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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.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.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.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…

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.HE2025★ 34 cited

The emission of interpulses by a 6.45-hour period coherent radio transient

Y. W. J. Lee, M. Caleb, Tara Murphy +29

Long-period radio transients are a novel class of astronomical objects characterised by prolonged periods ranging from 18 minutes to 54 minutes. They exhibit highly polarised, cohe…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Pulsar Polarization Array Limits on Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter

Xiao Xue, Shi Dai, Hoang Nhan Luu +20

We conduct the first-ever Pulsar Polarization Array (PPA) analysis to detect the ultralight Axion-Like Dark Matter (ALDM) using the polarization data of 22 millisecond pulsars from…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

Detection of X-ray Emission from a Bright Long-Period Radio Transient

Ziteng Wang, Nanda Rea, Tong Bao +46

Recently, a class of long-period radio transients (LPTs) has been discovered, exhibiting emission on timescales thousands of times longer than radio pulsars. Several models had bee…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 65 cited

The neutron star mass, distance, and inclination from precision timing of the brilliant millisecond pulsar J04374715

Daniel J. Reardon, Matthew Bailes, Ryan M. Shannon +17

The observation of neutron stars enables the otherwise impossible study of fundamental physical processes. The timing of binary radio pulsars is particularly powerful, as it enable…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Systematic errors in searches for nanohertz gravitational waves

Valentina Di Marco, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +1

A number of pulsar timing arrays have recently reported preliminary evidence for the existence of a nanohertz frequency gravitational-wave background. These analyses rely on detail…

astro-ph.HE2023

Discovery of radio eclipses from 4FGL J1646.54406: a new candidate redback pulsar binary

Andrew Zic, Ziteng Wang, Emil Lenc +9

Large widefield surveys make possible the serendipitous discovery of rare sub-classes of pulsars. One such class are "spider"-type pulsar binaries, comprised of a pulsar in a compa…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar PSR J1032-5804 with the Australian SKA Pathfinder

Ziteng Wang, David L. Kaplan, Rahul Sengar +7

We report the discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar in a search for highly circularly polarized radio sources as part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (A…

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★ 163 cited

The gravitational-wave background null hypothesis: Characterizing noise in millisecond pulsar arrival times with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +19

The noise in millisecond pulsar (MSP) timing data can include contributions from observing instruments, the interstellar medium, the solar wind, solar system ephemeris errors, and…