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most citedThe MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release

105 citations · 327 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Not just a phase: detecting nanohertz gravitational waves from phase alone

Kathrin Grunthal, Eric Thrane, Rutger van Haasteren +2

Unambiguously detecting a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in pulsar-timing data requires a robust detection statistic. The pulsar timing community currently relies heavily on t…

astro-ph.HE2026

The first MeerKAT S-band globular cluster pulsar survey

Rouhin Nag, Marta Burgay, Alessandro Ridolfi +19

Globular clusters are efficient factories of recycled pulsars, but searches toward high-dispersion-measure (DM) clusters can be strongly limited near 1 GHz by dispersive smearing a…

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 joint MeerKAT and Parkes view of Omega Centauri: New TRAPUM Searches and Pulsar Timing

Miquel Colom i Bernadich, Shi Dai, Federico Abbate +27

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are powerful probes of globular clusters (GCs), tracing stellar evolution, cluster dynamics, and the local gravitational potential. We investigate the MS…

astro-ph.IM2026

Optimising gravitational-wave sky maps for pulsar timing arrays

Kathrin Grunthal, David J. Champion, Eric Thrane +3

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have recently reported compelling evidence for the presence of a gravitational-wave background signal. Mapping the gravitational-wave background is key…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The role of distant pulsars in the detectability of continuous gravitational waves

Kathrin Grunthal, Nataliya Porayko, David J. Champion +1

One of the imminent science goals of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is the detection of a continuous gravitational wave (CGW) emitted by an individual supermassive black hole binary (…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Tackling artefacts in the timing of relativistic pulsar binaries: towards the SKA

Huanchen Hu, Nataliya K. Porayko, Willem van Straten +3

Common signal-processing approximations produce artefacts when timing pulsars in relativistic binary systems, especially edge-on systems with tight orbits, such as the Double Pulsa…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

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★ 94 cited

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★ 45 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

PSR J12276208 and its massive white dwarf companion: pulsar emission analysis, timing update and mass measurements

Miquel Colom i Bernadich, Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan, David J. Champion +6

PSR J12276208 is a 34.53-ms recycled pulsar with a massive companion. This system has long been suspected to belong to the emerging class of massive recycled pulsar-ONeMg white…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 105 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Matthew Bailes +15

We present the first 2.5 years of data from the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA), part of MeerTime, a MeerKAT Large Survey Project. The MPTA aims to precisely measure pulse arriv…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 58 cited

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT XI: Application of the rotating vector model

Simon Johnston, Michael Kramer, Aris Karastergiou +4

In spite of the rich phenomenology of the polarization properties of radio pulsars, the rotating vector model (RVM) created 50 years ago remains the best method to determine the be…