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The interpretation of single-point spacecraft measurements of solar wind turbulence is complicated by the fact that the measurements are made in a frame of reference in relative motion with respect to the turbulent plasma. The Taylor…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 G. G. Howes , K. G. Klein , J. M. TenBarge

In the solar atmosphere, jets are prevalent and they are significant for the mass and energy transport. Here we conduct numerical simulations to investigate the mass and energy contributions of the recently observed high-speed jets to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Liping Yang , Jiansen He , Hardi Peter , Chuanyi Tu , Lei Zhang , Eckart Marsch , Linghua Wang , Xueshang Feng

In this paper, we analyze the probability density function (PDF) of solar wind velocity and proton density, based on generalized thermostatistics (GT) approach, comparing theoretical results with observational data. The time series analyzed…

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA) provide a powerful framework to measure low-frequency gravitational waves, but accuracy and robustness of the results are challenged by complex noise processes that must be accurately modeled. Standard PTA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Eleonora Villa , Luigi D'Amico , Aldo Barca , Fatima Modica Bittordo , Francesco Alì , Massimo Meneghetti , Luca Naso

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Since GWs are anticipated from cosmic strings, PTAs offer a viable approach to testing their existence. We present the results of the first…

Timing pulses of pulsars has proved to be a most powerful technique useful to a host of research areas in astronomy and physics. Importantly, the precision of this timing is not only affected by radiometer noise, but also by intrinsic pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 K. Liu , J. P. W. Verbiest , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , W. van Straten , J. M. Cordes

Observations of pulsars across the radio spectrum are revealing a dependence of the characteristic scattering time ($\tau$) on frequency, which is more complex than the simple power law with a theoretically predicted power law index. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-04 Marisa Geyer , Aris Karastergiou

Instabilities described by linear theory characterize an important form of wave-particle interaction in the solar wind. We diagnose unstable behavior of solar wind plasma between 0.3 and 1 au via the Nyquist criterion, applying it to fits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Mihailo M. Martinovic , Kristopher G. Klein , Tereza Durovcova , Benjamin L. Alterman

This papers searches for evidence of mass concentrations along the path of radio pulses in the IPTA survey data release. Radio pulse travel times are influenced via gravitational fields along the path from the source to the observer.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 John M. LoSecco

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal from the superposition of many inspiraling supermassive black holes with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is likely to occur within the next decade. With this detection will come the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Laura Sampson , Neil J. Cornish , Sean T. McWilliams

Numerical weather predictions (NWP) are systematically subject to errors due to the deterministic solutions used by numerical models to simulate the atmosphere. Statistical postprocessing techniques are widely used nowadays for NWP…

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

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

Aims: The aim of this work is to develop a method to systematically detect and characterise fast-time variations ($\gtrsim 1$s) in the non-thermal hard X-ray (HXR) time profiles of solar flares using high-resolution data from Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Hannah Collier , Laura A. Hayes , Andrea F. Battaglia , Louise K. Harra , Säm Krucker

The accuracy of Bayesian inference can be negatively affected by the use of inaccurate forward models. In the case of gravitational-wave inference, accurate but computationally expensive waveform models are sometimes substituted with faster…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Miaoxin Liu , Xiao-Dong Li , Alvin J. K. Chua

Analysis of the Interball-1 spacecraft data (1995-2000) has shown that the solar wind ion flux sometimes increases or decreases abruptly by more than 20% over a time period of several seconds or minutes. Typically, the amplitude of such…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Olga Khabarova , Georgy Zastenker

We present the results from nearly three years of monitoring of the variations in dispersion measure (DM) along the line-of-sight to 11 millisecond pulsars using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). These results demonstrate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Ujjwal Kumar , Yashwant Gupta , Willem van Straten , Stefan Oslowski , Jayanta Roy , N. D. R. Bhat , Matthew Bailes , Michael J. Keith

Radio pulsars allow the study of the ionised interstellar medium and its dispersive effects, a major noise source in gravitational wave searches using pulsars. In this paper, we compare the functionality and reliability of three commonly…

A new probabilistic post-processing method for wind vectors is presented in a distributional regression framework employing the bivariate Gaussian distribution. In contrast to previous studies all parameters of the distribution are…

Applications · Statistics 2019-07-26 Moritz N. Lang , Georg J. Mayr , Reto Stauffer , Achim Zeileis

Renewable energy sources provide a constantly increasing contribution to the total energy production worldwide. However, the power generation from these sources is highly variable due to their dependence on meteorological conditions.…

Applications · Statistics 2019-03-05 Thordis Thorarinsdottir , Anders Løland , Alex Lenkoski