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20142025
most citedGravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes missing in pulsar observations

494 citations · 3.1k across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

The Parkes Observatory Pulsar Data Archive

Lawrence Toomey, George Hobbs, James Dempsey +3

Data from observations of pulsars made by Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes 64-metre radio-telescope over the last three decades are more accessible than ever before, largely due to thei…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Tiny-Scale Properties within the Interstellar Medium towards PSR J16444559: I. Observational Evidence of Turbulence-induced Tiny Scale Atomic Structures

Mengting Liu, Di Li, J. R. Dawson +21

We investigated HI absorption toward a single pulsar, PSR J16444559, and its variability over timescales from days to years, using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope. Our…

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★ 216 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release

Andrew Zic, Daniel J. Reardon, Agastya Kapur +31

We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" rad…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Simulating high-time resolution radio-telescope observations

Rui Luo, George Hobbs, Suk Yee Yong +10

We describe a new software package for simulating channelised, high-time resolution data streams from radio telescopes. The software simulates data from the telescope and observing…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Wideband Monitoring Observations of PSR J1803-3002A in the Globular Cluster NGC 6522

Lei Zhang, Richard N. Manchester, Andrew D. Cameron +10

We report the first wideband monitoring observations of PSR J1803-3002A, a relatively bright millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6522 with a spin period of 7.1 ms and no…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 74 cited

Precision orbital dynamics from interstellar scintillation arcs for PSR J0437-4715

Daniel J. Reardon, William A. Coles, Matthew Bailes +17

Intensity scintillations of radio pulsars are known to originate from interference between waves scattered by the electron density irregularities of interstellar plasma, often lead…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 11 cited

Applying saliency-map analysis in searches for pulsars and fast radio bursts

C. Zhang, C. Wang, G. Hobbs +9

To investigate the use of saliency-map analysis to aid in searches for transient signals, such as fast radio bursts and individual pulses from radio pulsars. We aim to demonstrate…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Parkes transient events: I. Database of single pulses, initial results and missing FRBs

S. -B. Zhang, G. Hobbs, C. J. Russell +16

A large number of observations from the Parkes 64\,m-diameter radio telescope, recorded with high time resolution, are publicly available. We have re-processed all of the observati…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 127 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project: Second data release

M. Kerr, D. J. Reardon, G. Hobbs +27

We describe 14 years of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisec…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 30 cited

Discovery of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster Omega Centauri

Shi Dai, Simon Johnston, Matthew Kerr +4

The globular cluster Omega Centauri is the most massive and luminous cluster in the Galaxy. The -ray source FL8Y J1326.74729 is coincident with the core of the cluster, leadi…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 229 cited

An ultra-wide bandwidth (704 to 4032 MHz) receiver for the Parkes radio telescope

G. Hobbs, R. N. Manchester, A. Dunning +69

We describe an ultra-wide-bandwidth, low-frequency receiver ("UWL") recently installed on the Parkes radio telescope. The receiver system provides continuous frequency coverage fro…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 98 cited

A pulsar-based timescale from the International Pulsar Timing Array

G. Hobbs, L. Guo, R. N. Caballero +56

We have constructed a new timescale, TT(IPTA16), based on observations of radio pulsars presented in the first data release from the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA). We us…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

Wide Bandwidth Observations of Pulsars C, D and J in 47 Tucanae

Lei Zhang, George Hobbs, Richard N. Manchester +13

We report the first wideband observations of pulsars C, D and J in the globular cluster 47Tucanae (NGC 104) using the Ultra-Wideband Low (UWL) receiver system recently installed on…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 20 cited

Serendipitous Discovery of PSR J1431-6328 as a Highly-Polarized Point Source with the Australian SKA Pathfinder

David Kaplan, Shi Dai, Emil Lenc +10

We identified a highly-polarized, steep-spectrum radio source in a deep image with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope at 888 MHz. After considering…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 44 cited

Commensal discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts during Parkes Pulsar Timing Array observations

S. Osłowski, R. M. Shannon, V. Ravi +25

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project monitors two dozen millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in order to undertake a variety of fundamental physics experiments using the Parkes 64m…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 23 cited

A new fast radio burst in the datasets containing the Lorimer burst

S. -B. Zhang, G. Hobbs, S. Dai +4

We report the discovery of a new fast radio burst (FRB), FRB~010312, in archival data from a 1.4\,GHz survey of the Magellanic Clouds using the multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64\…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 122 cited

Parkes Pulsar Timing Array constraints on ultralight scalar-field dark matter

Nataliya K. Porayko, Xingjiang Zhu, Yuri Levin +27

It is widely accepted that dark matter contributes about a quarter of the critical mass-energy density in our Universe. The nature of dark matter is currently unknown, with the mas…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 52 cited

Studying the solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array

R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo, K. J. Lee +77

Pulsar-timing analyses are sensitive to errors in the solar-system ephemerides (SSEs) that timing models utilise to estimate the location of the solar-system barycentre, the quasi-…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 29 cited

Comparison of Pulsar Positions from Timing and Very Long Baseline Astrometry

J. B. Wang, W. A. Coles, G. Hobbs +22

Pulsar positions can be measured with high precision using both pulsar timing methods and very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). Pulsar timing positions are referenced to a sola…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 27 cited

Wide-band Profile Domain Pulsar Timing Analysis

L. Lentati, M. Kerr, S. Dai +22

We extend profile domain pulsar timing to incorporate wide-band effects such as frequency-dependent profile evolution and broadband shape variation in the pulse profile. We also in…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 123 cited

From Spin Noise to Systematics: Stochastic Processes in the First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Release

L. Lentati, R. M. Shannon, W. A. Coles +80

We analyse the stochastic properties of the 49 pulsars that comprise the first International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) data release. We use Bayesian methodology, performing model…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 457 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release

J. P. W. Verbiest, L. Lentati, G. Hobbs +89

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro-)physical investigations. In particular arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of m…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 195 cited

Gravitational-wave cosmology across 29 decades in frequency

Paul D. Lasky, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Tristan L. Smith +24

Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field in the early Universe, amplified by inflation, produce a primordial gravitational-wave background across a broad frequency band. We…