activity
20242026
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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Interplanetary scintillation-informed heliospheric modelling for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array 4.5 yr dataset

Saurav Mishra, Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic +9

Heliospheric density variations impart delays on pulse times of arrivals from millisecond pulsars. Improper modelling of these variations may affect gravitational wave detection an…

astro-ph.HE2026

A fast radio burst cyclone in technicolour: evidence of plasma lensing

Pavan A. Uttarkar, Ryan M. Shannon, Kelly Gourdji +9

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, energetic, radio pulses of extragalactic origin. A dichotomy has emerged in the population: some produce repeat bursts, while the majority do n…

gr-qc2025

Choosing suitable noise models for nanohertz gravitational-wave astrophysics

Valentina Di Marco, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +2

Accurately estimating the parameters of the nanohertz gravitational-wave background is essential for understanding its origin. The background is typically modeled with a power-law…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

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…