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20162026
most citedSearch for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

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70 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Discovery of Two Consecutive Profile Change Events in the Millisecond Pulsar PSR J0437-4715

Rami F. Mandow, Andrew Zic, J. R. Dawson +19

The closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J0437-4715, is a high-priority pulsar for precision timing experiments, including the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) proj…

astro-ph.HE2026

Evidence for the binary nature of the long-period radio transient ASKAP/DART J1832-0911

Csanád Horváth, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Ziteng Wang +2

Long-period transients are a class of periodic pulsed radio source repeating on the minute to hour timescale. Recently, an increasing number of them are being identified as binary…

astro-ph.HE2026

Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Supermassive Binary Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Yiqin Chen, Shi-Yi Zhao, Xingjiang Zhu +16

Standard continuous gravitational-wave searches with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) neglect cosmological redshift, restricting their applicability to the local Universe. We introduce…

astro-ph.IM2026

JUG: JAX-based Unified pulsar timinG

Matthew T. Miles, Stephen R. Taylor, Matthew Bailes +14

We present JUG (JAX-based Unified pulsar timinG), a JAX-based, fully independent pulsar timing package emphasising speed and ease of use, designed to confidently handle the increas…

astro-ph.SR2026

First monitoring campaign of a Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitter: the case of CU Vir

Barnali Das, Hayley Bignall, Andrew Zic +6

CU Vir, a magnetic hot star, is the first discovered Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitter (MRP) characterized by its ability to produce periodic radio pulses via electron cyclotron ma…

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.IM2026

The SKAO Pulsar Timing Array

Ryan M. Shannon, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Aurélien Chalumeau +22

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.EP2026

Upper Limits on Planet-Induced GHz Radio Emission from Inactive M Dwarfs

Jackie Villadsen, Carter Russell, Luna Guerrero +9

Nearby short-period exoplanet systems may produce detectable stellar radio emission due to sub-Alfvénic star-planet interaction (SPI), but there are no confirmed cases yet. We targ…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

Periodic Radio and X-ray Emission from an Accreting White Dwarf Binary

Kovi Rose, Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy +26

Long period radio transients (LPTs) are coherent bursts of polarised radio emission that repeat periodically on timescales of minutes to hours. Little is known about the physical o…

astro-ph.CO2026

Constraints on Ultralight Scalar and Dark Photon Dark Matter from PPTA-DR3 and EPTA-DR2

Xiao-Song Hu, Siyuan Chen, Kuo Liu +18

The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses aro…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Targeted search for eccentric supermassive binary black holes in OJ 287 and nearby galaxy clusters with PPTA DR3

Shi-Yi Zhao, Xingjiang Zhu, Jacob Cardinal Tremblay +19

We perform Bayesian targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves from eccentric supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) using the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data rel…

astro-ph.IM2026

A transdimensional sampling framework for pulsar timing noise modelling

Valentina Di Marco, Nir Guttman, Matthew T. Miles +3

A careful characterisation of the noise processes in pulsar timing data is a prerequisite for pulsar timing array experiments. While single-pulsar noise analyses are crucial for bo…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 4 cited

Searching for Anisotropy in the Gravitational Wave Background Using the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Yiqin Chen, Shi-Yi Zhao, Zhi-Zhang Peng +17

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported evidence for a nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB). Such a background signal could be produced b…

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

Discovery of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J1728-4608 with ASKAP

F. Petrou, Y. Wang, N. Hurley-Walker +10

We present the discovery of PSR J1728-4608, a new redback spider pulsar identified in images from the Australian SKA Pathfinder telescope. PSR J1728-4608 is a millisecond pulsar wi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Frequency- and phase-resolved polarimetry of millisecond pulsars and its application to timing

Małgorzata Curyło, Andrew Zic, Shuangqiang Wang +16

Pulsar timing is used for a variety of applications including tests of fundamental physics, probing the structure of neutron stars, and detecting nanohertz gravitational waves. Dev…

astro-ph.HE2025

A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J09003144

Bhavnesh Bhat, Michael J. Keith, Ismaël Cognard +11

We report the detection of a glitch in the millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J09003144, which is included in the European, MeerKAT and Parkes pulsar timing array experiments. The dat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane

Flora Petrou, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Sam McSweeney +12

This paper reports the discovery and follow-up of four candidate redback spider pulsars: GPM J1723-33, GPM J1734-28, GPM J1752-30 and GPM J1815-14, discovered with the Murchison Wi…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Ultra-Wideband Polarimetry of the April 2021 Profile Change Event in PSR J1713+0747

Rami F. Mandow, Andrew Zic, J. R. Dawson +15

The millisecond pulsar PSR J1713+0747 is a high-priority target for pulsar timing array experiments due to its long-term timing stability, and bright, narrow pulse profile. In Apri…

astro-ph.HE2025

Sensitive Constraints on Coherent Radio Emission from Five Isolated White Dwarfs

Lei Zhang, Alexander Wolszczan, Joshua Pritchard +8

Coherent, periodic radio emission from pulsars has been widely interpreted as evidence of neutron stars as strongly magnetized compact objects. In recent years, radio pulses have a…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Multimessenger Search for the Supermassive Black Hole Binary in 3C 66B with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren +15

A subparsec supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at the center of the galaxy 3C 66B is a promising candidate for continuous gravitational-wave searches with pulsar timing arrays…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Searching for continuous gravitational waves in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 3

Shi-Yi Zhao, Zu-Cheng Chen, Jacob Cardinal Tremblay +19

We present results from an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from individual supermassive binary black holes using the third data release (DR3) of the Parkes Pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2025

ASKAP J144834-685644: a newly discovered long period radio transient detected from radio to X-rays

Akash Anumarlapudi, David L. Kaplan, Nanda Rea +13

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are an emerging group of radio transients that show periodic polarized radio bursts with periods varying from a few minutes to a few hours. Fewe…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Discovery of Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters from widefield sky surveys

Barnali Das, Matt E. Shultz, Joshua Pritchard +6

Magnetic AB stars are known to produce periodic radio pulses by the electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME) mechanism. Only 19 such stars, known as 'Main-sequence Radio Pulse emit…