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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are searching for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). Here we show how future PTAs could use a detection of gravitational waves from individually resolved SMBHB sources to produce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Casey McGrath , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Jolien Creighton

PSR J1518+4904 is one of only 9 known double neutron star systems. These systems are highly valuable for measuring the masses of neutron stars, measuring the effects of gravity, and testing gravitational theories. We determine an improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. H. Janssen , B. W. Stappers , M. Kramer , D. J. Nice , A. Jessner , I. Cognard , M. B. Purver , .

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 combination of visual and spectroscopic orbits in binary systems enables precise distance measurements without additional assumptions, making them ideal for examining the parallax zero-point offset (PZPO) at bright magnitudes (G < 13)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Ye Ding , Shilong Liao , Shangyu Wen , Zhaoxiang Qi

We present evidence for a small glitch in the spin evolution of the millisecond pulsar J0613$-$0200, using the EPTA Data Release 1.0, combined with Jodrell Bank analogue filterbank TOAs recorded with the Lovell telescope and Effelsberg…

We have timed four millisecond pulses, PSRs J1721-2457, J1745-0952, J1810-2005, and J1918-0642, for up to a total of 10.5 years each using multiple telescopes in the European Pulsar Timing Array network: the Westerbork Synthesis Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. H. Janssen , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , I. Cognard , M. Kramer , G. Theureau

The Argentine Institute of Radio astronomy (IAR) is equipped with two single-dish 30mts radio antennas capable of performing daily observations of pulsars and radio transients in the southern hemisphere at 1.4 GHz. We aim to introduce to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , L. Combi , S. del Palacio , F. G. López Armengol , J. A. Combi , F. García , P. Kornecki , A. L. Müller , E. Gutierrez , F. Hauscarriaga , G. C. Mancuso

One of the imminent science goals of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is the detection of a continuous gravitational wave (CGW) emitted by an individual supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). SMBHBs that cause CGWs with GW frequencies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Kathrin Grunthal , Nataliya Porayko , David J. Champion , Michael Kramer

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are used to search for long-wavelength gravitational waves (GWs) by monitoring a set of spin-stable millisecond pulsars. Most theoretical analyses assume that the relevant GW sources are much more distant from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-03 Dustin R. Madison , David F. Chernoff , James M. Cordes

The sensitivity of ongoing searches for gravitational wave (GW) sources in the ultra-low frequency regime ($10^{-9}$ Hz to $10^{-7}$ Hz) using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) will continue to increase in the future as more well-timed pulsars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Yi-Qian Qian , Soumya D. Mohanty , Yan Wang

Secular extragalactic parallax caused by the solar system's velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background rest frame may be observable as a dipole proper motion field with amplitude $78~\mu$as yr$^{-1}$ Mpc. Nearby galaxies also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Jennie Paine , Jeremy Darling , Romain Graziani , Helene M. Courtois

Accurate distances to pulsars can be used for a variety of studies of the Galaxy and its electron content. However, most distance measures to pulsars have been derived from the absorption (or lack thereof) of pulsar emission by Galactic HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-02 J. P. W. Verbiest , J. M. Weisberg , A. A. Chael , K. J. Lee , D. R. Lorimer

In 2012, five high school students involved in the Pulsar Search Collaboratory discovered the millisecond pulsar PSR J1400$-$1431 and initial timing parameters were published in Rosen et al. (2013) a year later. Since then, we have obtained…

Finding pulsars in binaries are important for measurements of the masses of neutron stars, for tests of gravity theories, and for studies of star evolution. We are carrying out the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey (GPPS) by using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han , Z. L. Yang , T. Wang , C. Wang , W. Q. Su , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. C. Jing , N. N. Cai , J. P. Yuan , R. X. Xu , H. G. Wang , X. P. You

The observation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is one of the goals of gravitational wave astronomy in the coming years. Massive (>10^8 solar masses) and low-redshift (< 1.5) sources are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

The measurement error of pulse times of arrival (TOAs) in the high S/N limit is dominated by the quasi-random variation of a pulsar's emission profile from rotation to rotation. Like measurement noise, this noise is only reduced as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Matthew Kerr

Ongoing research on Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) to detect gravitational radiation is reviewed. Here, we discuss the use of millisecond pulsars as a gravitational wave detector, the sources of gravitational radiation detectable by PTAs and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Pravin Kumar Dahal

We used the "primary dataset" of Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) to search for parallax measurements of central stars (CSs) of Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe), to determine PN distances. We found that a trigonometric parallax is available for 16…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-01 Letizia Stanghellini , Beatrice Bucciarelli , Mario G. Lattanzi , Roberto Morbidelli

Since its launch in 2013, the Gaia space telescope has provided precise measurements of the positions and magnitudes of over 1 billion stars. This has enabled extensive searches for stellar and sub-stellar companions through astrometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 A. L. Wallace

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required to resolve gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. However, the large uncertainty in source localization will make the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Niccolo Veronesi , Maria Charisi , Stephen R Taylor , Jessie Runnoe , Daniel J D'Orazio