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astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey -- XVIII. The reprocessing of the HTRU-S Low Lat survey around the Galactic centre using a Fast Folding Algorithm pipeline for accelerated pulsars

J. Wongphechauxsorn, D. J. Champion, M. Bailes +18

The HTRU-S Low Latitude survey data within 1of the Galactic Centre (GC) were searched for pulsars using the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA). Unlike traditional Fast Fourier…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Improving pulsar polarization and timing measurements with the Nançay Radio Telescope

Lucas Guillemot, Ismaël Cognard, Willem van Straten +2

Accurate polarimetric calibration of the radio pulse profiles from pulsars is crucial for studying their radiation properties at these wavelengths. Inaccurate calibration can also…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 163 cited

The gravitational-wave background null hypothesis: Characterizing noise in millisecond pulsar arrival times with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +19

The noise in millisecond pulsar (MSP) timing data can include contributions from observing instruments, the interstellar medium, the solar wind, solar system ephemeris errors, and…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.2k cited

Search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +26

Pulsar timing arrays aim to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). A background of GWs modulates pulsar arrival times and manifests as a stochastic process, common t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 216 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release

Andrew Zic, Daniel J. Reardon, Agastya Kapur +31

We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" rad…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Mass measurements and 3D orbital geometry of PSR J19336211

M. Geyer, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +19

PSR J19336211 is a 3.5-ms pulsar in a 12.8-d orbit with a white dwarf (WD). Its high proper motion and low dispersion measure result in such significant interstellar scintillati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

The Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey -- II. Survey status, pulsar census, and first pulsar discoveries

N. D. R. Bhat, N. A. Swainston, S. J. McSweeney +19

In Paper I, we presented an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) survey, including the survey design and search pipeline. While the combination of MWA's large f…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

The Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey -- I. Survey design and processing pipeline

N. D. R. Bhat, N. A. Swainston, S. J. McSweeney +19

We present an overview of the Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey that exploits the MWA's large field of view and voltage capture system to survey the sky south…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 15 cited

PSR~J19105959A: A rare gravitational laboratory for testing white dwarf models

A. Corongiu, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +21

PSRJ1910-5959A (J1910A) is a binary millisecond pulsar in a 0.837 day circular orbit around a helium white dwarf (HeWD) companion. This pulsar is located 6.3 arcmin away from the c…

astro-ph.HE2023

Inference of proto-neutron star properties in core-collapse supernovae from a gravitational-wave detector network

T. Bruel, M-A. Bizouard, M. Obergaulinger +6

The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) will be a unique opportunity to study within a fully multi-messenger approach the explosion mechanism responsible for the formation…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 105 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Matthew Bailes +15

We present the first 2.5 years of data from the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA), part of MeerTime, a MeerKAT Large Survey Project. The MPTA aims to precisely measure pulse arriv…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Wideband timing of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array UWL data

Małgorzata Curyło, Timothy T. Pennucci, Matthew Bailes +14

In 2018 an ultra-wide-bandwidth low-frequency (UWL) receiver was installed on the 64-m Parkes Radio Telescope enabling observations with an instantaneous frequency coverage from 70…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

A MeerKAT look at the polarization of 47 Tucanae pulsars: magnetic field implications

F. Abbate, A. Possenti, A. Ridolfi +17

We present the polarization profiles of 22 pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae using observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope at UHF-band (544-1088 MHz) and report prec…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

Gravitational signal propagation in the Double Pulsar studied with the MeerKAT telescope

H. Hu, M. Kramer, D. J. Champion +16

The Double Pulsar, PSR J0737-3039A/B, has offered a wealth of gravitational experiments in the strong-field regime, all of which GR has passed with flying colours. In particular, a…

astro-ph.HE2022

Independent discovery of a nulling pulsar with unusual sub-pulse drifting properties with the Murchison Widefield Array

Samuel J. McSweeney, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Nicholas A. Swainston +10

We report the independent discovery of PSR J0027-1956 with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in the ongoing Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-meter (SMART) pulsar survey. J0027-1956 has…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey -- XVII. PSR J1325-6253, a low eccentricity double neutron star system from an ultra-stripped supernova

R. Sengar, V. Balakrishnan, S. Stevenson +20

The observable population of double neutron star (DNS) systems in the Milky Way allow us to understand the nature of supernovae and binary stellar evolution. Until now, all DNS sys…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Detection of frequency-dependent dispersion measure toward the millisecond pulsar PSR J2241-5236 from contemporaneous wide-band observations

Dilpreet Kaur, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Shi Dai +4

Making precise measurements of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) and applying suitable corrections for them is amongst the major challenges in high-precision timing programmes such…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 75 cited

The MeerTime Pulsar Timing Array -- A Census of Emission Properties and Timing Potential

R. Spiewak, M. Bailes, M. T. Miles +17

MeerTime is a five-year Large Survey Project to time pulsars with MeerKAT, the 64-dish South African precursor to the Square Kilometre Array. The science goals for the programme in…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

The eccentric millisecond pulsar, PSR J09556150 I: Pulse profile analysis, mass measurements and constraints on binary evolution

M. Serylak, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +17

PSR J09556150 is a member of a class of eccentric MSP+He WD systems (eMSPs), whose binary evolution is poorly understood and believed to be different to that of traditional MSP+…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 11 cited

The polarization of the drifting sub-pulses from PSR B1919+21

N. Primak, C. Tiburzi, W. van Straten +2

Aims. We aim to expand our understanding of radio wave emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere by studying the polarization of drifting sub-pulses in highly sensitive…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT III: Giant pulse characteristics of PSR J05406919

Marisa Geyer, Maciej Serylak, Federico Abbate +8

PSR J05406919 is the second-most energetic radio pulsar known and resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Like the Crab pulsar it is observed to emit giant radio pulses (GPs). We…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 19 cited

Discovery of a steep-spectrum low-luminosity pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array

N. A. Swainston, N. D. R. Bhat, M. Sokolowski +17

We report the discovery of the first new pulsar with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), PSR J00361033, a long-period (0.9 s) nonrecycled pulsar with a dispersion measure (DM)…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 36 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT -- V. Scattering analysis of single-component pulsars

L. S. Oswald, A. Karastergiou, B. Posselt +13

We have measured the scattering timescale, , and the scattering spectral index, , for 84 single-component pulsars. Observations were carried out with the MeerKAT telescope as…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

The Relativistic Binary Programme on MeerKAT: Science objectives and first results

M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, V. Venkatraman Krishnan +35

We describe the ongoing Relativistic Binary programme (RelBin), a part of the MeerTime large survey project with the MeerKAT radio telescope. RelBin is primarily focused on observa…