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Vela is a package for performing Bayesian pulsar timing & noise analysis written in Julia and Python. In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, simultaneous time of arrival and dispersion measure measurements are derived from a radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Abhimanyu Susobhanan

A new Bayesian software package for the analysis of pulsar timing data is presented in the form of TempoNest which allows for the robust determination of the non-linear pulsar timing solution simultaneously with a range of additional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-04 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson , Farhan Feroz , Rutger van Haasteren , Kejia Lee , Ryan M. Shannon

Here we present a Bayesian method of including discrete measurements of dispersion measure due to the interstellar medium in the direction of a pulsar as prior information in the analysis of that pulsar. We use a simple simulation to show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson

Pulsars show two classes of rotational irregularities that can be used to understand neutron-star interiors and magnetospheres: glitches and timing noise. Here we present an analysis of the Vela pulsar spanning nearly 21 yr of observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 R. M. Shannon , L. T. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Johnston , G. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

The Vela pulsar is among a number of pulsars which show detectable optical pulsations. We performed optical observations of this pulsar in January and December 2009 with the Iqueye instrument mounted at the ESO 3.5 m New Technology…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 A. Spolon , L. Zampieri , A. Burtovoi , G. Naletto , C. Barbieri , M. Barbieri , A. Patruno , E. Verroi

The extremely regular, periodic radio emission from millisecond pulsars makes them useful tools for studying neutron star astrophysics, general relativity, and low-frequency gravitational waves. These studies require that the observed pulse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sarah J. Vigeland , Michele Vallisneri

We study individual pulses of Vela (PSR\ B0833-45\,/\,J0835-4510) from daily observations of over three hours (around 120,000 pulses per observation), performed simultaneously with the two radio telescopes at the Argentine Institute of…

The modeling of intrinsic noise in pulsar timing residual data is of crucial importance for Gravitational Wave (GW) detection and pulsar timing (astro)physics in general. The noise budget in pulsars is a collection of several well studied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Justin Ellis , Neil Cornish

HarmonicBalance.jl is a publicly available Julia package designed to simplify and solve systems of periodic time-dependent nonlinear ordinary differential equations. Time dependence of the system parameters is treated with the harmonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jan Košata , Javier del Pino , Toni L. Heugel , Oded Zilberberg

A careful characterisation of the noise processes in pulsar timing data is a prerequisite for pulsar timing array experiments. While single-pulsar noise analyses are crucial for both gravitational-wave searches and astrophysical studies,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Valentina Di Marco , Nir Guttman , Matthew T. Miles , Andrew Zic , Ryan M. Shannon , Eric Thrane

In this project, we have implemented our basic understanding of Pulsar Astronomy to calculate the Time Period of Vela Pulsar. Our choice of pulsar rests on the fact that it is the brightest object in the high-energy gamma-ray sky. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Shreyan Goswami , Hershini Gadaria , Sreejita Das , Midhun Goutham , Kamlesh N. Pathak

We report on the first detection of pulsed radio emission from a radio pulsar with the ALMA telescope. The detection was made in the Band-3 frequency range (85-101 GHz) using ALMA in the phased-array mode developed for VLBI observations. A…

We describe time-tagged observations of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45) with the HST STIS MAMA-UV detectors. Using an optimal extraction technique, we obtain a NUV light curve and crude FUV phase-resolved spectra. The pulse is dominated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roger W. Romani , Oleg Kargaltsev , George G. Pavlov

A new Bayesian method for the analysis of folded pulsar timing data is presented that allows for the simultaneous evaluation of evolution in the pulse profile in either frequency or time, along with the timing model and additional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 L Lentati , P. Alexander , M. P. Hobson

Pulsar timing at the Mt Pleasant observatory has focused on Vela, which can be tracked for 18 hours of the day. These nearly continuous timing records extend over 24 years allowing a greater insight into details of timing noise, micro…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard Dodson , Dion Lewis , Peter McCulloch

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

Contemporary pulsar timing experiments have reached a sensitivity level where systematic errors introduced by existing analysis procedures are limiting the achievable science. We have developed tempo2, a new pulsar timing package that…

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

We present the development of pyLLE, a freely accessible and cross-platform Lugiato-Lefever equation solver programmed in Python and Julia and optimized for the simulation of microresonator frequency combs. Examples illustrating its…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Gregory Moille , Qing Li , Xiyuan Lu , Kartik Srinivasan

Using Bayesian analyses we study the solar electron density with the NANOGrav 11-year pulsar timing array (PTA) dataset. Our model of the solar wind is incorporated into a global fit starting from pulse times-of-arrival. We introduce new…

In this work we review the application of the theory of Gaussian processes to the modeling of noise in pulsar-timing data analysis, and we derive various useful and optimized representations for the likelihood expressions that are needed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Rutger van Haasteren , Michele Vallisneri
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