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astro-ph.HE2025

Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems

Jackson D. Taylor, Emmanuel Fonseca, Lankeswar Dey +50

Trojan asteroids are found in the equilateral triangle Lagrange points of the Sun-Jupiter system in great number, though they also exist less prolifically in other parts of the Sol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries

Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 380 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

The NANOGrav 15-year data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low-frequency gr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 159 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +96

Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background has recently been reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a bac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 801 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +120

The 15-year pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-freque…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +88

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors. Each individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long path,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

Gabriella Agazie, Md Faisal Alam, Akash Anumarlapudi +97

We present observations and timing analyses of 68 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) comprising the 15-year data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NA…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.5k cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67 pulsars from the 15-year pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz O…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 79 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: VI. Challenging the ultralight dark matter paradigm

Clemente Smarra, Boris Goncharov, Enrico Barausse +68

Pulsar Timing Array experiments probe the presence of possible scalar or pseudoscalar ultralight dark matter particles through decade-long timing of an ensemble of galactic millise…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 41 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Methods

Aaron D. Johnson, Patrick M. Meyers, Paul T. Baker +93

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use an array of millisecond pulsars to search for gravitational waves in the nanohertz regime in pulse time of arrival data. This paper presents rigorou…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Discovery and Timing of Millisecond Pulsars with the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift-Scan Survey

Evan F. Lewis, Timothy E. E. Olszanski, Julia S. Deneva +6

We present the discovery and timing solutions of four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift-Scan Pulsar Survey. Three of these pulsars are in binary sy…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

Pulsar Emission Beam Geometry of Radio Broadband Arecibo Sources

Timothy Olszanski, Joanna Rankin, Arun Venkataraman +1

We present radio pulsar emission beam analyses and models with the primary intent of examining pulsar beam geometry and physics over the broadest band of radio frequencies reasonab…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy during the SKA Era: An InPTA perspective

Bhal Chandra Joshi, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Arul Pandian +34

Decades long monitoring of millisecond pulsars, which exhibit highly stable rotational periods, in pulsar timing array experiments is on the threshold of discovering nanohertz stoc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

A Parkes "Murriyang" Search for Pulsars and Transients in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Shinnosuke Hisano, Fronefield Crawford, Victoria Bonidie +6

We report on the latest results of a Parkes multibeam survey for pulsars and dispersed radio bursts in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We conducted both periodicity and single-pu…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 344 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic Gravitational Wave Background

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak +123

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decad…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 53 cited

Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search

A. Chalumeau, S. Babak, A. Petiteau +49

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration has recently released an extended data set for six pulsars (DR2) and reported evidence for a common red noise signal. Here we…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Search for fast radio transients using Arecibo drift-scan observations at 1.4 GHz

B. B. P. Perera, A. J. Smith, S. Vaddi +12

We conducted a drift-scan observation campaign using the 305-m Arecibo telescope in January and March 2020 when the observatory was temporarily closed during the intense earthquake…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 282 cited

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: Inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search

S. Chen, R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo +49

We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from th…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 35 cited

Evidence for profile changes in PSR J1713+0747 using the uGMRT

Jaikhomba Singha, Mayuresh P Surnis, Bhal Chandra Joshi +29

PSR J1713+0747 is one of the most precisely timed pulsars in the international pulsar timing array experiment. This pulsar showed an abrupt profile shape change between April 16, 2…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

Study of 72 pulsars discovered in the PALFA survey: Timing analysis, glitch activity, emission variability, and a pulsar in an eccentric binary

E. Parent, H. Sewalls, P. C. C. Freire +31

We present new discoveries and results from long-term timing of 72 pulsars discovered in the Arecibo PALFA survey, including precise determination of astrometric and spin parameter…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 11 cited

Multi-frequency study of the peculiar pulsars PSR B0919+06 and PSR B1859+07

K. M. Rajwade, B. B. P. Perera, B. W. Stappers +3

Since their discovery more than 50 years ago, broadband radio studies of pulsars have generated a wealth of information about the underlying physics of radio emission. In order to…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 18 cited

Radio Detection of PSR J1813-1749 in HESS J1813-178: The Most Scattered Pulsar Known

F. Camilo, S. M. Ransom, J. P. Halpern +1

The 44.7 ms X-ray pulsar in the supernova remnant G12.82-0.02/HESS J1813-178 has the second highest spin-down luminosity of known pulsars in the Galaxy, with E-dot=5.6e37 erg/s. Us…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 38 cited

Multi-frequency observations of SGR J1935+2154

M. Bailes, C. G. Bassa, G. Bernardi +54

Magnetars are a promising candidate for the origin of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The detection of an extremely luminous radio burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR J1935+2154 on 2020…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

High Precision Measurements of Interstellar Dispersion Measure with the upgraded GMRT

M. A. Krishnakumar, P. K. Manoharan, Bhal Chandra Joshi +19

Pulsar radio emission undergoes dispersion due to the presence of free electrons in the interstellar medium (ISM). The dispersive delay in the arrival time of pulsar signal changes…