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Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary parameters when applicable, properties of the ISM, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Jackson Taylor , Scott Ransom , Prajwal V. Padmanabh

Millisecond pulsars represent an evolutionarily distinct group among rotation-powered pulsars. Outside the radio band, the soft X-ray range ($\sim 0.1$--10 keV) is most suitable for studying radiative mechanisms operating in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Vyacheslav E. Zavlin

We have monitored a large sample of millisecond pulsars using the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope in order to compare their radio emission properties to the slowly rotating population. With some notable exceptions, our findings suggest…

Using archival {\it Fermi}-LAT data with a time span of $\sim12$ years, we study the population of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) in Globular Clusters (GlCs) and investigate their dependence on cluster dynamical evolution in the Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-30 Li Feng , Zhongqun Cheng , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Li , Yang Chen

Magnetic fields are fundamental to the dynamics of the interstellar medium (ISM) in spiral galaxies and are often separated into large-scale, regular ($\boldsymbol{B}$) and small-scale, random ($\boldsymbol{b}$) components. The thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 Saakshi Dhakal , Amit Seta

Fluctuations in ultralight dark matter produce significant metric perturbations, which may be detected by monitoring the arrival times of light from millisecond pulsars. While searches using this technique are already underway, they do not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jeff A. Dror , Austin Lam

We present a study of the observational properties of Millisecond Pulsars (MSPs) by way of their magnetic fields, spin periods and masses. These measurements are derived through the scenario of Accretion Induced Collapse (AIC) of white…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Taani , Y. H. Zhao , A. Moraghan

We consider the time derivatives of the period $P$ of pulsars at the Galactic Center due to variations in their orbital Doppler shifts. We show that in conjunction with a measurement of a pulsar's proper motion and its projected separation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pierre Christian , Abraham Loeb

Recent observations of the globular cluster 47 Tuc, made with the Parkes telescope at a wavelength of 20 cm, have resulted in the discovery of nine new millisecond pulsars, all in binary systems. The number of timing solutions available has…

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are rapidly advancing toward the detection of continuous gravitational waves from individual supermassive binary black holes. While it is well established that coherently utilizing the ``pulsar term" requires…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Chao-Fan Wen , Yi-Qin Chen , Shi-Yi Zhao , Hao Ding , Xingjiang Zhu

Recent advances in radio astrometry with the VLBA have resulted in near micro-arcsecond accurate trigonometric parallax and proper motion measurements for masers in star forming regions. We are now poised to directly measure the full…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-10 M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten , A. Brunthaler , G. A. Moellenbrock

We present the discovery and timing results of 15 pulsars discovered in a high Galactic latitude survey conducted with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). The survey targeted a region as close as possible to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Xin Xu , Shi Dai , Qijun Zhi , Juntao Bai , Joanna Berteaud , Francesca Calore , Maïca Clavel , Weiwei Zhu , Di Li , Rushuang Zhao , Renxin Xu , Guojun Qiao

We construct a model for the Milky Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter halo. All components are modelled as $N$-body systems with up to 8 billion equal-mass particles and integrated up to an age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Michiko S. Fujii , Jeroen Bédorf , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart

We report on a high-precision timing analysis and an astrophysical study of the binary millisecond pulsar, PSR J1909$-$3744, motivated by the accumulation of data with well improved quality over the past decade. Using 15 years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 K. Liu , L. Guillemot , A. G. Istrate , L. Shao , T. M. Tauris , N. Wex , J. Antoniadis , A. Chalumeau , I. Cognard , G. Desvignes , P. C. C. Freire , M. S. Kehl , G. Theureau

The mass of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way can be estimated by fitting analytical models to the phase-space distribution of dynamical tracers. We test this approach using realistic mock stellar halos constructed from the Aquarius…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Wenting Wang , Jiaxin Han , Andrew P. Cooper , Shaun Cole , Carlos Frenk , Ben Lowing

We use Gaia Data Release 2 to determine the mean proper motions for 150 Milky Way globular clusters (almost the entire known population), with a typical uncertainty of 0.05 mas/yr limited mainly by systematic errors. Combining them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Eugene Vasiliev

We model the phase-space of the kinematic tracers using general, smooth distribution functions to derive a conservative lower bound on the total mass within 150-200 kpc. By approximating the potential as Keplerian, the phase-space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Łukasz Bratek , Szymon Sikora , Joanna Jałocha , Marek Kutschera

We use distant Blue Horizontal Branch stars with Galactocentric distances 16 < r/kpc < 48 as kinematic tracers of the Milky Way dark halo. We model the tracer density as an oblate, power-law embedded within a spherical power-law potential.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 A. J. Deason , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans , J. H. An

The high stellar density in the central parsecs around the Galactic Centre makes it a seemingly favourable environment for finding relativistic binary pulsars. These include pulsars orbiting other neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 R. P. Eatough , P. Torne , G. Desvignes , M. Kramer , R. Karuppusamy , B. Klein , L. G. Spitler , K. J. Lee , D. J. Champion , K. Liu , R. S. Wharton , L. Rezzolla , H. Falcke

We present results of more than three decades of timing measurements of the first known binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16. Like most other pulsars, its rotational behavior over such long time scales is significantly affected by small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-08 Joel M. Weisberg , David J. Nice , Joseph H. Taylor