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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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40 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing Variations in Earth's Ionosphere Using Pulsars

Yanqing Cai, Ziwei Wu, Weiwei Zhu +24

We present high cadence 10-minute rotation measure (RM) monitoring of PSR~J0814+7429 using the LOw-Frequency ARray, aiming to probe ionospheric variability along the pulsar line of…

astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring the Galactic plasma with pulsars in the SKA Era

Caterina Tiburzi, M. T. Lam, D. J. Reardon +17

The ionised media that permeate the Milky Way have been active topics of research since the discovery of pulsars in 1967. In fact, pulsars allow one to study several aspects of sai…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Exploring Galactic plasma with pulsars in the SKA era

C. Tiburzi, M. T. Lam, D. J. Reardon +14

The ionised media that permeate the Milky Way have been active topics of research since the discovery of pulsars in 1967. In fact, pulsars allow one to study several aspects of sai…

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.IM2025★ 4 cited

Pulsar timing and polarimetry: results and perspectives

Konstantin A. Postnov, Nataliya K. Porayko, Maxim S. Pshirkov

Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagne…

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.CO2024

Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the European Pulsar Timing Array

N. K. Porayko, P. Usynina, J. Terol-Calvo +74

Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an…

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★ 5 cited

Impact of the observation frequency coverage on the significance of a gravitational wave background detection in PTA data

Irene Ferranti, Mikel Falxa, Alberto Sesana +8

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations gather high-precision timing measurements of pulsars with the aim of detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals. A major challenge lies in t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Periodicity search in the timing of the 25 millisecond pulsars from the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array

Iuliana Nitu, Michael Keith, David Champion +17

In this work, we investigated the presence of strictly periodic, as well as quasi-periodic signals, in the timing of the 25 millisecond pulsars from the EPTA DR2 dataset. This is e…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

Status Report on Global Pulsar-Timing-Array Efforts to Detect Gravitational Waves

Joris P. W. Verbiest, Sarah J. Vigeland, Nataliya K. Porayko +2

The stability of the spin of pulsars and the precision with which these spins can be determined, allows many unique tests of interest to physics and astrophysics. Perhaps the most…

astro-ph.HE2024

A Gaussian-processes approach to fitting for time-variable spherical solar wind in pulsar timing data

Iuliana C. Niţu, Michael J. Keith, Caterina Tiburzi +26

Propagation effects are one of the main sources of noise in high-precision pulsar timing. For pulsars below an ecliptic latitude of , the ionised plasma in the solar wind…

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

Periodic interstellar scintillation variations of PSRs~J06130200 and J0636+5128 associated with the Local Bubble shell

Yulan Liu, Robert A. Main, Joris P. W. Verbiest +11

Annual variations of interstellar scintillation can be modelled to constrain parameters of the ionized interstellar medium. If a pulsar is in a binary system, then investigating th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 320 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I. The dataset and timing analysis

J. Antoniadis, S. Babak, A. -S. Bak Nielsen +66

Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1 - 100 nanohertz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trac…

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★ 76 cited

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

M. Falxa, S. Babak, P. T. Baker +123

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wa…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Pulsar Scintillation Studies with LOFAR: II. Dual-frequency scattering study of PSR J0826+2637 with LOFAR and NenuFAR

Ziwei Wu, William A. Coles, Joris P. W. Verbiest +28

Interstellar scattering (ISS) of radio pulsar emission can be used as a probe of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) and causes corruptions in pulsar timing experiments. Two typ…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 29 cited

Quality over Quantity: Optimizing pulsar timing array analysis for stochastic and continuous gravitational wave signals

Lorenzo Speri, Nataliya K. Porayko, Mikel Falxa +4

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars ar…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

Gravitational signal propagation in the Double Pulsar studied with the MeerKAT telescope

H. Hu, M. Kramer, D. J. Champion +16

The Double Pulsar, PSR J0737-3039A/B, has offered a wealth of gravitational experiments in the strong-field regime, all of which GR has passed with flying colours. In particular, a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

Pulsar scintillation studies with LOFAR. I. The census

Ziwei Wu, Joris P. W. Verbiest, Robert A. Main +13

Context. Interstellar scintillation (ISS) of pulsar emission can be used both as a probe of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) and cause corruptions in pulsar timing experiment…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 344 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic Gravitational Wave Background

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak +123

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decad…