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Pulsar Timing Arrays use a set of millisecond pulsars in an attempt to directly detect nanohertz gravitational waves. For this purpose, high precision timing of the pulsars is essential and ultimately a precision of the order of ~100 ns is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Lina Levin

Pulsar timing arrays are ensembles of regularly observed millisecond pulsars timed to high precision. Each pulsar in an array could be affected by a suite of noise processes, most of which are astrophysically motivated. Analysing them…

Precision pulsar timing requires optimization against measurement errors and astrophysical variance from the neutron stars themselves and the interstellar medium. We investigate optimization of arrival time precision as a function of radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-28 M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. J. W. Lazio

We describe 14 years of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisecond pulsars using the 64-m Parkes radio telescope with a…

The main goal of pulsar timing array experiments is to detect correlated signals such as nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. Pulsar timing data collected in dense monitoring campaigns can also be used to study the stars themselves,…

Modeling of frequency-dependent effects, contributed by the turbulence in the free electron density of interstellar plasma, is required to enable the detection of the expected imprints from the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background…

We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" radio telescope. The data span is up to 18 years with a typical…

The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

We demonstrate that the sensitivity of high-precision pulsar timing experiments will be ultimately limited by the broadband intensity modulation that is intrinsic to the pulsar's stochastic radio signal. That is, as the peak flux of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-23 Stefan Oslowski , Willem van Straten , George Hobbs , Matthew Bailes , Paul Demorest

Making precise measurements of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) and applying suitable corrections for them is amongst the major challenges in high-precision timing programmes such as pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). While the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Dilpreet Kaur , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Shi Dai , Samuel J. McSweeney , Ryan M. Shannon , Sanjay Kudale , Willem van Straten

Timing observations are crucial for determining the basic parameters of newly discovered pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) with the L-band 19-beam receiver covering the frequency range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 W. Q. Su , J. L. Han , P. F. Wang , J. P. Yuan , Chen Wang , D. J. Zhou , Tao Wang , Yi Yan , W. C. Jing , Z. L. Yang , N. N. Cai , Xue Chen , Jun Xu , Lang Xie , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu , X. P. You

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a sensitive survey of a strip along the Galactic plane with |b|<5 deg and l=260 deg to l=50 deg. It uses a 13-beam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope, receiving two polarisations per beam over…

To obtain the most accurate pulse arrival times from radio pulsars, it is necessary to correct or mitigate the effects of the propagation of radio waves through the warm and ionised interstellar medium. We examine both the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. M. Shannon , J. M. Cordes

High time-resolution observations of pulsars were carried out at 35 MHz, using the Gauribidanur Radio Telescope (India), to study the spectra of intrinsic pulse-to-pulse fluctuations. Our sample consists of a few bright pulsars, each of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ashish Asgekar , A. A. Deshpande

In 2018 an ultra-wide-bandwidth low-frequency (UWL) receiver was installed on the 64-m Parkes Radio Telescope enabling observations with an instantaneous frequency coverage from 704 to 4032 MHz. Here, we present the analysis of a three-year…

The first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) was used to study PSR~B0031-07 with simultaneous observations at 38 and 74~MHz. We found that 158 (0.35\%) of the observed pulses at 38~MHz and 221 (0.49\%) of the observed pulses at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Jr-Wei Tsai , John H. Simonetti , Brandon Bear , Jonathan D. Gough , Joseph R. Newton , Michael Kavic

The ionized interstellar medium disperses pulsar radio signals, resulting in a stochastic time-variable delay known as the dispersion measure (DM) noise. In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, we measure a DM together with a time of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Rutger van Haasteren