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The planetary ephemerides play a crucial role for spacecraft navigation, mission planning, reduction and analysis of the most precise astronomical observations. The construction of such ephemerides is highly constrained by the tracking…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-13 Ashok Verma

Measurement of the pulsar timing residuals provides a direct way to detect relic gravitational waves at the frequency $f\sim 1/{\rm yr}$. In this paper, we investigate the constraints on the inflationary parameters, the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang , Xiao-Peng You , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

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…

Stochastic temporal wandering of the spin frequency $\nu$ of a rotation-powered pulsar (i.e.~the achromatic component of timing noise unrelated to interstellar propagation) affects the accuracy with which the secular braking torque can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Andrés F. Vargas , Andrew Melatos

Variations in the solar wind density introduce variable delays into pulsar timing observations. Current pulsar timing analysis programs only implement simple models of the solar wind, which not only limit the timing accuracy, but can also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. P. You , G. B. Hobbs , W. A. Coles , R. N. Manchester , J. L. Han

Three pulsar timing arrays are now producing high quality data sets. As reviewed in this paper, these data sets are been processed to 1) develop a pulsar-based time standard, 2) search for errors in the solar system planetary ephemeris and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Hobbs

Low-frequency radio data improve the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to propagation effects such as dispersion measure (DM) variations, enabling better noise characterization essential for detecting the stochastic gravitational…

In this work, we investigated the presence of strictly periodic, as well as quasi-periodic signals, in the timing of the 25 millisecond pulsars from the EPTA DR2 dataset. This is especially interesting in the context of the recent hints of…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are ensembles of millisecond pulsars observed for years to decades. The primary goal of PTAs is to study gravitational-wave astronomy at nanohertz frequencies, with secondary goals of undertaking other…

The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) has collected observations from 57 millisecond pulsars using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) for close to three years, for the purpose of searching for gravitational…

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

The Light-Time Effect (LTE) is observed whenever the distance between the observer and any kind of periodic event changes in time. The usual cause of this distance change is the reflex motion about the system's barycenter due to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 S. K. Kozlowski , M. Konacki , P. Sybilski

Timing pulses of pulsars has proved to be a most powerful technique useful to a host of research areas in astronomy and physics. Importantly, the precision of this timing is not only affected by radiometer noise, but also by intrinsic pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Liu , J. P. W. Verbiest , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , W. van Straten , J. M. Cordes

The EPM2011 ephemerides are computed using an updated dynamical model, new values of the parameters, and an extended observation database that contains about 680 000 positional measurements of various types obtained from 1913 to 2011. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 E. V. Pitjeva

Symplectic integrators are widely used for the study of planetary dynamics and other $N$-body problems. In a study of the outer Solar system, we demonstrate that individual symplectic integrations can yield biased errors in the semi-major…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 David M. Hernandez , Eric Agol , Matthew J. Holman , Sam Hadden

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

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

Many astronomers have speculated that the solar system contains undiscovered massive planets or a distant stellar companion. The acceleration of the solar system barycenter can constrain the mass and position of the putative companion. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nadia L. Zakamska , Scott Tremaine

Pulsar's position, proper motion and parallax are important parameters in timing equations. It is a really challenging work to fit astrometric parameters accurately through pulsar timing, especially for pulsars that show irregular timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Jie Liu , Zhen Yan , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Zhi-Peng Huang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Ya-Jun Wu , Jian-Ping Yuan , Xin-Ji Wu