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most citedThe Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project

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57 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

Time-Correlated Profile Variability in the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

Bhavnesh Bhat, Michael J. Keith, E. Carli +2

Long-term pulse-profile variability has emerged as a potentially important source of uncertainty for high-precision pulsar timing, as changes in the integrated pulse shape can bias…

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.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.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…

gr-qc2025★ 3 cited

Search for Gravitational Wave Memory in PPTA and EPTA Data: A Complete Signal Model

Sharon Mary Tomson, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren +21

We perform searches for gravitational wave memory in the data of two major Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments located in Europe and Australia. Supermassive black hole binaries (…

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

Optimising the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array and towards precision pulsar timing with SKA-mid

Pratyasha Gitika, Ryan M. Shannon, Matthew Bailes +4

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are Galactic-scale nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Recently, several PTAs have found evidence for the presence of GWs in their da…

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.EP2025

A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet

Michael Zhang, Maya Beleznay, Timothy D. Brandt +17

A handful of enigmatic Jupiter-mass objects have been discovered orbiting pulsars. One such object, PSR\,J2322-2650b, uniquely resembles a hot Jupiter exoplanet due to its minimum…

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

A simple optimisation for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

Hannah Middleton, Ryan M. Shannon, Matthew Bailes +9

The goal of the MeerKAT radio telescope's pulsar timing array programme (MPTA) is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. Evidence for such a signal wa…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Maps of the gravitational-wave sky with the 4.5 year data release

Kathrin Grunthal, Rowina S. Nathan, Eric Thrane +16

In an accompanying publication, the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA) collaboration reports tentative evidence for the presence of a stochastic gravitational-wave background, foll…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 94 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +22

Pulsar Timing Arrays search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves by regularly observing ensembles of millisecond pulsars over many years to look for correlated timing residu…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 45 cited

The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: The -year data release and the noise and stochastic signals of the millisecond pulsar population

Matthew T. Miles, Ryan M. Shannon, Daniel J. Reardon +21

Pulsar timing arrays are ensembles of regularly observed millisecond pulsars timed to high precision. Each pulsar in an array could be affected by a suite of noise processes, most…

gr-qc2024★ 4 cited

Constraining inflation with nonminimal derivative coupling with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data release

Chang Han, Li-Yang Chen, Zu-Cheng Chen +13

We study an inflation model with nonminimal derivative coupling that features a coupling between the derivative of the inflaton field and the Einstein tensor. This model naturally…