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Two-point super-resolution is an important problem in many signal processing applications. In this paper, we aim to establish a resolution theory for two-point super-resolution from a single snapshot. We consider a complex two-point model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Xiaole He , Ping Liu , Junling Wang

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) network is a collaboration between the five largest radio telescopes in Europe aiming to study the astrophysics of millisecond pulsars and to detect cosmological gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-04 K. Lazaridis

In high precision pulsar timing, the accurate recovery of intrinsic pulsar profiles and their associated scattering parameters is of paramount importance. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study focused on the retrieval of intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Adarsh Bathula , M. A. Krishnakumar , S. Jena

The S-shaped swing of the linear polarization position angle (PPA) observed in many pulsars can be interpreted by the rotating vector model (RVM). However, efforts to fit the RVM for a large sample of pulsars observed with the MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-17 Simon Johnston , Dipanjan Mitra , Michael Keith , Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou

The sensitivity of x-ray diffraction experiments towards Bragg peak parameters constitutes a crucial performance attribute of experimental setups. Frequently, diffraction peaks are characterized by model-free angular moment analysis, which…

Time-resolved polarisation measurements of pulsars offer an unique insight into the geometry of their emission regions. Such measure\ ments provide observational constraints on the different models proposed for the pulsar emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Paul Moran , Andy Shearer , Roberto Mignani , Agnieszka Słowikowska , Andrea De Luca , Christian. Gouiffès , Philippe Laurent

The stable rotation of young pulsars is often interrupted by two non-deterministic phenomena: glitches and red timing noise. Timing noise provides insights into plasma and nuclear physics under extreme conditions. The framework leverages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yirong Wen , Jingbo Wang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Na Wang , Yong Xia , Jing Zou

Massive binary black holes (MBBHs) in nearby galactic centers, if any, may be nano-Hertz gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect. Normally the objective GWs for PTA experiments are approximated as plane…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-04 Xiao Guo , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

We present a newly implemented single-pulse pipeline for the PALFA survey to efficiently identify single radio pulses from pulsars, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs) and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). We have conducted a sensitivity analysis of…

Pulse-to-pulse profile shape variations introduce correlations in pulsar times of arrival (TOAs) across radio frequency measured at the same observational epoch. This leads to a broadband noise in excess of radiometer noise, which is termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles , M. Bailes , M. Shamohammadi

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) can be used to detect and study gravitational waves in the nanohertz band (i.e., wavelengths of order light-years). This requires high-precision, decades-long data sets from sensitive, instrumentally stable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 NANOGrav Collaboration

The direct detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is very likely within the next decade. While the stochastic GW background is a promising candidate for detection it is also possible that single resolvable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin Ellis

Imaging of scenes using light or other wave phenomena is subject to the diffraction limit. The spatial profile of a wave propagating between a scene and the imaging system is distorted by diffraction resulting in a loss of resolution that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Ji Hyun Nam , Andreas Velten

Long-term precise timing of Galactic millisecond pulsars holds great promise for measuring the long-period (months-to-years) astrophysical gravitational waves. Several gravitational-wave observational programs, called Pulsar Timing Arrays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rutger van Haasteren , Yuri Levin , Patrick McDonald , Tingting Lu

We consider the sensitivity of the pulsar timing array (PTA) technique to specific kind of narrow-band stochastic signals in nano-Hz frequency range. Specifically, we examine the narrow-band signal produced by oscillating gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko

We identified 97 strong pulsars from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) at 1.4 GHz north of Dec(J2000) $>-40\degr$. The total flux density, linear polarization intensity and polarization angle (PA) of all pulsars are extracted from the NVSS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. L. Han , W. W. Tian

In this work we derive analytic expressions and numerical recipes for finding the effective observed position of sources close enough on sky that their Point Spread Functions (PSF), modelled as Gaussian profiles, overlap. In particularly we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zephyr Penoyre

We report on a high-precision timing analysis and an astrophysical study of the binary millisecond pulsar, PSR J1909$-$3744, motivated by the accumulation of data with well improved quality over the past decade. Using 15 years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 K. Liu , L. Guillemot , A. G. Istrate , L. Shao , T. M. Tauris , N. Wex , J. Antoniadis , A. Chalumeau , I. Cognard , G. Desvignes , P. C. C. Freire , M. S. Kehl , G. Theureau

In the nanohertz band, the spatial correlations in pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) produced by interfering gravitational waves (GWs) from multiple sources likely deviate from the traditional ones without interference under the assumption of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Yu-Mei Wu , Yan-Chen Bi , Qing-Guo Huang

In strong-field physics experiments with intense lasers, it is of paramount importance to single-shot diagnose the temporal contrast between laser pulse peak and its noise pedestal. This allows fast optimization of pulse contrast and…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-26 Jingui Ma , Peng Yuan , Xiaoping Ouyang , Jing Wang , Guoqiang Xie , Liejia Qian
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