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astro-ph.IM2026

Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity to Anisotropy: Empirical Sensitivity Curves, Scaling Relations, and the Multi-Resolution Pixel Basis

Taha T. Moursy, Nihan S. Pol, Gabriella Agazie +115

We quantify pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity to anisotropy in the gravitational wave background using the cross-correlation based Fisher information matrix in the pixel and sp…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem

The 2023 Windows on the Universe Workshop White Paper Working Group, T. Ahumada, J. E. Andrews +43

In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain a…

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.IM2019★ 40 cited

The NANOGrav Program for Gravitational Waves and Fundamental Physics

A. Brazier, S. Chatterjee, T. Cohen +11

We describe the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) and its efforts to directly detect and study gravitational waves and other synergistic physi…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 14 cited

The DSA-2000 -- A Radio Survey Camera

G. Hallinan, V. Ravi, S. Weinreb +25

We present the DSA-2000: a world-leading radio survey telescope and multi-messenger discovery engine for the next decade. The array will be the first true radio camera, outputting…

astro-ph.IM2019

NANOGrav Education and Outreach: Growing a Diverse and Inclusive Collaboration for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy

The NANOGrav Collaboration, P. T. Baker, H. Blumer +25

The new field of gravitational wave astrophysics requires a growing pool of students and researchers with unique, interdisciplinary skill sets. It also offers an opportunity to bui…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Cyberinfrastructure Requirements to Enhance Multi-messenger Astrophysics

Philip Chang, Gabrielle Allen, Warren Anderson +39

The identification of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave event, GW170817, and discovery of neutrinos and gamma-rays from TXS 0506+056 heralded the new era of…

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.IM2015★ 219 cited

The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Observations, Arrival Time Measurements, and Analysis of 37 Millisecond Pulsars

Z. Arzoumanian, A. Brazier, S. Burke-Spolaor +41

We present high-precision timing observations spanning up to nine years for 37 millisecond pulsars monitored with the Green Bank and Arecibo radio telescopes as part of the North A…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 21 cited

Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research

Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35

The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 2 cited

A new HDF5 based raw data model for CCAT

Reinhold Schaaf, Adam Brazier, Tim Jenness +2

CCAT will be a large sub-millimeter telescope to be built near the ALMA site in northern Chile. The telescope must support a varied set of instrumentation including large format KI…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 8 cited

An overview of the planned CCAT software system

Tim Jenness, Martin C. Shepherd, Reinhold Schaaf +7

CCAT will be a 25m diameter sub-millimeter telescope capable of operating in the 0.2 to 2.1mm wavelength range. It will be located at an altitude of 5600m on Cerro Chajnantor in no…

astro-ph.IM2014

Map-making for the Next Generation of Ground-based Submillimeter Instruments

Gaelen Marsden, Adam Brazier, Tim Jenness +2

Current ground-based submillimeter instruments (e.g. SCUBA-2, SHARC-2 and LABOCA) have hundreds to thousands of detectors, sampled at tens to hundreds of hertz, generating up to hu…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 1 cited

The CCAT Software System

Tim Jenness, Adam Brazier, Kevin Edwards +7

CCAT will be a 25-meter telescope for sub millimeter astronomy located at 5600m altitude on Cerro Chajnantor in northern Chile. CCAT will combine high sensitivity, a wide field of…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 136 cited

Searching for pulsars using image pattern recognition

W. W. Zhu, A. Berndsen, E. C. Madsen +41

In this paper, we present a novel artificial intelligence (AI) program that identifies pulsars from recent surveys using image pattern recognition with deep neural nets---the PICS…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 66 cited

The Einstein@Home search for radio pulsars and PSR J2007+2722 discovery

B. Allen, B. Knispel, J. M. Cordes +43

Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 193 countries, to search for new neutron stars using data from electromagnetic and gravitati…