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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

Gravitational Waves (GWs) are tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are well poised to detect low frequency ($10^{-9}$ -- $10^{-7}$ Hz) GWs in the near future. There…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. A. Ellis , F. A. Jenet , M. A. McLaughlin

We present results and applications of high precision timing measurements of the millisecond pulsar J1012+5307. Combining our radio observations with results based on optical observations, we derive complete 3-D velocity information for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ch. Lange , F. Camilo , N. Wex , M. Kramer , D. C. Backer , A. G. Lyne , O. Doroshenko

We present radio observation of a millisecond pulsar PSR J0621+1002 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The pulsar shows periodic pulse intensity modulations for both the first and the third pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 S. Q. Wang , J. B. Wang , N. Wang , Y. Feng , S. B. Zhang , K. J. Lee , D. Li , J. G. Lu , J. T. Xie , D. J. Zhou , L. Zhang

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are searching for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) through cross-correlation of pulse arrival times from a set of radio pulsars. PTAs have relied upon a frequency-shift formula of the pulse, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Ryousuke Kubo , Kakeru Yamahira , Hideki Asada

The opening of the gravitational wave window by ground-based laser interferometers has made possible many new tests of gravity, including the first constraints on polarization. It is hoped that within the next decade pulsar timing will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Neil J. Cornish , Logan O'Beirne , Stephen R. Taylor , Nicolas Yunes

We introduce a method for performing a robust Bayesian analysis of non-Gaussianity present in pulsar timing data, simultaneously with the pulsar timing model, and additional stochastic parameters such as those describing red spin noise and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Lindley Lentati , Michael P. Hobson , Paul Alexander

In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved integrated pulse profile. We present a new method for performing…

We analyse the stochastic properties of the 49 pulsars that comprise the first International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) data release. We use Bayesian methodology, performing model selection to determine the optimal description of the…

A method for pulsar timing based on monitoring data from the 3-th diagramm of the Large Phased Array (LPA LPI) radio telescope is proposed. In our observations, recorders with quartz clock generators were used as local clocks. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-14 S. A. Andrianov , V. A. Potapov , S. A. Tyul'bashev , S. V. Logvinenko , V. V. Oreshko

Tempo2 is a new software package for the analysis of pulsar pulse times of arrival. In this paper we describe in detail the timing model used by tempo2, and discuss limitations on the attainable precision. In addition to the intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. T. Edwards , G. B. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

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

Precision timing is the key ingredient of ongoing pulsar-based gravitational wave searches and tests of general relativity using binary pulsars. The conventional approach to timing explicitly assumes that the radio emitting region is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Caroline D'Angelo , Roman R. Rafikov

We model the evolution of the magnetic fields of neutron stars as consisting of a long term power-law decay modulated by short term small amplitude oscillations. Our model predictions on the timing noise $\ddot\nu$ of neutron stars agree…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Shuang-Nan Zhang , Yi Xie

We present new timing models and update our previous ones for the rotational evolution of seven young energetic pulsars, including four of the top five in spin-down luminosity Edot among all known pulsars. For each of the six pulsars that…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) provide a way to detect gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. In this band, the most likely signals are stochastic, with a power spectrum that rises steeply at lower frequencies. Indeed, the observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Bruce Allen , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Yashwant Gupta , Maura McLaughlin , Priyamvada Natarajan , Ryan M. Shannon , Eric Thrane , Alberto Vecchio

Pulsars, especially millisecond pulsars, are intrinsically very stable celestial clocks, and their great pulse period stability open up a wide range of potential applications to astronomical phenomena, such as a natural detector for very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 Joan Jing Wang , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

The pulsar timing array systems have reported a detection of a nanohertz-band stochastic gravitational wave background in our galaxy. It is of interest to use this observation to probe modified gravity and to forecast the sensitivity with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Jonathan Grée , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

Time-correlated variations in the pulse profiles of radio pulsars provide insights into changes in their magnetospheres. For a small number of pulsars (~20), these variations have been shown to correlate with spin-down rate. Many of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 Michael J. Keith , Renée Spiewak , Andrew G. Lyne , Patrick Weltevrede , Danai Antonopoulou , Ben Stappers