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Pulsar timing arrays act to detect gravitational waves by observing the small, correlated effect the waves have on pulse arrival times at Earth. This effect has conventionally been evaluated assuming the gravitational wave phasefronts are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Xihao Deng , Lee Samuel Finn

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will become one of the world-leading telescopes for pulsar timing array (PTA) research. The primary goals for PTAs are to detect (and subsequently study) ultra-low-frequency…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 G. Hobbs , S. Dai , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , M. Kerr , K. J. Lee , R. Xu

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) consisting of widely distributed and well-timed millisecond pulsars can serve as a galactic interferometer to measure gravitational waves. With the same data acquired for PTAs, we propose to develop pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Tao Liu , Xuzixiang Lou , Jing Ren

The aims of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project are to 1) make a direct detection of gravitational waves, 2) improve the solar system planetary ephemeris and 3) develop a pulsar-based time scale. In this article we describe the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Hobbs

Frequency metrology outperforms any other branch of metrology in accuracy (parts in $10^{-16}$) and small fluctuations ($<10^{-17}$). In turn, among celestial bodies, the rotation speed of millisecond pulsars (MSP) is by far the most stable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Siyuan Chen , Francois Vernotte , Enrico Rubiola

The primary goal of the pulsar timing array projects is to detect ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves. The pulsar data sets are affected by numerous noise processes including varying dispersive delays in the interstellar medium and from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Ze-xi Niu , George Hobbs , Jing-bo Wang , Shi Dai

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are being used to search for very low frequency gravitational waves. A gravitational wave signal appears in pulsar timing residuals through two components: one independent of and one dependent on the pulsar's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Matthew Pitkin

The opening of the gravitational wave window by ground-based laser interferometers has made possible many new tests of gravity, including the first constraints on polarization. It is hoped that within the next decade pulsar timing will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Neil J. Cornish , Logan O'Beirne , Stephen R. Taylor , Nicolas Yunes

Detection and study of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources is a major goal of current astrophysics. Ground-based laser-interferometer systems such as LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

Metric perturbations induced by ultralight dark matter (ULDM) fields have long been identified as a potential target for pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. Previous works have focused on the coherent oscillation of metric perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Hyungjin Kim , Andrea Mitridate

A pulsar timing array (PTA) refers to a program of regular, high-precision timing observations of a widely distributed array of millisecond pulsars. Here we review the status of the three primary PTA projects and the joint International…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 George Hobbs , Shi Dai

Pulsar timing array experiments search for phenomena that produce angular correlations in the arrival times of signals from millisecond pulsars. The primary goal is to detect an isotropic and stochastic gravitational wave background. We use…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Caterina Tiburzi , George Hobbs , Matthew Kerr , William Coles , Shi Dai , Richard Manchester , Andrea Possenti , Ryan Shannon , Xiaopeng You

At the highest levels of pulsar timing precision achieved to date, experiments are limited by noise intrinsic to the pulsar. This stochastic wideband impulse modulated self-noise (SWIMS) limits pulsar timing precision by randomly biasing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 Stefan Osłowski , Willem van Straten , Paul Demorest , Matthew Bailes

Pulsar timing provides a sensitive probe of small-scale structure. Gravitational perturbations arising from an inhomogeneous environment could manifest as detectable perturbations in the pulsation phase. Consequently, pulsar timing arrays…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-23 M. Sten Delos , Tim Linden

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are collections of well-timed millisecond pulsars that are being used as detectors of gravitational waves (GWs). Given current sensitivity, projected improvements in PTAs and the predicted strength of the GW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-02 Emma Handzo , B. Christy , Andrea N. Lommen , Delphine Perrodin

PSR J0751+1807 is a millisecond pulsar in a circular 6 hr binary system with a helium white dwarf secondary. Through high precision pulse timing measurements with the Arecibo and Effelsberg radio telescopes, we have detected the decay of…

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…

Signals from millisecond pulsars travel to us on geodesics along the line-of-sight that are affected by the space--time metric. The exact path-geometry and redshifting along the geodesics determine the observed Time-of-Arrival (ToA) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-31 Sebastian Golat , Carlo R. Contaldi

Timing of highly stable millisecond pulsars provides the possibility of independently verifying terrestrial time scales on intervals longer than a year. An ensemble pulsar time scale is constructed based on pulsar timing data obtained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Alexander Rodin , Viktoriya Fedorova