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Recent evidence for the stochastic gravitational wave backgorund reported by the pulsar timing arrays (PTA) can be interpreted as a signal from the cosmological phase transition. We use up-to-date models of the gravitational wave power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 T. Boyer , A. Neronov

Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

The measurement of the Shapiro time delay in binary pulsar systems with highly inclined orbit can be affected both by the motion of the pulsar's companion because of the finite time it takes a photon to cross the binary, and by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman R. Rafikov , Dong Lai

We present updated analyses of pulse profiles and their arrival-times from PSR B1534+12, a 37.9-ms radio pulsar in orbit with another neutron star. A high-precision timing model is derived from twenty-two years of timing data, and accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Fonseca , I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett

Pulsars are unique astrophysical laboratories because of their clock-like timing precision, providing new ways to test general relativity and detect gravitational waves. One impediment to high-precision pulsar timing experiments is timing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rachel Rosen , Maura A. McLaughlin , Susan E. Thompson

We study statistical properties of stochastic variations in pulse arrival times, timing noise, in radio pulsars using a new analysis method applied in the time domain. The method proceeds in two steps. First, we subtract low-frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Steve Price , Bennett Link , Steve Shore , David Nice

There is limited information about the interaction strength of a scalar dark matter candidate with hadrons and leptons for a scalar particle mass exceeding $10^{-3}$ eV while its interaction with photon is well studied. The scalar-photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-05 V. V. Flambaum , I. B. Samsonov

We report on 12 years of observations of PSR J1713+0747, a pulsar in a 68-day orbit with a white dwarf. Pulse times of arrival were measured with uncertainties as small as 200 ns. The timing data yielded measurements of the relativistic…

We study the pulsar timing, focusing on the time delay induced by the gravitational field of the binary systems. In particular, we study the gravito-magnetic correction to the Shapiro time delay in terms of Keplerian and post-Keplerian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Matteo Luca Ruggiero , Angelo Tartaglia

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

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo collaborations recently detected a gravitational wave event, GW230529\_181500, during the fourth observing run, which is most plausibly attributed to the merger of a neutron star and a black hole. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Baoxiang Wang , Tao Yang

We present a study of the gravitational time delay of arrival of signals from binary pulsar systems with rotating black hole companions. In particular, we investigate the strength of this effect (Shapiro delay) as a function of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pablo Laguna , Alex Wolszczan

The presence of a companion wind in neutron star binary systems can form a contact discontinuity well within the pulsar's light cylinder, effectively creating a waveguide that confines the pulsar's electromagnetic fields and significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-09 Yici Zhong , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jens F. Mahlmann , Hayk Hakobyan

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

We report the discovery of PSR J1757$-$1854, a 21.5-ms pulsar in a highly-eccentric, 4.4-h orbit around a neutron star (NS) companion. PSR J1757$-$1854 exhibits some of the most extreme relativistic parameters of any known pulsar, including…

We consider a disformal coupling between Standard Model matter and a cubic Galileon scalar sector, assumed to be a relict of some other physics that solves the cosmological constant problem rather than a solution in its own right. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-11 Michaela G. Lawrence , David Seery , Christian T. Byrnes

We investigate the cross-correlation between astrometric and timing-residual observables for distant sources, such as pulsars and galaxies, and equivalent observables for nearby solar system bodies. Using the unified spin-weighted formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Elias Fink , Carlo Contaldi , Giorgio Mentasti

Scalar dark matter is a viable alternative to particle dark matter models such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPS). This is particularly the case for scalars with a low mass $m \gtrsim 10^{-21} {\rm eV}$ as required to make…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Ultralight scalars with electrophilic couplings to the time-dependent Goldreich-Julian charge density of magnetized compact stars can be radiated from their magnetospheres, contributing to pulsar spin-down. Coupling to the time-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-05 Tanmay kumar Poddar , Gaetano Lambiase

The quasi-periodic feature of 1-10 years exhibited in pulsar timing noise has not been well understood since 1980. The recently demonstrated correlation between timing noise and variation of pulse profile motivates us to further investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-27 B. P. Gong , Y. P. Li