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astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

An updated constraint for the Gravitational Wave Background from the Gamma-ray Pulsar Timing Array

Serena Valtolina, Colin J. Clark, Rutger van Haasteren +5

Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars can be used to build a pulsar timing array (PTA) experiment to search for gravitational wave (GW) signals at nanohertz frequencies. At t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Shapiro Delay Measurements from Fifteen Years of PSR J12311411 Radio Observations

H. Thankful Cromartie, Matthew Kerr, Scott M. Ransom +5

We present 15 years of Nançay and Green Bank radio telescope timing observations for PSR J12311411. This millisecond pulsar is a primary science target for the Neutron Star Inte…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

A HyperFlash and ÉCLAT view of the local environment and energetics of the repeating FRB 20240619D

O. S. Ould-Boukattine, A. J. Cooper, J. W. T. Hessels +16

Time-variable propagation effects provide a window into the local plasma environments of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) sources. Here we report high-cadence observations of FRB 2…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A fast radio burst from the first 3 billion years of the Universe

Manisha Caleb, Themiya Nanayakkara, Benjamin Stappers +25

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration signals which encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma which permeates our Universe, providing insights i…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKAT

Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers +18

Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferom…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The polarimetric response of the Nançay Radio Telescope and its impact on precision pulsar timing

Lucas Guillemot, Willem van Straten, Ismaël Cognard +3

In \citet{Guillemot2023} we presented a new method for calibrating pulsar observations conducted with the Nançay decimetric Radio Telescope (NRT), which significantly improved NRT…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

A census of galactic spider binary millisecond pulsars with the Nançay Radio Telescope

Clara Blanchard, Lucas Guillemot, Guillaume Voisin +2

Spider pulsars are systems in which a millisecond pulsar (MSP) tightly orbits (Pb 1 day) a low mass (mc 0.5 M) semi-degenerate star. Spider often disp…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Rapid Construction of Joint Pulsar Timing Array Datasets: The Lite Method

Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Paul T. Baker +41

The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)'s second data release (IPTA DR2) combines decades of observations of 65 millisecond pulsars from 7 radio telescopes. IPTA datasets shou…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Contemporaneous optical-radio observations of a fast radio burst in a close galaxy pair

K. Y. Hanmer, I. Pastor-Marazuela, J. Brink +20

We present the MeerKAT discovery and MeerLICHT contemporaneous optical observations of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 20230808F, which was found to have a dispersion measure of $\mathr…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 17 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1816

Continuous gravitational waves (CWs) emission from neutron stars carries information about their internal structure and equation of state, and it can provide tests of General Relat…

astro-ph.HE2024

The impact on astrometry by solar-wind effect in pulsar timing

K. Liu, A. Parthasarathy, M. Keith +16

Astrometry of pulsars, particularly their distances, serves as a critical input for various astrophysical experiments using pulsars. Pulsar timing is a primary approach for determi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 94 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +22

Pulsar Timing Arrays search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves by regularly observing ensembles of millisecond pulsars over many years to look for correlated timing residu…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 45 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The -year data release and the noise and stochastic signals of the millisecond pulsar population

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +21

Pulsar timing arrays are ensembles of regularly observed millisecond pulsars timed to high precision. Each pulsar in an array could be affected by a suite of noise processes, most…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Long term monitoring of FRB~20121102 with the Nançay Radio Telescope and multi-wavelength campaigns including INTEGRAL

C. Gouiffés, C. Ng, I. Cognard +12

The origin(s) of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), mysterious radio bursts coming from extragalactic distances, remains unknown. Multi-wavelength observations are arguably the only way to…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Radio and gamma-ray timing of TRAPUM L-band Fermi pulsar survey discoveries

M. Burgay, L. Nieder, C. J. Clark +18

This paper presents the results of a joint radio and gamma-ray timing campaign on the nine millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered as part of the L-band targeted survey of Fermi-LAT…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for Extended GeV Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane

S. Abdollahi, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +108

The recent detection of extended -ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Explanation of the exceptionally strong timing noise of PSR J0337+1715 by a circum-ternary planet and consequences for gravity tests

Guillaume Voisin, Ismaël Cognard, Melaine Saillenfest +6

Context: Timing of pulsar PSR J0337+1715 provides a unique opportunity to test the strong equivalence principle (SEP) with a strongly self-gravitating object. This is due to its un…

astro-ph.HE2024

Pulsar timing methods for evaluating dispersion measure time series

F. Iraci, A. Chalumeau, C. Tiburzi +9

Radio pulsars allow the study of the ionised interstellar medium and its dispersive effects, a major noise source in gravitational wave searches using pulsars. In this paper, we co…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Impact of the observation frequency coverage on the significance of a gravitational wave background detection in PTA data

Irene Ferranti, Mikel Falxa, Alberto Sesana +8

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations gather high-precision timing measurements of pulsars with the aim of detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals. A major challenge lies in t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Triple trouble with PSR J1618-3921: Mass measurements and orbital dynamics of an eccentric millisecond pulsar

K. Grunthal, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +11

PSR J1618-3921 is one of five known millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in eccentric orbits (eMPSs) located in the Galactic plane, whose formation is poorly understood. Earlier studies of t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Eighteen new fast radio bursts in the High Time Resolution Universe survey

M. Trudu, A. Possenti, M. Pilia +16

Current observational evidence reveals that fast radio bursts (FRBs) exhibit bandwidths ranging from a few dozen MHz to several GHz. Traditional FRB searches primarily employ match…

astro-ph.HE2024

Periodicity search in the timing of the 25 millisecond pulsars from the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array

Iuliana Nitu, Michael Keith, David Champion +17

In this work, we investigated the presence of strictly periodic, as well as quasi-periodic signals, in the timing of the 25 millisecond pulsars from the EPTA DR2 dataset. This is e…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 18 cited

A Nançay Radio Telescope study of the hyperactive repeating FRB 20220912A

David C. Konijn, Danté M. Hewitt, Jason W. T. Hessels +8

The repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20220912A was remarkably active in the weeks after its discovery. Here we report 696 bursts detected with the Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT)…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A study of two FRBs with low polarization fractions localized with the MeerTRAP transient buffer system

K. M. Rajwade, L. N. Driessen, E. D. Barr +19

Localisation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to arcsecond and sub-arcsecond precision maximizes their potential as cosmological probes. To that end, FRB detection instruments are deplo…