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astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Modified Functional Forms for Profile-Evolution Time Delays in Pulsar Timing Models

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Olivia West +49

Radio pulsars exhibit frequency-dependent variations in the shape of their pulse profiles that introduce systematic delays in the observed pulse times of arrival (TOA) across an ob…

astro-ph.HE2026

Optimal Pulsar Timing Array Strategies with the Deep Synoptic Array

Tyler Cohen, Paul B. Demorest, Jeremy G. Baier +50

Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have seen evidence for a nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) through coordinated radio timing observations of millisecond…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Lack of Resolvable Sources in the NANOGrav 15-yr Dataset

Emiko C. Gardiner, Kayhan Gültekin, Philippe Turgeon +116

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have found evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), but have not yet…

astro-ph.HE2026

Generalized Non-linear Bayesian Pulsar Timing with Enterprise

Andrew R. Kaiser, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Maura A. McLaughlin +56

In this study, we use the Bayesian methods in the Enterprise package to examine the fully general parameterization of pulsar timing models in tandem with noise. We investigate four…

astro-ph.HE2026

Mitigating the Timing Impact of Anomalous Pulse Profile Shape Variability in PSR J1713+0747 with Gaussian Component Modeling

Shania A. Nichols, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie +31

The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) achieves sub-microsecond timing precision for several millisecond pulsars in its pulsar timing array (PT…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Customized Chromatic Noise Models

Bjorn Larsen, Jeremy G. Baier, Daniel J. Oliver +53

Pulsar timing arrays conduct low-frequency gravitational wave searches, which require comprehensive accounting of various noise sources to achieve robust results. Interstellar prop…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr and 20 yr Datasets: Timing Events and Pulse Shape Changes

Ben Jacobson-Bell, James M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee +61

The average pulse shape of a pulsar is typically stable over decadal timescales, enabling estimation of pulse times of arrival to better than a small fraction of the pulse width us…

astro-ph.HE2026

Photon-Count Statistics of Crab X-ray Pulses: Skellam Behavior and Excess Variance in the Main Pulse

Max Worchel, Margaret M. Ferris, Sasha Levina +15

The Crab pulsar (PSR B0531+21) provides an unusually rich test bed for statistical studies of high-energy photon-counting data, owing to its extreme brightness and the contrasting…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gravitational Wave Measurement of the - Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie +109

The observed GWB spectrum is higher in amplitude than model predictions by a factor of 2-3. Using a semi-analytic model, we evaluate the effect of a high-scatter supermassive black…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Piecewise Power-Law Reconstruction of the Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +108

The NANOGrav 15-year (NG15) data set provides evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal at nanohertz frequencies, which is expected to originate either from a cosmi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The SKAO Pulsar Timing Array

Ryan M. Shannon, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Aurelien Chalumeau +23

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are ensembles of millisecond pulsars observed for years to decades. The primary goal of PTAs is to study gravitational-wave astronomy at nanohertz frequ…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Improved Timing Precision With VLBI Astrometric Priors

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie +47

Accurate pulsar astrometric estimates play an essential role in almost all high-precision pulsar timing experiments. Traditional pulsar timing techniques refine these estimates by…

astro-ph.HE2025

CHIME-o-Grav: Wideband Timing of Four Millisecond Pulsars from the NANOGrav 15-yr dataset

Gabriella Agazie, David L. Kaplan, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +50

Wideband timing of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) datasets, where a single time-of-arrival (TOA) and a single dispersion measure (DM) a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems

Jackson D. Taylor, Emmanuel Fonseca, Lankeswar Dey +50

Trojan asteroids are found in the equilateral triangle Lagrange points of the Sun-Jupiter system in great number, though they also exist less prolifically in other parts of the Sol…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Inferring Mbh-Mbulge Evolution from the Gravitational Wave Background

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gultekin, Luke Kelley +104

We test the impact of an evolving supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass scaling relation (Mbh-Mbulge) on the predictions for the gravitational wave background (GWB). The observed GWB…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Targeted Searches for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Nikita Agarwal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +116

We present the first targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from 114 active galactic nuclei (AGN) that may host supermassive black hole binaries, using the NANO…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Gravitational Scattering of Pulsars by Free-Floating Objects in Interstellar Space

Lankeswar Dey, Ross J. Jennings, Jackson D. Taylor +48

Free-floating objects (FFOs) in interstellar spacerogue planets, brown dwarfs, and large asteroids that are not gravitationally bound to any starare expected to be ubiquitous…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: A Case Study for Simplified Dispersion Measure Modeling for PSR J1455-3330 and the Impact on Gravitational Wave Sensitivity

Michael T. Lam, David L. Kaplan, Gabriella Agazie +46

Evidence for a low-frequency gravitational-wave background using pulsar timing arrays has generated recent interest into its underlying contributing sources. However, multiple inve…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Rapid Construction of Joint Pulsar Timing Array Datasets: The Lite Method

Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Paul T. Baker +41

The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)'s second data release (IPTA DR2) combines decades of observations of 65 millisecond pulsars from 7 radio telescopes. IPTA datasets shou…

astro-ph.HE2024

Pulse Profile Variability of PSR J1022+1001 in NANOGrav Data

William Fiore, Maura A. McLaughlin, Gabriella Agazie +46

Pulse profile stability is a central assumption of standard pulsar timing methods. Thus, it is important for pulsar timing array experiments such as the North American Nanohertz Ob…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Harmonic Analysis of the Pulsar Angular Correlations

Gabriella Agazie, Jeremy G. Baier, Paul T. Baker +86

Pulsar timing array observations have found evidence for an isotropic gravitational wave background with the Hellings-Downs angular correlations, expected from general relativity.…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 Yr Data Set: Removing Pulsars One by One from the Pulsar Timing Array

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +102

Evidence has emerged for a stochastic signal correlated among 67 pulsars within the 15-year pulsar-timing data set compiled by the NANOGrav collaboration. Similar signals have been…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries

Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…

astro-ph.HE2024

A sensitivity curve approach to tuning a pulsar timing array in the detection era

Jeremy G. Baier, Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Joseph D. Romano

As pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) transition into the detection era of the stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB), it is important for PTA collaborations to review and possibl…