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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…
The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Chromatic Noise Characterization & Mitigation with Time-Domain Kernels
Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Joseph Simon, Jeremy Baier +64
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have recently entered the detection era, quickly moving beyond the goal of simply improving sensitivity at the lowest frequencies for the sake of observ…
Measuring pulsar profile variations with 2-D Gaussian process regression
Michael J. Keith, Renée Spiewak, Andrew G. Lyne +3
Time-correlated variations in the pulse profiles of radio pulsars provide insights into changes in their magnetospheres. For a small number of pulsars (~20), these variations have…
Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the European Pulsar Timing Array
N. K. Porayko, P. Usynina, J. Terol-Calvo +74
Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an…
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Probing Interstellar Turbulence and Precision Pulsar Timing with PSR J1903+0327
Abra Geiger, James M. Cordes, Michael T. Lam +33
Free electrons in the interstellar medium refract and diffract radio waves along multiple paths, resulting in angular and temporal broadening of radio pulses that limits pulsar tim…
Bow Shock and Local Bubble Plasma Unveiled by the Scintillating Millisecond Pulsar J04374715
Daniel J. Reardon, Robert Main, Stella Koch Ocker +10
The ionized interstellar medium contains au-scale (and below) structures that scatter radio waves from pulsars, resulting in scintillation. Power spectral analysis of scintillation…
Exploring pulsar timing precision: A comparative study of polarization calibration methods for NANOGrav data from the Green Bank Telescope
Lankeswar Dey, Maura A. McLaughlin, Haley M. Wahl +32
Pulsar timing array experiments have recently uncovered evidence for a nanohertz gravitational wave background by precisely timing an ensemble of millisecond pulsars. The next sign…
MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array parallaxes and proper motions
Mohsen Shamohammadi, Matthew Bailes, Christopher Flynn +10
We have determined positions, proper motions, and parallaxes of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from years of MeerKAT radio telescope observations. Our timing and noise ana…
The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: A computationally efficient eccentric binary search pipeline and constraints on an eccentric supermassive binary candidate in 3C 66B
Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +85
The radio galaxy 3C 66B has been hypothesized to host a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at its center based on electromagnetic observations. Its apparent 1.05-year period an…
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…
The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Dispersion Measure Mis-Estimation with Varying Bandwidths
Sofia Valentina Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Zaven Arzoumanian +28
Noise characterization for pulsar-timing applications accounts for interstellar dispersion by assuming a known frequency-dependence of the delay it introduces in the times of arriv…
The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory
Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +87
We present the results of a Bayesian search for gravitational wave (GW) memory in the NANOGrav 12.5-yr data set. We find no convincing evidence for any gravitational wave memory si…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I. The dataset and timing analysis
J. Antoniadis, S. Babak, A. -S. Bak Nielsen +66
Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1 - 100 nanohertz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trac…
Search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic, Ryan M. Shannon +26
Pulsar timing arrays aim to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). A background of GWs modulates pulsar arrival times and manifests as a stochastic process, common t…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +95
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar T…
The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release
Andrew Zic, Daniel J. Reardon, Agastya Kapur +31
We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" rad…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: VI. Challenging the ultralight dark matter paradigm
Clemente Smarra, Boris Goncharov, Enrico Barausse +68
Pulsar Timing Array experiments probe the presence of possible scalar or pseudoscalar ultralight dark matter particles through decade-long timing of an ensemble of galactic millise…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +111
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and fir…
The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array V. Search for continuous gravitational wave signals
J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +97
We present the results of a search for continuous gravitational wave signals (CGWs) in the second data release (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration. The m…
Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars
Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere, Pierre Auclair, Stanislav Babak +69
We search for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by a network of cosmic strings using six millisecond pulsars from Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pul…
The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. VIII. 21 New Pulsar Timing Solutions
William Fiore, Lina Levin, Maura A. McLaughlin +26
We present timing solutions for 21 pulsars discovered in 350 MHz surveys using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). All were discovered in the Green Bank North Celestial Cap pulsar surv…
Mass measurements and 3D orbital geometry of PSR J19336211
M. Geyer, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +19
PSR J19336211 is a 3.5-ms pulsar in a 12.8-d orbit with a white dwarf (WD). Its high proper motion and low dispersion measure result in such significant interstellar scintillati…
Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array
M. Falxa, S. Babak, P. T. Baker +123
The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wa…
Neutron star mass estimates from gamma-ray eclipses in spider millisecond pulsar binaries
C. J. Clark, M. Kerr, E. D. Barr +26
Reliable neutron star mass measurements are key to determining the equation-of-state of cold nuclear matter, but these are rare. "Black Widows" and "Redbacks" are compact binaries…