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The modeling of intrinsic noise in pulsar timing residual data is of crucial importance for Gravitational Wave (GW) detection and pulsar timing (astro)physics in general. The noise budget in pulsars is a collection of several well studied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Justin Ellis , Neil Cornish

In high precision pulsar timing, the accurate recovery of intrinsic pulsar profiles and their associated scattering parameters is of paramount importance. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study focused on the retrieval of intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Adarsh Bathula , M. A. Krishnakumar , S. Jena

In our previous paper (Popov et al. (2016)) we investigated properties of the ionized interstellar medium in the direction of three distant pulsars: B1641-45, B1749-28, and B1933+16. We found that uniformly distributed scattering material…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 E. N. Fadeev

Context. High-precision pulsar-timing experiments are affected by temporal variations of the Dispersion Measure (DM), which are related to spatial variations in the interstellar electron content. Correcting for DM variations relies on the…

We simulate scattering delays from the interstellar medium to examine the effectiveness of three estimators in recovering these delays in pulsar timing data. Two of these estimators use the more traditional process of fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Jacob E. Turner , Daniel R. Stinebring , Maura A. McLaughlin , Anne M. Archibald , Timothy Dolch , Ryan S. Lynch

Efforts are underway to use high-precision timing of pulsars in order to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. A limit to this technique is the timing noise generated by dispersion in the plasma along the line of sight to the pulsar,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-04 P. Kumar , S. M. White , K. Stovall , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor

We present multi-frequency scatter broadening evolution of 29 pulsars observed with the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) and Long Wavelength Array (LWA). We conducted new observations using LOFAR Low Band Antennae (LBA) as well as utilized the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 M. A. Krishnakumar , Yogesh Maan , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K. Manoharan

The shapes of pulse profiles, especially their variations with respect to observing frequencies, are very important to understand emission mechanisms of pulsars, while no previous attempt has been made in interpreting the complicated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. J. Qiao , J. F. Liu , B. Zhang , J. L. Han

Pulsar timing is used for a variety of applications including tests of fundamental physics, probing the structure of neutron stars, and detecting nanohertz gravitational waves. Development of robust methods and generation of high-quality…

Traditional pulsar timing techniques involve averaging large numbers of single pulses to obtain a high signal-to-noise (S/N) profile, which is matched to a template to measure a time of arrival (TOA). However, the morphology of individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella , Michael T. Lam , Maura A. McLaughlin

We present the results of the multi-frequency scatter time measurements for ten radio pulsars that were relatively less studied in this regard. The observations were performed using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at the observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Wojciech Lewandowski , Karolina Rozko , Jaroslaw Kijak , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Jayanta Roy

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…

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

In order to reach the sensitivity required to detect gravitational waves, pulsar timing array experiments need to mitigate as much noise as possible in timing data. A dominant amount of noise is likely due to variations in the dispersion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. J. Lee , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , D. Perrodin , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , R. van Haasteren , L. Lentati

We report on findings from scintillation analyses using high-cadence observations of eight canonical pulsars with observing baselines ranging from one to three years. We obtain scintillation bandwidth and timescale measurements for all…

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;…

In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved integrated pulse profile. We present a new method for performing…

Due to the inhomogeneity of electron number density, radio waves emitted by pulsars undergo scattering as they pass through the interstellar medium (ISM). However, a connection between large-scale pulsar scattering data and the structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Qiuyi He , Xun Shi , Guangxing Li

Time variable delays due to radio wave propagation in the ionized interstellar medium are a substantial source of error in pulsar timing array efforts. We describe the physical origin of these effects, discussing dispersive and scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dan Stinebring

High-precision timing of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) over years to decades is a promising technique for direct detection of gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. Time-variable, multi-path scattering in the interstellar medium is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Anne M. Archibald , Vladislav I. Kondratiev , Jason W. T. Hessels , Daniel R. Stinebring