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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…

Tempo2 is a new software package for the analysis of pulsar pulse times of arrival. In this paper we describe in detail the timing model used by tempo2, and discuss limitations on the attainable precision. In addition to the intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. T. Edwards , G. B. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

We report 21-yr timing of one of the most precise pulsars: PSR J1713+0747. Its pulse times of arrival are well modeled by a comprehensive pulsar binary model including its three-dimensional orbit and a noise model that incorporates…

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

Precision pulsar timing is integral to the detection of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background as well as understanding the physics of neutron stars. Conventional pulsar timing often uses fixed time and frequency-averaged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Rowina S. Nathan , Matthew T. Miles , Gregory Ashton , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Daniel J. Reardon , Ryan M. Shannon , Andrew D. Cameron

We investigate the effects of gravitational lensing in the binary pulsar system J0737-3039. Current measurement of the orbital inclination allows the millisecond pulsar (A) to pass very close (at R_{min}=4000 km) in projection to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dong Lai , Roman R. Rafikov

We present the results of precision timing observations of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1640+2224. Combining the pulse arrival time measurements made with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope and the Arecibo 305-m radio telescope, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Loehmer , W. Lewandowski , A. Wolszczan , R. Wielebinski

The observed values of the rate of change of the orbital and the spin periods of pulsars are affected by different dynamical effects, for example, the line-of-sight acceleration and the proper motion of the pulsar relative to the sun. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 Dhruv Pathak , Manjari Bagchi

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we have recorded 10^5 single pulses from PSR J1022+1001. We studied the polarization properties, their energy distribution and their times of arrival. This is only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Yi Feng , George Hobbs , Di Li , Shi Dai , Weiwei Zhu , Youling Yue , Pei Wang , Songbo Zhang , Lei Qian , Lei Zhang , Shuangqiang Wang , Chenchen Miao , Mao Yuan , Yongkun Zhang

We study the effect of retardation of gravity in binary pulsars. It appears in pulsar timing formula as a periodic excess time delay to the Shapiro effect. The retardation of gravity effect can be large enough for observation in binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei M. Kopeikin

Millisecond and binary pulsars are the most stable astronomical standards of frequency. They can be applied to solving a number of problems in astronomy and time-keeping metrology including the search for a stochastic gravitational wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sergei Kopeikin

The sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational waves depends on the noise present in the individual pulsar timing data. Noise may be either intrinsic or extrinsic to the pulsar. Intrinsic sources of noise will include rotational…

Pulsar timing uses the highly stable pulsar spin period to investigate many astrophysical topics. In particular, pulsar timing arrays make use of a set of extremely well-timed pulsars and their time correlations as a challenging detector of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-16 Michele Maiorano , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

In certain pulsar timing experiments, where observations are scheduled approximately periodically (e.g. daily), timing models with significantly different frequencies (including but not limited to glitch models with different frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Liam Dunn , Marcus E. Lower , Andrew Melatos

A future measurement of Lense-Thirring (LT) precession using a binary radio pulsar is expected to yield the pulsar's moment of inertia ($I_{\rm p}$). However, most of the known pulsar-binary systems expected to provide this opportunity will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Emmanuel Fonseca

We report the discovery of PSR J1909-3744, a 2.95 millisecond pulsar in a nearly circular 1.53 day orbit. Its narrow pulse width of 43 microseconds allows pulse arrival times to be determined with great accuracy. We have spectroscopically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. A. Jacoby , M. Bailes , M. H. van Kerkwijk , S. Ord , A. Hotan , S. R. Kulkarni , S. B. Anderson

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

We performed simultaneous observations at 326.5 MHz with the Ooty Radio Telescope and at 326, 610 and 1308 MHz with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope for a sample of 12 pulsars, where frequency dependent single pulse behaviour was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Arun Naidu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K Manoharan , M. A Krishnakumar

We have measured variations in scattering time scales in the Crab Pulsar over a 30-year period, using observations made at 610 MHz with the 42-ft telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Over more recent years, where regular Lovell Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 J. W. McKee , A. G. Lyne , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , C. A. Jordan