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astro-ph.HE2026

Study of pulse jitter characteristics of PSR J1744-1134: Towards high precision pulsar timing with InPTA

Jibin Jose, Manoneeta Chakraborty, Neelam Dhanda Batra +15

Variations in the shapes of individual pulses introduce a broadband noise component in pulsar times of arrival beyond what is expected from radiometer noise, referred to as the jit…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Modified Functional Forms for Profile-Evolution Time Delays in Pulsar Timing Models

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Olivia West +49

Radio pulsars exhibit frequency-dependent variations in the shape of their pulse profiles that introduce systematic delays in the observed pulse times of arrival (TOA) across an ob…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Unified Multi-Band Secular Framework for the Hierarchical Triple PSR J0435+3233 System

Achamveedu Gopakumar, Vidit Singh, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +9

The millisecond pulsar PSR J0435+3233, discovered by FAST, exhibits an unusually large apparent spin-down rate, potentially reflecting line-of-sight acceleration from a distant com…

astro-ph.HE2026

Optimal Pulsar Timing Array Strategies with the Deep Synoptic Array

Tyler Cohen, Paul B. Demorest, Jeremy G. Baier +50

Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have seen evidence for a nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) through coordinated radio timing observations of millisecond…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Lack of Resolvable Sources in the NANOGrav 15-yr Dataset

Emiko C. Gardiner, Kayhan Gültekin, Philippe Turgeon +116

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have found evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), but have not yet…

astro-ph.HE2026

Profile Reconstruction from Temporally Stable Emission Components for Timing PSR J1713+0747

Shaswata Chowdhury, M. A. Krishnakumar, Sharika Dhakappa +26

The assumption of long-term pulse-profile stability underpins high-precision pulsar timing and forms the basis of pulsar timing array experiments. However, several millisecond puls…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2: III. Search for a Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Hemanga Tahbildar, Kunjal Vara, Mayuresh Surnis +28

We present the first independent search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array, comprising of 27 mil…

astro-ph.HE2026

QuickGWecc: Fast Bayesian pipeline for searching eccentric binaries in pulsar timing array data

Lankeswar Dey, Bence Bécsy, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +1

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) results have provided evidence for the presence of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background, most likely originating from a population of sup…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Customized Chromatic Noise Models

Bjorn Larsen, Jeremy G. Baier, Daniel J. Oliver +53

Pulsar timing arrays conduct low-frequency gravitational wave searches, which require comprehensive accounting of various noise sources to achieve robust results. Interstellar prop…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr and 20 yr Datasets: Timing Events and Pulse Shape Changes

Ben Jacobson-Bell, James M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee +61

The average pulse shape of a pulsar is typically stable over decadal timescales, enabling estimation of pulse times of arrival to better than a small fraction of the pulse width us…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gravitational Wave Measurement of the - Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie +109

The observed GWB spectrum is higher in amplitude than model predictions by a factor of 2-3. Using a semi-analytic model, we evaluate the effect of a high-scatter supermassive black…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Piecewise Power-Law Reconstruction of the Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +108

The NANOGrav 15-year (NG15) data set provides evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal at nanohertz frequencies, which is expected to originate either from a cosmi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2: II. Customised Single-Pulsar Noise Analysis and Noise Budget

K. Nobleson, Churchil Dwivedi, Shantanu Desai +33

We present the results of customised single-pulsar noise analysis of 27 millisecond pulsars from the second data release of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA-DR2). We model var…

astro-ph.HE2025

Identifying the secondary jet in the RadioAstron image of OJ~287

Mauri J. Valtonen, Lankeswar Dey, Staszek Zola +26

The 136 year long optical light curve of OJ~287 is explained by a binary black hole model where the secondary is in a 12 year orbit around the primary. Impacts of the secondary on…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Improved Timing Precision With VLBI Astrometric Priors

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie +47

Accurate pulsar astrometric estimates play an essential role in almost all high-precision pulsar timing experiments. Traditional pulsar timing techniques refine these estimates by…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Effects of Coronal Mass Ejection on PSR J1022+1001 and Possible Mode Change of PSR J2145-0750 in the InPTA DR2

Shaswata Chowdhury, M. A. Krishnakumar, Manjari Bagchi +27

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) has recently published its second data release (DR2), comprising the timing analysis of seven years of data on 27 millisecond pulsars (MSPs),…

astro-ph.HE2025

CHIME-o-Grav: Wideband Timing of Four Millisecond Pulsars from the NANOGrav 15-yr dataset

Gabriella Agazie, David L. Kaplan, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +50

Wideband timing of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) datasets, where a single time-of-arrival (TOA) and a single dispersion measure (DM) a…

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.HE2025★ 4 cited

Inferring Mbh-Mbulge Evolution from the Gravitational Wave Background

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gultekin, Luke Kelley +104

We test the impact of an evolving supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass scaling relation (Mbh-Mbulge) on the predictions for the gravitational wave background (GWB). The observed GWB…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Targeted Searches for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Nikita Agarwal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +116

We present the first targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from 114 active galactic nuclei (AGN) that may host supermassive black hole binaries, using the NANO…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Gravitational Scattering of Pulsars by Free-Floating Objects in Interstellar Space

Lankeswar Dey, Ross J. Jennings, Jackson D. Taylor +48

Free-floating objects (FFOs) in interstellar spacerogue planets, brown dwarfs, and large asteroids that are not gravitationally bound to any starare expected to be ubiquitous…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: A Case Study for Simplified Dispersion Measure Modeling for PSR J1455-3330 and the Impact on Gravitational Wave Sensitivity

Michael T. Lam, David L. Kaplan, Gabriella Agazie +46

Evidence for a low-frequency gravitational-wave background using pulsar timing arrays has generated recent interest into its underlying contributing sources. However, multiple inve…

astro-ph.HE2024

Pulse Profile Variability of PSR J1022+1001 in NANOGrav Data

William Fiore, Maura A. McLaughlin, Gabriella Agazie +46

Pulse profile stability is a central assumption of standard pulsar timing methods. Thus, it is important for pulsar timing array experiments such as the North American Nanohertz Ob…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Harmonic Analysis of the Pulsar Angular Correlations

Gabriella Agazie, Jeremy G. Baier, Paul T. Baker +86

Pulsar timing array observations have found evidence for an isotropic gravitational wave background with the Hellings-Downs angular correlations, expected from general relativity.…