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We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Ziyang Wang , Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Jintao Xie

We demonstrate that the sensitivity of high-precision pulsar timing experiments will be ultimately limited by the broadband intensity modulation that is intrinsic to the pulsar's stochastic radio signal. That is, as the peak flux of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-09-23 Stefan Oslowski , Willem van Straten , George Hobbs , Matthew Bailes , Paul Demorest

Modeling of frequency-dependent effects, contributed by the turbulence in the free electron density of interstellar plasma, is required to enable the detection of the expected imprints from the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background…

Analysis of high-precision timing observations of an array of approx. 20 millisecond pulsars (a so-called "timing array") may ultimately result in the detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave background. The feasibility of such a…

We investigate the impact of noise processes on high-precision pulsar timing. Our analysis focuses on the measurability of the second spin frequency derivative $\ddot{\nu}$. This $\ddot{\nu}$ can be induced by several factors including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-09 X. J. Liu , M. J. Keith , C. Bassa , B. W. Stappers

Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21-year dataset from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This dataset, which is the longest published to date for a…

Using the state-of-the-art SKA precursor, the MeerKAT radio telescope, we explore the limits to precision pulsar timing of millisecond pulsars achievable due to pulse stochasticity (jitter). We report new jitter measurements in 15 of the 29…

We present DM-power, a new method for precisely determining the dispersion measure (DM) of radio bursts, and apply it to the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) source FRB~20180916B. Motivated by the complex structure on multiple time scales seen in…

Timing of highly stable millisecond pulsars provides the possibility of independently verifying terrestrial time scales on intervals longer than a year. An ensemble pulsar time scale is constructed based on pulsar timing data obtained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Alexander Rodin , Viktoriya Fedorova

We investigate the impact of intrinsic, kinematic and gravitational effects on high precision pulsar timing. We present an analytical derivation and a numerical computation of the impact of these effects on the first and second derivative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 X. J. Liu , C. G. Bassa , B. W. Stappers

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) has recently published its second data release (DR2), comprising the timing analysis of seven years of data on 27 millisecond pulsars (MSPs), observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz (band 3) and…

Observations reveal a uniform Kolmogorov turbulence throughout the diffuse ionized interstellar medium (ISM) and supersonic turbulence preferentially located in the Galactic plane. Correspondingly, we consider the Galactic distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known as highly stable celestial clocks. Nevertheless, recent studies have revealed the unstable nature of their integrated pulse profiles, which may limit the achievable pulsar timing precision. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Liu , R. Karuppusamy , K. J. Lee , B. W. Stappers , M. Kramer , R. Smits , M. B. Purver , G. H. Janssen , D. Perrodin

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

The frequency dependence of radio pulse arrival times provides a probe of structures in the intervening media. Demorest et al. 2013 was the first to show a short-term (~100-200 days) reduction in the electron content along the line of sight…

Stochastic temporal wandering of the spin frequency $\nu$ of a rotation-powered pulsar (i.e.~the achromatic component of timing noise unrelated to interstellar propagation) affects the accuracy with which the secular braking torque can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Andrés F. Vargas , Andrew Melatos

We report the detection of an extreme flux decrease accompanied by clear dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM) variations for pulsar B1929+10 during the 110-minute radio observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jiguang Lu , Yulan Liu , Xun Shi , Jinchen Jiang , Enwei Liang , Weiyang Wang , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

Radio pulsars are often used as clocks in a wide variety of experiments. Imperfections in the clock, known as timing noise, have the potential to reduce the significance of, or even thwart e.g. the attempt to find a stochastic gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Nakornping Namkham , Phrudth Jaroenjittichai , Simon Johnston

Terrestrial timescales show instabilities due to the physical limitations of the atomic clocks. Stricter environmental isolation and increased numbers of improved cesium clocks and cavity-tuned hydrogen masers have resulted in time scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Demetrios N. Matsakis , Roger S. Foster

We present the pulse arrival times and high-precision dispersion measure estimates for 14 millisecond pulsars observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz and 1260-1460 MHz frequency bands using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…