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We present a novel semicoherent targeted search method for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emitted by pulsars in binary systems. The method is based on a custom optimization of the coherence time, which is tailored according to the…

Matched-filter based gravitational-wave search pipelines identify candidate events within seconds of their arrival on Earth, offering a chance to guide electromagnetic follow-up and observe multi-messenger events. Understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Ryan Magee , Richard George , Alvin Li , Ritwik Sharma

A search was carried out for pulsars with periods (P) from 2 to 90 s in daily observations carried out over an interval of 5 years in a area measuring 6300 sq.deg. The data was obtained on a Large Phased Array (LPA) at a frequency of 111…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 S. A. Tyul'bashev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

Ray tracing algorithms that compute pulse profiles from rotating neutron stars are essential tools for constraining neutron-star properties with data from missions such as NICER. However, the high computational cost of these simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Preston G. Waldrop , Dimitrios Psaltis , Tong Zhao

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

Pulsar acceleration searches are methods for recovering signals from radio telescopes, that may otherwise be lost due to the effect of orbital acceleration in binary systems. The vast amount of data that will be produced by next generation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-25 Sofia Dimoudi , Wesley Armour

The first all-sky-all-frequency (ASAF) radiometer search was conducted using data from the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The significance of this search lies in its fast and unmodeled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Arindam Sharma , Deepali Agarwal , Sanjit Mitra

Observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at low radio frequencies play an important role in understanding the Galactic pulsar population and characterising both their emission properties and the effects of the ionised interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 C. P. Lee , N. D. R. Bhat , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , W. van Straten , C. M. Tan , M. Xue , N. A. Swainston , S. M. Ord , G. Sleap , S. E. Tremblay , A. Williams

We provide brief notes on a particle swarm-optimisation approach to constraining the properties of a stochastic gravitational-wave background in the first International Pulsar Timing Array data-challenge. The technique employs many…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-15 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , L. Lentati

Searching for extraterrestrial, transient signals in astronomical data sets is an active area of current research. However, machine learning techniques are lacking in the literature concerning single-pulse detection. This paper presents a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Thomas Devine , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Maura McLaughlin

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for probing the internal structure and evolution of galaxies, the nature of dark matter, and the expansion history of the Universe, among many other scientific applications. For almost all of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Anowar J. Shajib , Nafis Sadik Nihal , Chin Yi Tan , Vedant Sahu , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu , Joshua Frieman

We report on the results of an image-based search for pulsar candidates toward the Galactic bulge. We used mosaic images from the MeerKAT radio telescope, that were taken as part of a 173 deg**2 survey of the bulge and Galactic center of…

Accurate simulation of pulsar flux variability is critical for testing Square Kilometre Array (SKA) interferometric pipelines. However, most existing simulators neglect the effects of integration time and related observational parameters,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 X. Li , V. Stolyarov

We use recent population synthesis results to investigate the distribution of pulsars in the frequency space, having a gravitational strain high enough to be detected by the future generations of laser beam interferometers. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tania Regimbau , Jose Antonio de Freitas Pacheco

All-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves are generally model dependent and computationally costly to run. By contrast, SOAP is a model-agnostic search that rapidly returns candidate signal tracks in the time-frequency plane. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

Searches for continuous gravitational waves target nearly monochromatic gravitational wave emission from e.g. non-axysmmetric fast-spinning neutron stars. Broad surveys often require to explicitly search for a very large number of different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Benjamin Steltner , Thorben Menne , Maria Alessandra Papa , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

Globular clusters are highly efficient radio pulsar factories. These pulsars can be used as precision probes of the clusters' structure, gas content, magnetic field, and formation history; some of them are also highly interesting in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-05 J. W. T. Hessels , A. Possenti , M. Bailes , C. G. Bassa , P. C. C. Freire , D. R. Lorimer , R. Lynch , S. M. Ransom , I. H. Stairs

The Parkes Multibeam (PM) survey has found nearly 50% of the >1400 known pulsars and detected 20% of the pulsars in binary systems (75% within the survey area), few of these are millisecond pulsars with orbits of less than one day. It is…