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

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astro-ph.IM2025

Enhancing evidence estimation through informed probability density approximation

El Mehdi Zahraoui, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Avi Vajpeyi +3

We introduce the Morph approximation, a class of product approximations of probability densities that selects low-order disjoint parameter blocks by maximizing the sum of their tot…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 178 cited

The MeerKAT Telescope as a Pulsar Facility: System verification and early science results from MeerTime

M. Bailes, A. Jameson, F. Abbate +72

We describe system verification tests and early science results from the pulsar processor (PTUSE) developed for the newly-commissioned 64-dish SARAO MeerKAT radio telescope in Sout…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 127 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project: Second data release

M. Kerr, D. J. Reardon, G. Hobbs +27

We describe 14 years of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisec…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 26 cited

Spitzer + VLTI-GRAVITY Measure the Lens Mass of a Nearby Microlensing Event

Weicheng Zang, Subo Dong, Andrew Gould +24

We report the lens mass and distance measurements of the nearby microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555. We measure the microlens parallax vector using Spitzer and gro…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 229 cited

An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope

G. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, A. Dunning +69

We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver ("UWL") recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage fro…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 9 cited

The UTMOST Survey for Magnetars, Intermittent pulsars, RRATs and FRBs I: System description and overview

V. Venkatraman Krishnan, C. Flynn, W. Farah +22

We describe the ongoing `Survey for Magnetars, Intermittent pulsars, Rotating radio transients and Fast radio bursts' (SMIRF), performed using the newly refurbished UTMOST telescop…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 84 cited

The High Time Resolution Universe survey XIV: Discovery of 23 pulsars through GPU-accelerated reprocessing

V. Morello, E. D. Barr, S. Cooper +21

We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 26 cited

Observations of Low-Frequency Radio Emission from Millisecond Pulsars and Multipath Propagation in the Interstellar Medium

N. D. R. Bhat, S. E. Tremblay, F. Kirsten +23

Studying the gravitational-wave sky with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is a key science goal for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinder telescopes. With current PTAs rea…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 27 cited

Pulsar Searches with the SKA

L. Levin, W. Armour, C. Baffa +24

The Square Kilometre Array will be an amazing instrument for pulsar astronomy. While the full SKA will be sensitive enough to detect all pulsars in the Galaxy visible from Earth, a…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 21 cited

HIPSR: A Digital Signal Processor for the Parkes 21-cm Multibeam Receiver

D. C. Price, L. Staveley-Smith, M. Bailes +5

HIPSR (HI-Pulsar) is a digital signal processing system for the Parkes 21-cm Multibeam Receiver that provides larger instantaneous bandwidth, increased dynamic range, and more sign…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 13 cited

The Statistics of Radio Astronomical Polarimetry: Disjoint, Superposed, and Composite Samples

Willem van Straten, Caterina Tiburzi

A statistical framework is presented for the study of the orthogonally polarized modes of radio pulsar emission via the covariances between the Stokes parameters. To accommodate th…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 39 cited

Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) technique: A test case of the Mars Express Phobos fly-by

Dmitry A. Duev, Sergei V. Pogrebenko, Giuseppe Cimò +33

The closest ever fly-by of the Martian moon Phobos, performed by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, gives a unique opportunity to sharpen and test the Planetary R…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 23 cited

Conversion of New Zealand's 30m Telecommunication Antenna into a Radio Telescope

Lewis Woodburn, Tim Natusch, Stuart Weston +3

We describe our approach to the conversion of a former 100-foot (30-m) telecommunication antenna in New Zealand into a radio telescope. We provide the specifications of the Earth S…

astro-ph.IM2011

Intercomparison Study of Time and Frequency Transfer between VLBI and Other Techniques (GPS, ETS8(TCE), TW(DPN) and DMTD)

Hiroshi Takiguchi, Moritaka Kimura, Tetsuro Kondo +15

We carried out the intercomparison experiments between VLBI and other techniques to show the capability of VLBI time and frequency transfer by using the current geodetic VLBI techn…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 35 cited

Very High Angular Resolution Science with the Square Kilometre Array

L. E. H. Godfrey, H. Bignall, S. Tingay +7

Preliminary specifications for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) call for 25% of the total collecting area of the dish array to be located at distances greater than 180 km from the…

astro-ph.IM2011

Radio Astronomy Data Transfer and eVLBI using KAREN

Stuart Weston, Timothy Natusch, Sergei Gulyaev

Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) has been used to transfer large volumes of radio astronomical data between the Radio Astronomical Observatory at Warkworth, New…

astro-ph.IM2011

Computationally efficient algorithm for fast transients detection

Gene Soudlenkov, Vyacheslav V. Kitaev

Computationally inexpensive algorithm for detecting of dispersed transients has been developed using Cumulative Sums (CUSUM) scheme for detecting abrupt changes in statistical char…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 6 cited

First geodetic observations using new VLBI stations ASKAP-29 and WARK12M

Leonid Petrov, Chris Phillips, Tasso Tzioumis +11

We report the results of a successful 7 hour 1.4 GHz VLBI experiment using two new stations, ASKAP-29 located in Western Australia and WARK12M located on the North Island of New Ze…