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We introduce a method for performing a robust Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussianity present in pulsar timing data, simultaneously with the pulsar timing model, and additional stochastic parameters such as those describing red spin noise and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Lindley Lentati , Michael P. Hobson , Paul Alexander

The sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to gravitational waves is, at some level, limited by timing noise. Red timing noise - the stochastic wandering of pulse arrival times with a red spectrum - is prevalent in slow-spinning pulsars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul D. Lasky , Andrew Melatos , Vikram Ravi , George Hobbs

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microseconds on five-year time scales, far in excess of signals of…

Pulsars are known to display short-term variability. Recently, examples of longer-term emission variability have emerged that are often correlated with changes in the rotational properties of the pulsar. To further illuminate this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 P. R. Brook , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , R. M. Shannon , S. J. Roberts

The stable rotation of young pulsars is often interrupted by two non-deterministic phenomena: glitches and red timing noise. Timing noise provides insights into plasma and nuclear physics under extreme conditions. The framework leverages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yirong Wen , Jingbo Wang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Na Wang , Yong Xia , Jing Zou

We present timing models for 20 millisecond pulsars in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. The precision of the parameter measurements in these models has been improved over earlier results by using longer data sets and modelling the…

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…

Here we present a Bayesian method of including discrete measurements of dispersion measure due to the interstellar medium in the direction of a pulsar as prior information in the analysis of that pulsar. We use a simple simulation to show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson

The turbulent nature of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) causes dispersion measure (DM) and scattering variations in pulsar timing measurements. To improve precision of gravitational wave measurements, pulsar timing array (PTA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-06 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles

The nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB) is expected to be an aggregate signal of an ensemble of gravitational waves emitted predominantly by a large population of coalescing supermassive black hole binaries in the centres of…

Radio pulsars allow the study of the ionised interstellar medium and its dispersive effects, a major noise source in gravitational wave searches using pulsars. In this paper, we compare the functionality and reliability of three commonly…

The measurement of the spin frequency in accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars (AMXPs) is strongly affected by the presence of an unmodeled component in the pulse arrival times called 'timing noise'. We show that it is possible to attribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Alessandro Patruno , Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

Millisecond and binary pulsars are the most stable natural frequency standards which admits to introduce modified versions of universal and ephemeris time scales based correspondingly on the intrinsic rotation of pulsar and on its orbital…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei M. Kopeikin , Vladimir A. Potapov

A new Bayesian software package for the analysis of pulsar timing data is presented in the form of TempoNest which allows for the robust determination of the non-linear pulsar timing solution simultaneously with a range of additional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-04 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson , Farhan Feroz , Rutger van Haasteren , Kejia Lee , Ryan M. Shannon

We study the effect of pulsar rotation on timing of binary pulsars, with particular emphasis on the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Special relativistic aberration due to the orbital motion of pulsar changes both the longitude and…

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

Radio pulsars are often used as clocks in a wide variety of experiments. Imperfections in the clock, known as timing noise, have the potential to reduce the significance of, or even thwart e.g. the attempt to find a stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Nakornping Namkham , Phrudth Jaroenjittichai , Simon Johnston

Though pulsars spin regularly, the differences between the observed and predicted ToA (time of arrival), known as "timing noise", can still reach a few milliseconds or more. We try to understand the noise in this paper. As proposed by Xu &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiongwei Liu , Xuesen Na , Renxin Xu , Guojun Qiao

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…

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

The following results of dissertation are submitted for defense: 1. Precise measurements of coordinates and proper motion of the pulsar PSR 0329+54 using the VLBI method. 2. Establishing of the reason for the discrepancy between the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Alexander Evgenievich Rodin