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Simulation-based inference of profile evolution for high-precision pulsar timing
Sai C. Susarla, Gregory Ashton, A. Parthasarathy +2
Pulsars are exceptional cosmic laboratories, the most stable of which rival atomic clocks. Nearly all of that precision rests on one observable, the average pulse profile unique to…
Probing turbulence in the ionized interstellar medium using young pulsars. I. Dispersion measure variations
S. J. I. Melfor, A. Parthasarathy, S. Johnston +9
Temporal variations in the dispersion measure (DM) of pulsars probe fluctuations in the free-electron density of the ionized interstellar medium (IISM). While DM variations have be…
The SKAO Pulsar Timing Array
Ryan M. Shannon, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Aurélien Chalumeau +22
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are ensembles of millisecond pulsars observed for years to decades. The primary goal of PTAs is to study gravitational-wave astronomy at nanohertz frequ…
Scintillating insights into PSR~J07373039A and the interstellar plasma of the Gum Nebula from MeerKAT
J. Askew, D. J. Reardon, R. M. Shannon +8
The double pulsar system PSR~J07373039A/B has enabled some of the most precise tests of strong-field gravity to date. Here, we present a scintillation analysis of the system bas…
Combining the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array with low-frequency pulsar data
F. Iraci, A. Chalumeau, C. Tiburzi +46
Low-frequency radio data improve the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to propagation effects such as dispersion measure (DM) variations, enabling better noise characteriz…
A simple optimisation for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array
Hannah Middleton, Ryan M. Shannon, Matthew Bailes +9
The goal of the MeerKAT radio telescope's pulsar timing array programme (MPTA) is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. Evidence for such a signal wa…
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…
Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the European Pulsar Timing Array
N. K. Porayko, P. Usynina, J. Terol-Calvo +74
Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an…
The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Maps of the gravitational-wave sky with the 4.5 year data release
Kathrin Grunthal, Rowina S. Nathan, Eric Thrane +16
In an accompanying publication, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) collaboration reports tentative evidence for the presence of a stochastic gravitational-wave background, foll…
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…
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…
Bow Shock and Local Bubble Plasma Unveiled by the Scintillating Millisecond Pulsar J04374715
Daniel J. Reardon, Robert Main, Stella Koch Ocker +10
The ionized interstellar medium contains au-scale (and below) structures that scatter radio waves from pulsars, resulting in scintillation. Power spectral analysis of scintillation…
Reducing instrumental errors in Parkes Pulsar Timing Array data
Axl F. Rogers, Willem van Straten, Sergei Gulyaev +10
This paper demonstrates the impact of state-of-the-art instrumental calibration techniques on the precision of arrival times obtained from 9.6 years of observations of millisecond…
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…
The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT XIII: Timing, flux density, rotation measure and dispersion measure timeseries of 597 pulsars
M. J. Keith, S. Johnston, A. Karastergiou +9
We report here on the timing of 597 pulsars over the last four years with the MeerKAT telescope. We provide Times-of-Arrival, pulsar ephemeris files and per-epoch measurements of t…
The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey II. The eccentric double neutron star system PSR J1208-5936 and a neutron star merger rate update
M. Colom i Bernadich, V. Balakrishnan, E. Barr +16
The MMGPS-L is the most sensitive pulsar survey in the Southern Hemisphere. We present a follow-up study of one of these new discoveries, PSR J1208-5936, a 28.71-ms recycled pulsar…
Comparing recent PTA results on the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background
The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration, G. Agazie, J. Antoniadis +242
The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohert…
Rotational and radio emission properties of PSR J0738-4042 over half a century
M. E. Lower, S. Johnston, A. Karastergiou +14
We present a comprehensive study of the rotational and emission properties of PSR J07384042 using a combination of observations taken by the Deep Space Network, Hartebeesthoek,…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I. The dataset and timing analysis
J. Antoniadis, S. Babak, A. -S. Bak Nielsen +66
Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1 - 100 nanohertz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trac…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +95
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar T…
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…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +111
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and fir…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array V. Search for continuous gravitational wave signals
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +97
We present the results of a search for continuous gravitational wave signals (CGWs) in the second data release (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration. The m…
Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars
Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere, Pierre Auclair, Stanislav Babak +69
We search for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by a network of cosmic strings using six millisecond pulsars from Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pul…