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Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

A method for pulsar timing based on monitoring data from the 3-th diagramm of the Large Phased Array (LPA LPI) radio telescope is proposed. In our observations, recorders with quartz clock generators were used as local clocks. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-14 S. A. Andrianov , V. A. Potapov , S. A. Tyul'bashev , S. V. Logvinenko , V. V. Oreshko

Propagation effects in the interstellar medium and intrinsic profile changes can cause variability in the timing of pulsars, which limits the accuracy of fundamental science done via pulsar timing. One of the best timing pulsars, PSR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Fang Xi Lin , Hsiu-Hsien Lin , Jing Luo , Robert Main , James McKee , Ue-Li Pen , Dana Simard , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

We use recent population synthesis results to investigate the distribution of pulsars in the frequency space, having a gravitational strain high enough to be detected by the future generations of laser beam interferometers. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tania Regimbau , Jose Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

This paper demonstrates the impact of state-of-the-art instrumental calibration techniques on the precision of arrival times obtained from 9.6 years of observations of millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang 64-m CSIRO Parkes Radio…

An understanding of pulsar timing noise offers the potential to improve the timing precision of a large number of pulsars as well as facilitating our understanding of pulsar magnetospheres. For some sources, timing noise is attributable to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 B. Shaw , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede

Detecting and studying pulsars above a few GHz in the radio band is challenging due to the typical faintness of pulsar radio emission, their steep spectra, and the lack of observatories with sufficient sensitivity operating at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-29 Pablo Torne

We extend profile domain pulsar timing to incorporate wide-band effects such as frequency-dependent profile evolution and broadband shape variation in the pulse profile. We also incorporate models for temporal variations in both pulse width…

Precision astrometry is an integral component of successful pulsar timing campaigns. Astrometric parameters are commonly derived by fitting them as parameters of a timing model to a series of pulse times of arrival (TOAs). TOAs measured to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 D. R. Madison , S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes

We have performed timing of a number of known slow pulsars with poorly known coordinates and parameters of their intrinsic rotation. We used data from the archive of round-the-clock monitoring observations on the third (stationary) beam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 S. A. Andrianov , V. A. Potapov , S. A. Tyul'bashev

Pulsar Timing Arrays have yet to convincingly observe gravitational waves. Some time ago it was pointed out by one of the authors that a dramatic enhancement of the signal would take place for particular values of the angle subtended by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-16 Domènec Espriu , Luciano Gabbanelli , Marc Rodoreda

We performed Monte Carlo simulations of different properties of pulsar radio emission, such as: pulsar periods, pulse-widths, inclination angles and rates of occurrence of interpulse emission (IP). We used recently available large data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-29 Krzysztof Maciesiak , Janusz Gil , Valério A. R. M. Ribeiro

We have constructed timing solutions for 81 gamma-ray pulsars covering more than five years of Fermi data. The sample includes 37 radio-quiet or radio-faint pulsars which cannot be timed with other telescopes. These timing solutions and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-02 Matthew Kerr , Paul Ray , Simon Johnston , Ryan Shannon , Fernando Camilo

Pulsar timing at low frequencies offers a powerful tool for studying the interstellar medium. Additionally, pulsar observations in the ecliptic enables us to study the effects of the solar wind which becomes much more prominent at low radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 S. C. Susarla , O. A. Johnson , D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. J. McCauley , J. P. W. Verbiest , C. Tiburzi , A. Golden

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

An algorithm is proposed for constructing a group (ensemble) pulsar time based on the application of optimal Wiener filters. This algorithm makes it possible to separate the contributions of variations of the atomic time scale and of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 A. E. Rodin , Ding Chen

Exploring the concept of a massive photon has been an important area in astronomy and physics. If photons have mass, their propagation in nonvacuum space would be affected by both the nonzero mass $m_{\gamma}$ and the presence of a plasma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-04 Yu-Bin Wang , Xia Zhou , Abdusattar Kurban , Fa-Yin Wang

Pulsars with periods more than 0.4 seconds in the declination range -9o < decj < 42o and in the right ascension range 0h < r.a.< 24h were searched in parallel with the program of interplanetary scintillations monitoring of a large number of…

We describe the procedure, nuances, issues, and choices involved in creating times-of-arrival (TOAs), residuals and error bars from a set of radio pulsar timing data. We discuss the issue of mis-matched templates, the problem that wide-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrea N. Lommen , Paul Demorest