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most citedThe second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals

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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.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

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…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2: I. Dataset and Timing Analysis

Prerna Rana, Pratik Tarafdar, Nobleson K +44

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) employs unique features of the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to monitor dozens of the International Pulsar Timing Array (I…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Low-frequency pulse-jitter measurement with the uGMRT I : PSR J04374715

Tomonosuke Kikunaga, Shinnosuke Hisano, Neelam Dhanda Batra +22

High-precision pulsar timing observations are limited in their accuracy by the jitter noise that appears in the arrival time of pulses. Therefore, it is important to systematically…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Improving DM estimates using low-frequency scattering-broadening estimates

Jaikhomba Singha, Bhal Chandra Joshi, M. A. Krishnakumar +28

A pulsar's pulse profile gets broadened at low frequencies due to dispersion along the line of sight or due to multi-path propagation. The dynamic nature of the interstellar medium…

astro-ph.HE2023

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1k cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 111 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 76 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 20 cited

Gravitational Waves from Black-Hole Encounters: Prospects for Ground- and Galaxy-Based Observatories

Subhajit Dandapat, Michael Ebersold, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +6

Close hyperbolic encounters of black holes (BHs) generate certain Burst With Memory (BWM) events in the frequency windows of the operational, planned, and proposed gravitational wa…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Multi-band Extension of the Wideband Timing Technique

Avinash Kumar Paladi, Churchil Dwivedi, Prerna Rana +27

The wideband timing technique enables the high-precision simultaneous estimation of pulsar Times of Arrival (ToAs) and Dispersion Measures (DMs) while effectively modeling frequenc…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 15 cited

Noise analysis of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array data release I

Aman Srivastava, Shantanu Desai, Neel Kolhe +28

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaboration has recently made its first official data release (DR1) for a sample of 14 pulsars using 3.5 years of uGMRT observations. We pr…

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

Eccentric equatorial trajectories around a Kerr black hole as a QPO model for M82X-1

Prerna Rana, A. Mangalam

We study the bound orbit conditions for equatorial and eccentric orbits around a Kerr black hole both in the parameter space (, , ) representing the energy, angular moment…

gr-qc2022★ 2 cited

Bound orbit domains in the phase space of the Kerr geometry

Prerna Rana, A. Mangalam

We derive the conditions for a non-equatorial eccentric bound orbit to exist around a Kerr black hole in two-parameter spaces: the energy, angular momentum of the test particle, sp…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 82 cited

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array: First data release

Pratik Tarafdar, Nobleson K., Prerna Rana +35

We present the pulse arrival times and high-precision dispersion measure estimates for 14 millisecond pulsars observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz and 1260-1460 MHz frequency…

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.HE2020★ 11 cited

A geometric origin for quasi-periodic oscillations in black hole X-ray binaries

Prerna Rana, A. Mangalam

We expand the relativistic precession model to include nonequatorial and eccentric trajectories and apply it to quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole X-ray binaries (BHX…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 4 cited

A relativistic orbit model for temporal properties of AGN

Prerna Rana, A. Mangalam

We present a unified model for X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies, -ray and optical band QPOs that are seen in Blazars. The…

gr-qc2019★ 49 cited

Astrophysically relevant bound trajectories around a Kerr black hole

Prerna Rana, A. Mangalam

We derive alternate and new closed-form analytic solutions for the non-equatorial eccentric bound trajectories, , $\ t \left( r, θ\right),\ r \left( θ\right…