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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

Dispersion measure (DM) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are commonly used as a indicator of distance assuming that DM in excess of the expected amount within the Milky Way in the direction of each FRB arise mostly from the inter-galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuu Niino

We present here the results from an extensive scintillation study of twenty pulsars in the dispersion measure (DM) range 3 - 35 pc cm^-3 carried out using the Ooty Radio Telescope, to investigate the distribution of ionized material in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Yashwant Gupta , A. Pramesh Rao

Precision pulsar timing can be used for a variety of astrophysical tests from the detection of gravitational waves to probing the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present analyses of the noise contributions to pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-20 Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Maura A. McLaughlin , Michael T. Lam , James M. Cordes , Joe K. Swiggum

We analyze plasma dispersion and scattering of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to identify the dominant locations of free electrons along their lines of sight and thus constrain the distances of the burst sources themselves. We establish the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-20 J. M. Cordes , R. S. Wharton , L. G. Spitler , S. Chatterjee , I. Wasserman

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations gather high-precision timing measurements of pulsars with the aim of detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals. A major challenge lies in the identification and characterization of the different…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, millisecond-duration transients that offer great potential for probing the universe, yet their physical origins remain unclear. The dispersion measure (DM) and scattering time ($\tau$) distributions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 Jian-Feng Mo , Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

If $\gamma$-ray bursts are at cosmological distances, then not only their constituent pulses but also the intervals between pulses should be time-dilated. Unlike time-dilation measures of pulse emission, intervals would appear to require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Norris , J. T. Bonnell , R. J. Nemiroff , J. D. Scargle

Radio pulsars emit regular bursts of radio radiation that propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM), the tenuous gas and plasma between the stars. Previously known dispersive properties of the ISM cause low frequency pulses to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 F. A. Jenet , D. Fleckenstein , A. Ford , A. Garcia , R. Miller , J. Rivera , K. Stovall

We present a principal component analysis method which tracks and compensates for short-timescale variability in pulsar profiles, with a goal of improving pulsar timing precision. We couple this with a fast likelihood technique for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Hsiu-Hsien Lin , Kiyoshi Masui , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson

We present temporal scattering measurements of single pulses and average profiles of PSR J1745--2900, a magnetar recently discovered only 3 arcsec away from Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), from 1.2 - 18.95 GHz using the Effelsberg 100-m Radio…

Conventional delay-Doppler (DD) communication and sensing systems require transmitting pilot frames at every channel coherence time interval in order to keep track of channel variations at the cost of spectral efficiency. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Rao Mattu , Robert Calderbank

We present initial pulsar results from the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1) obtained during the commissioning period of LWA1 and early science results. We present detections of periodic emission from 44 previously known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 K. Stovall , P. S. Ray , J. Blythe , J. Dowell , T. Eftekhari , A. Garcia , T. J. W. Lazio , M. McCrackan , F. K. Schinzel , G. B. Taylor

LOFAR offers the unique capability of observing pulsars across the 10-240 MHz frequency range with a fractional bandwidth of roughly 50%. This spectral range is well-suited for studying the frequency evolution of pulse profile morphology…

We have used sensitive LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) observations of PSR B0809+74 at 15--62 MHz to study the anomalously intensive pulses, first reported by Ulyanov et al. (2006) at 18--30MHz. Similarly to Ulyanov et al., we found that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 X. Song , V. I. Kondratiev , A. V. Bilous

We present high signal-to-noise, full polarization pulse profiles for 40 bright, 'slowly'-rotating (non-recycled) pulsars using the new Ultra-Wideband Low-frequency (UWL; 704-4032 MHz) receiver on the Parkes radio telescope. We obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 C. Sobey , S. Johnston , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , A. Parthasarathy , R. M. Shannon , P. Weltevrede

The scattering matrix $S$ linearly relates the vector of incoming waves to outgoing wave excitations, and contains an enormous amount of information about the scattering system and its connections to the scattering channels. Time delay is…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-02 Isabella L. Giovannelli , Steven M. Anlage

We study inelastic resonant scattering of a Gaussian wave packet with the parameters close to a zero of the complex scattering coefficient. We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that such near-zero scattering can result in…

Pulsar's position, proper motion and parallax are important parameters in timing equations. It is a really challenging work to fit astrometric parameters accurately through pulsar timing, especially for pulsars that show irregular timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Jie Liu , Zhen Yan , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Zhi-Peng Huang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Ya-Jun Wu , Jian-Ping Yuan , Xin-Ji Wu

Using the state-of-the-art SKA precursor, the MeerKAT radio telescope, we explore the limits to precision pulsar timing of millisecond pulsars achievable due to pulse stochasticity (jitter). We report new jitter measurements in 15 of the 29…