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Generalized Non-linear Bayesian Pulsar Timing with Enterprise
Andrew R. Kaiser, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Maura A. McLaughlin +56
In this study, we use the Bayesian methods in the Enterprise package to examine the fully general parameterization of pulsar timing models in tandem with noise. We investigate four…
Evaluating the Fourier Approximation in Pulsar Timing Array Analysis
Yongqi Zhang, Hayden Scholz, Ken D. Olum +53
Pulsar timing arrays search for stochastic processes such as gravitational waves by comparing pulse time of arrival data for millisecond pulsars to expectations from a background w…
The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Chromatic Noise Characterization & Mitigation with Time-Domain Kernels
Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Joseph Simon, Jeremy Baier +64
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have recently entered the detection era, quickly moving beyond the goal of simply improving sensitivity at the lowest frequencies for the sake of observ…
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Probing Interstellar Turbulence and Precision Pulsar Timing with PSR J1903+0327
Abra Geiger, James M. Cordes, Michael T. Lam +33
Free electrons in the interstellar medium refract and diffract radio waves along multiple paths, resulting in angular and temporal broadening of radio pulses that limits pulsar tim…
Exploring pulsar timing precision: A comparative study of polarization calibration methods for NANOGrav data from the Green Bank Telescope
Lankeswar Dey, Maura A. McLaughlin, Haley M. Wahl +32
Pulsar timing array experiments have recently uncovered evidence for a nanohertz gravitational wave background by precisely timing an ensemble of millisecond pulsars. The next sign…
The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: A computationally efficient eccentric binary search pipeline and constraints on an eccentric supermassive binary candidate in 3C 66B
Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +85
The radio galaxy 3C 66B has been hypothesized to host a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at its center based on electromagnetic observations. Its apparent 1.05-year period an…
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…
Multi-Messenger Gravitational Wave Searches with Pulsar Timing Arrays: Application to 3C66B Using the NANOGrav 11-year Data Set
Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker, Adam Brazier +56
When galaxies merge, the supermassive black holes in their centers may form binaries and, during the process of merger, emit low-frequency gravitational radiation in the process. I…
Modeling the uncertainties of solar-system ephemerides for robust gravitational-wave searches with pulsar timing arrays
M. Vallisneri, S. R. Taylor, J. Simon +61
The regularity of pulsar emissions becomes apparent once we reference the pulses' times of arrivals to the inertial rest frame of the solar system. It follows that errors in the de…
The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Wave Memory
K. Aggarwal, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker +58
The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) promise to be incredible sources of gravitational waves (GWs). While the oscillatory part of the merger gravitational wavef…
The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: Constraints on Planetary Masses Around 45 Millisecond Pulsars
E. A. Behrens, S. M. Ransom, D. R. Madison +27
We search for extrasolar planets around millisecond pulsars using pulsar timing data and seek to determine the minimum detectable planetary masses as a function of orbital period.…
The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Evolution of Gravitational Wave Background Statistics
J. S. Hazboun, J. Simon, S. R. Taylor +60
An ensemble of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries should produce a stochastic background of very low frequency gravitational waves. This stochastic background is predicte…
The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
K. Aggarwal, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker +60
Observations indicate that nearly all galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers. When galaxies merge, their component black holes form SMBH binaries (SMBHB…
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: The Frequency Dependence of Pulse Jitter in Precision Millisecond Pulsars
M. T. Lam, M. A. McLaughlin, Z. Arzoumanian +25
Low-frequency gravitational-wave experiments require the highest timing precision from an array of the most stable millisecond pulsars. Several known sources of noise on short time…
PSR J2234+0611: A new laboratory for stellar evolution
K. Stovall, P. C. C. Freire, J. Antoniadis +30
We report timing results for PSR J2234+0611, a 3.6-ms pulsar in a 32-day, eccentric (e = 0.13) orbit with a helium white dwarf companion discovered as part of the Arecibo Observato…
Solar System Ephemerides, Pulsar Timing, Gravitational Waves, and Navigation
T. Joseph W. Lazio, S. Bhaskaran, C. Cutler +6
In-spiraling supermassive black holes should emit gravitational waves, which would produce characteristic distortions in the time of arrival residuals from millisecond pulsars. Mul…
The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: High-precision timing of 45 Millisecond Pulsars
Zaven Arzoumanian, Adam Brazier, Sarah Burke-Spolaor +53
We present high-precision timing data over time spans of up to 11 years for 45 millisecond pulsars observed as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wa…
A Second Chromatic Timing Event of Interstellar Origin toward PSR J1713+0747
M. T. Lam, J. A. Ellis, G. Grillo +34
The frequency dependence of radio pulse arrival times provides a probe of structures in the intervening media. Demorest et al. 2013 was the first to show a short-term (~100-200 day…
The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Measurement and Interpretation of Variations in Dispersion Measures
M. L. Jones, M. A. McLaughlin, M. T. Lam +21
We analyze dispersion measure (DM) variations of 37 millisecond pulsars in the 9-year NANOGrav data release and constrain the sources of these variations. Variations are significan…
The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Excess Noise in Millisecond Pulsar Arrival Times
M. T. Lam, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee +22
Gravitational wave astronomy using a pulsar timing array requires high-quality millisecond pulsars, correctable interstellar propagation delays, and high-precision measurements of…
The NANOGrav Nine-Year Data Set: Noise Budget for Pulsar Arrival Times on Intraday Timescales
M. T. Lam, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee +21
The use of pulsars as astrophysical clocks for gravitational wave experiments demands the highest possible timing precision. Pulse times of arrival (TOAs) are limited by stochastic…
Are we there yet? Time to detection of nanohertz gravitational waves based on pulsar-timing array limits
S. R. Taylor, M. Vallisneri, J. A. Ellis +3
Decade-long timing observations of arrays of millisecond pulsars have placed highly constraining upper limits on the amplitude of the nanohertz gravitational-wave stochastic signal…
The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Limits on the Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Zaven Arzoumanian, Adam Brazier, Sarah Burke-Spolaor +45
We compute upper limits on the nanohertz-frequency isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) using the 9-year data release from the North American Nanohertz Observat…
Testing Theories of Gravitation Using 21-Year Timing of Pulsar Binary J1713+0747
W. W. Zhu, I. H. Stairs, P. B. Demorest +17
We report 21-yr timing of one of the most precise pulsars: PSR J1713+0747. Its pulse times of arrival are well modeled by a comprehensive pulsar binary model including its three-di…