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Frequency metrology outperforms any other branch of metrology in accuracy (parts in $10^{-16}$) and small fluctuations ($<10^{-17}$). In turn, among celestial bodies, the rotation speed of millisecond pulsars (MSP) is by far the most stable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Siyuan Chen , Francois Vernotte , Enrico Rubiola

Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use sets of extremely well-timed pulsars as a Galaxy-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. P. W. Verbiest , S. Oslowski , S. Burke-Spolaor

MeerKAT imaging of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) reveals 1.28 GHz continuum emission at the locations of 20 known millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use time series and spectral imaging to investigate the image-domain characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Ian Heywood

The PSRIX backend is the primary pulsar timing instrument of the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope since early 2011. This new ROACH-based system enables bandwidths up to 500 MHz to be recorded, significantly more than what was possible with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 P. Lazarus , R. Karuppusamy , E. Graikou , R. N. Caballero , D. J. Champion , K. J. Lee , J. P. W. Verbiest , M. Kramer

High-precision measurements of the pulsar dispersion measure (DM) are possible using telescopes with low-frequency wideband receivers. We present an initial study of the application of the wideband timing technique, which can simultaneously…

Detection and study of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources is a major goal of current astrophysics. Ground-based laser-interferometer systems such as LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

We have constructed a new timescale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We used two analysis techniques with independent estimates of the…

Gravitational-wave astronomy has developed enormously over the last decade, with the first detections and continuous development across broad frequency bands. However, the decihertz range has largely been left out of this development.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Lucas M. B. Alves , Andrew G. Sullivan , Xingyu Ji , Doğa Veske , Imre Bartos , Sebastian Will , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Caterina Tiburzi

A systematic study of 80 known pulsars observed at 185 MHz has been conducted using archival incoherent-sum data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The dataset comprises 48 drift-scan observations from the MWA Voltage Capture System,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Hongyu Gong , Zhifu Gao , Zhongli Zhang , Zhigang Wen , Yujie Wang , Tao An

Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of about 100 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Matthew Kerr , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Adrien Laviron , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Thankful Cromartie , Tyler Cohen

A pulsar timing array (PTA) refers to a program of regular, high-precision timing observations of a widely distributed array of millisecond pulsars. Here we review the status of the three primary PTA projects and the joint International…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 George Hobbs , Shi Dai

The UTMOST-NS pulsar timing programme operated at the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope from April 2021 to June 2023, observing 173 pulsars with an average cadence of 50 pulsars per day. An overview of the programme is presented,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 L. Dunn , C. Flynn , M. Bailes , Y. S. C. Lee , G. Howitt , A. Melatos , V. Gupta , A. Mandlik , A. Deller

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Falxa , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , B. Bécsy , A. Chalumeau , S. Chen , Z. Chen , N. J. Cornish , L. Guillemot , J. S. Hazboun , C. M. F. Mingarelli , A. Parthasarathy , A. Petiteau , N. S. Pol , A. Sesana , S. B. Spolaor , S. R. Taylor , G. Theureau , M. Vallisneri , S. J. Vigeland , C. A. Witt , X. Zhu , J. Antoniadis , Z. Arzoumanian , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , L. Blecha , A. Brazier , P. R. Brook , N. Caballero , A. D. Cameron , J. A. Casey-Clyde , D. Champion , M. Charisi , S. Chatterjee , I. Cognard , J. M. Cordes , F. Crawford , H. T. Cromartie , K. Crowter , S. Dai , M. E. DeCesar , P. B. Demorest , G. Desvignes , T. Dolch , B. Drachler , Y. Feng , E. C. Ferrara , W. Fiore , E. Fonseca , N. Garver-Daniels , J. Glaser , B. Goncharov , D. C. Good , J. Griessmeier , Y. J. Guo , K. Gültekin , G. Hobbs , H. Hu , K. Islo , J. Jang , R. J. Jennings , A. D. Johnson , M. L. Jones , J. Kaczmarek , A. R. Kaiser , D. L. Kaplan , M. Keith , L. Z. Kelley , M. Kerr , J. S. Key , N. Laal , M. T. Lam , W. G. Lamb , T. J. W. Lazio , K. Liu , T. Liu , J. Luo , R. S. Lynch , D. R. Madison , R. Main , R. Manchester , A. McEwen , J. McKee , M. A. McLaughlin , C. Ng , D. J. Nice , S. Ocker , K. D. Olum , S. Osłowski , T. T. Pennucci , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , N. Porayko , A. Possenti , H. Quelquejay-Leclere , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , D. J. Reardon , C. J. Russell , A. Samajdar , J. Sarkissian , L. Schult , G. Shaifullah , R. M. Shannon , B. J. Shapiro-Albert , X. Siemens , J. J. Simon , M. Siwek , T. L. Smith , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , I. H. Stairs , B. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring , J. K. Swiggum , C. Tiburzi , J. Turner , A. Vecchio , J. P. W. Verbiest , H. Wahl , S. Q. Wang , J. Wang , J. Wang , Z. Wu , L. Zhang , S. Zhang

The MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey (MeerKLASS) collaboration has acquired multiple passes of L-band (856-1712 MHz) scanning observations over a 268 deg$^2$ sky region. This scanning enables efficient, large-area sky surveys by…

A number of pulsars are known to have profile evolution on timescales of months, often correlated with spin-down rate changes. Here, we present the first result from 3 years of monitoring observations from MeerKAT as part of the Thousand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 A. Basu , P. Weltevrede , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , X. Song , A. D. Cameron

We discovered four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in searches of 80 $\gamma$-ray sources conducted from 2015 to 2017 with the Murriyang radio telescope of the Parkes Observatory. We provide an overview of the survey and focus on the results of…

More than 100 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been discovered in radio observations of gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), but hundreds of pulsar-like sources remain unidentified. Here we present the first…

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…