L. Kaplan , Emil Lenc , Akash Anumarlapudi , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Ziteng Wang , Laura Driessen , Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy

Pulsars are often lauded for their (relative) rotational and radio emission stability over long time scales. However, long-term observing programmes are identifying an increasing number of pulsars that deviate from this preconceived notion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 M. E. Lower , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , P. R. Brook , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Low-frequency observations of pulsars provide a powerful means for probing the microstructure in the turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). Here we report on high-resolution dynamic spectral analysis of our observations of the timing-array…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 N. D. R. Bhat , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , S. J. McSweeney , S. J. Tingay

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

A new method for separating intensity variations of a source's radio emission having various physical natures is proposed. The method is based on a joint analysis of the structure function of the intensity variations and the asymmetry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Shishov , T. V. Smirnova

To obtain the most accurate pulse arrival times from radio pulsars, it is necessary to correct or mitigate the effects of the propagation of radio waves through the warm and ionised interstellar medium. We examine both the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. M. Shannon , J. M. Cordes

Many astronomical sources produce transient phenomena at radio frequencies, but the transient sky at low frequencies (<300 MHz) remains relatively unexplored. Blind surveys with new widefield radio instruments are setting increasingly…

We propose to use pulsar scintillation measurements to test predictions of alternative theories of gravity. Comparing to single-path pulsar timing measurements, the scintillation measurements can achieve a factor of 10^5 improvement in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Huan Yang , Atsushi Nishizawa , Ue-Li Pen

Interstellar scattering is known to broaden distant objects spatially and temporally. The latter aspect is difficult to analyse, unless the signals carry their own time stamps. Pulsars are so kind to do us this favour. Typically the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-26 Olaf Wucknitz

A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Hongyu Gong , Zhifu Gao , Zhongli Zhang , Zhigang Wen , Yujie Wang , Tao An