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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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Localisation of the non-thermal X-ray emission of PSR~J2229+6114 from its multi-wavelength pulse profiles

J. Pétri, S. Guillot, L. Guillemot +5

Pulsars are detected over the whole electromagnetic spectrum, from radio wavelengths up to very high energies, in the GeV-TeV range. Whereas the radio emission site for young pulsa…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Chromatic Gaussian Process Noise Models for Six Pulsars

Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Jeffrey S. Hazboun +61

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). GWs induce achromatic signals in PTA data, meaning that the timing delays do not depend…

astro-ph.HE2024

Modeling non stationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis

Mikel Falxa, J. Antoniadis, D. J. Champion +16

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations recently reported evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in their datasets. The main candidate that is expected…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 13 cited

Constraints on conformal ultralight dark matter couplings from the European Pulsar Timing Array

Clemente Smarra, Adrien Kuntz, Enrico Barausse +15

Millisecond pulsars are extremely precise celestial clocks: as they rotate, the beamed radio waves emitted along the axis of their magnetic field can be detected with radio telesco…

astro-ph.HE2024

A targeted radio pulsar survey of redback candidates with MeerKAT

T. Thongmeearkom, C. J. Clark, R. P. Breton +18

Redbacks are millisecond pulsar binaries with low mass, irradiated companions. These systems have a rich phenomenology that can be used to probe binary evolution models, pulsar win…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

A 350-MHz Green Bank Telescope Survey of Unassociated Fermi LAT Sources: Discovery and Timing of Ten Millisecond Pulsars

P. Bangale, B. Bhattacharyya, F. Camilo +18

We have searched for radio pulsations towards 49 Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) 1FGL Catalog -ray sources using the Green Bank Telescope at 350 MHz. We detected 18 millisecond…

astro-ph.HE2024

A Gaussian-processes approach to fitting for time-variable spherical solar wind in pulsar timing data

Iuliana C. Niţu, Michael J. Keith, Caterina Tiburzi +26

Propagation effects are one of the main sources of noise in high-precision pulsar timing. For pulsars below an ecliptic latitude of , the ionised plasma in the solar wind…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Characterizing the Gamma-ray Emission Properties of the Globular Cluster M5 with the Fermi-LAT

X. Hou, W. Zhang, P. C. C. Freire +14

We analyzed the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904) using 15 years of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using rotation ephemerides generated from Arecibo and FAS…