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We develop a general approach to analytically calculate the perturbations $\Delta\delta\tau_\textrm{p}$ of the orbital component of the change $\delta\tau_\textrm{p}$ of the times of arrival of the pulses emitted by a binary pulsar p…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-04 Lorenzo Iorio

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

Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around $10^{-23}\text{eV}$, are promising candidates for the elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime metric in the nanohertz frequency band, which is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

The nonminimal coupling of the kinetic term to Einstein's tensor helps the implementation of inflationary models due to the gravitationally enhanced friction. We calculate the parametrized post-Newtonian (PPN) parameters for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Zhu Yi , Yungui Gong

We present timing observations of four millisecond pulsars, using data obtained over three years at the ATNF Parkes and NRAL Jodrell Bank radio telescopes. Astrometric, spin, and binary parameters are updated, and substantially improved for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. F. Bell , M. Bailes , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , F. Camilo , J. S. Sandhu

We present a general formulation to analyze the structure of slowly rotating relativistic stars in a broad class of scalar-tensor theories with disformal coupling to matter. Our approach includes theories with generalized kinetic terms,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Masato Minamitsuji , Hector O. Silva

The orbital period of the binary pulsar PSR 1913+16 has been observed to decrease at the rate of $2.40\times 10^{-12}$ s/s which agrees with the prediction of the quadropole formula for gravitational radiation to within one percent. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Subhendra Mohanty , Prafulla Kumar Panda

Pulse-to-pulse profile shape variations introduce correlations in pulsar times of arrival (TOAs) across radio frequency measured at the same observational epoch. This leads to a broadband noise in excess of radiometer noise, which is termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles , M. Bailes , M. Shamohammadi

In this paper we use Delta P = -1.772341 +/- 13.153788 s between the phenomenologically determined orbital period P_b of the PSR J0737-3039 double pulsar system and the purely Keplerian period P^(0)=2\pi\sqrt{a^3/G(m_A+m_B)} calculated with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Lorenzo Iorio , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

Gravitational waves provide us with a new window into our Universe, and have already been used to place strong constrains on the existence of light scalar fields, which are a common feature in many alternative theories of gravity. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville , Leong Khim Wong

Cosmological scalar fields coupled to the Standard Model drive temporal variations in the fundamental constants that grow with redshift, positioning the early Universe as a powerful tool to study such models. We investigate the dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Masha Baryakhtar , Olivier Simon , Zachary J. Weiner

Pulsar timing is a valuable source of high-precision astrophysical measurements which can be used to probe gravitational physics, including by detecting gravitational waves. An important factor limiting the precision of these measurements…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Ross J. Jennings , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Maura A. McLaughlin

This paper describes a comprehensive measurement model for the error budget of pulse arrival times with emphasis on intrinsic pulse jitterand plasma propagation effects (particularly interstellar scattering), which are stochastic in time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-20 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

Detailed numerical analyses of the orbital motion of a test particle around a spinning primary are performed. They aim to investigate the possibility of using the post-Keplerian (pK) corrections to the orbiter's periods (draconitic,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-02 Lorenzo Iorio , Fupeng Zhang

We present an analysis of high-precision pulsar timing data taken as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) project. We have observed 17 pulsars for a span of roughly five years using the Green…

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…

Disformally coupled, light scalar fields arise in many of the theories of dark energy and modified gravity that attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe. They have proved difficult to constrain with precision tests of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-26 Philippe Brax , Clare Burrage , Christoph Englert

Recent evidence for stochastic gravitational waves reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations might open a new window for studying cosmology and astrophysical phenomena. In addition to signals from gravitational waves, there is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Qing-Hua Zhu

We use $Planck$ 2018 data to constrain the simplest models of scalar-tensor theories characterized by a coupling to the Ricci scalar of the type $F(\sigma) R$ with $F(\sigma) = N_{pl}^2 + \xi \sigma^2$. We update our results with previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Mario Ballardini , Matteo Braglia , Fabio Finelli , Daniela Paoletti , Alexei A. Starobinsky , Caterina Umiltà