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We present the results of PSR$\pi$, a large astrometric project targeting radio pulsars using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). From our astrometric database of 60 pulsars, we have obtained parallax-based distance measurements for all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 A. T. Deller , W. M. Goss , W. F. Brisken , S. Chatterjee , J. M. Cordes , G. H. Janssen , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. J. W. Lazio , L. Petrov , B. W. Stappers , A. Lyne

The main aim is to investigate the possibility of a high frequency turn-over in the radio spectrum of pulsars. Using the GMRT, multi-frequency flux density measurements of several candidate pulsars have been carried out and their spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Kijak , Y. Gupta , K. Krzeszowski

Supermassive black hole binaries are one of the primary targets for gravitational wave searches using pulsar timing arrays. Gravitational wave signals from such systems are well represented by parametrized models, allowing the standard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-25 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Fredrick A. Jenet

In addition to fast radio burst (FRB) searches carried out using dedicated surveys, a number of radio observatories take advantage of commensal opportunities with large facilities in which observations for other projects can be searched for…

We present the results of Green Bank Telescope (GBT) observations of two pulsars discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) during the 19-beam Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Victoria A. Blackmon , Maura A. McLaughlin , De Zhao , Jianping Yuan , Qingdong Wu , Chen-Chen Miao , Meng-Yao Xue , Di Li , Wei-Wei Zhu

The behaviour of the pulsar spectrum at high radio frequencies can provide decisive information about the nature of the radio emission mechanism. We report recent observations of a selected sample of pulsars at lambda=9mm (32 GHz) with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Loehmer , A. Jessner , M. Kramer , R. Wielebinksi , O. Maron

Pulsar timing at low frequencies offers a powerful tool for studying the interstellar medium. Additionally, pulsar observations in the ecliptic enables us to study the effects of the solar wind which becomes much more prominent at low radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 S. C. Susarla , O. A. Johnson , D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. J. McCauley , J. P. W. Verbiest , C. Tiburzi , A. Golden

We report the discovery and timing of two pulsars from a sample of four circularly polarized sources identified in radio continuum images taken as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , David L. Kaplan , Emil Lenc , Akash Anumarlapudi , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Ziteng Wang , Laura Driessen , Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy

Pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) have been used to model the electron density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Galactic disk as a plane-parallel medium, despite significant scatter in the DM-distance distribution and strong evidence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-10 Stella Koch Ocker , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

Frequency metrology outperforms any other branch of metrology in accuracy (parts in $10^{-16}$) and small fluctuations ($<10^{-17}$). In turn, among celestial bodies, the rotation speed of millisecond pulsars (MSP) is by far the most stable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Siyuan Chen , Francois Vernotte , Enrico Rubiola

Pulsars with periods more than 0.4 seconds in the declination range -9o < decj < 42o and in the right ascension range 0h < r.a.< 24h were searched in parallel with the program of interplanetary scintillations monitoring of a large number of…

The measurement of the speed of gravitational waves (GWs) is useful to distinguish general relativity from massive gravity. We propose a new model-independent strategy to measure the speed of GWs with the distorted pulsars. Theoretically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Shuang Du , Fang-Kun Peng , Miao Li

We performed Monte Carlo simulations of different properties of pulsar radio emission, such as: pulsar periods, pulse-widths, inclination angles and rates of occurrence of interpulse emission (IP). We used recently available large data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-29 Krzysztof Maciesiak , Janusz Gil , Valério A. R. M. Ribeiro

Future observations with next-generation large-area radio telescopes are expected to discover radio pulsars (PSRs) closely orbiting around Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), the supermassive black hole (SMBH) dwelling at our Galactic Center (GC).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao , Fupeng Zhang

Understanding the jitter noise resulting from single-pulse phase and shape variations is important for the detection of gravitational waves using pulsar timing array. We presented measurements of jitter noise and single-pulse variability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 S. Q. Wang , N. Wang , J. B. Wang , G. Hobbs , H. Xu , B. J. Wang , S. Dai , S. J. Dang , D. Li , Y. Feng , C. M. Zhang

We present timing models for 20 millisecond pulsars in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. The precision of the parameter measurements in these models has been improved over earlier results by using longer data sets and modelling the…

The upgraded GMRT (uGMRT) with its unprecedented sensitivity and high figure of merit, is expected to result in the discovery of a large population of pulsars including pulsars of previously unknown type. In the phase-2 of the GMRT High…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Jayanta Roy

We report on the high-precision timing of 42 radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed by the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). This EPTA Data Release 1.0 extends up to mid-2014 and baselines range from 7-18 years. It forms the basis for…