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most citedThe second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals

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55 papers

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A study of two FRBs with low polarization fractions localized with the MeerTRAP transient buffer system

K. M. Rajwade, L. N. Driessen, E. D. Barr +19

Localisation of fast radio bursts (FRBs) to arcsecond and sub-arcsecond precision maximizes their potential as cosmological probes. To that end, FRB detection instruments are deplo…

astro-ph.HE2024

Modeling non stationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis

Mikel Falxa, J. Antoniadis, D. J. Champion +16

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations recently reported evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in their datasets. The main candidate that is expected…

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★ 320 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1k cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Discovery of an Extremely Intermittent Periodic Radio Source

M. P. Surnis, K. M. Rajwade, B. W. Stappers +12

We report the serendipitous discovery of an extremely intermittent radio pulsar, PSR J1710-3452, with a relatively long spin period of 10.4 s. The object was discovered through the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 79 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 111 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 76 cited

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…

gr-qc2023★ 29 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

A sample of Fast Radio Bursts discovered and localised with MeerTRAP at the MeerKAT telescope

F. Jankowski, M. C. Bezuidenhout, M. Caleb +14

We present a sample of well-localised Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) discovered by the MeerTRAP project at the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa. We discovered the three FRBs in single c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 45 cited

A sub-arcsec localised fast radio burst with a significant host galaxy dispersion measure contribution

M. Caleb, L. N. Driessen, A. C. Gordon +29

We present the discovery of FRB 20210410D, with the MeerKAT radio interferometer in South Africa, as part of the MeerTRAP commensal project. FRB 20210410D has a dispersion measure…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 61 cited

First discoveries and localisations of Fast Radio Bursts with MeerTRAP: a real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey

K. M. Rajwade, M. C. Bezuidenhout, M. Caleb +24

We report on the discovery and localization of fast radio bursts (FRBs) from the MeerTRAP project, a commensal fast radio transient-detection programme at MeerKAT in South Africa.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

MeerTRAP: Twelve Galactic fast transients detected in a real-time, commensal MeerKAT survey

M. C. Bezuidenhout, E. Barr, M. Caleb +9

MeerTRAP is a real-time untargeted search project using the MeerKAT telescope to find single pulses from fast radio transients and pulsars. It is performed commensally with the Mee…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 39 cited

Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars

G. Mall, R. A. Main, J. Antoniadis +25

In this work we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEA…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 344 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic Gravitational Wave Background

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak +123

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decad…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

A MeerKAT, e-MERLIN, H.E.S.S. and Swift search for persistent and transient emission associated with three localised FRBs

James O. Chibueze, M. Caleb, L. Spitler +156

We report on a search for persistent radio emission from the one-off Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 20190714A, as well as from two repeating FRBs, 20190711A and 20171019A, using the MeerKA…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 53 cited

Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search

A. Chalumeau, S. Babak, A. Petiteau +49

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration has recently released an extended data set for six pulsars (DR2) and reported evidence for a common red noise signal. Here we…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 6 cited

Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator

M. Purver, C. G. Bassa, I. Cognard +10

We describe how to implement the spectral kurtosis method of interference removal (zapping) on a digitized signal of averaged power values. Spectral kurtosis is a hypothesis test,…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 282 cited

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: Inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search

S. Chen, R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo +49

We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from th…

astro-ph.IM2021

MeerTRAP in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics

Kaustubh Rajwade, Benjamin Stappers, Christopher Williams +9

Real-time detections of transients and rapid multi-wavelength follow-up are at the core of modern multi-messenger astrophysics. MeerTRAP is one such instrument that has been deploy…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 11 cited

Real-time triggering capabilities for Fast Radio Bursts at the MeerKAT telescope

F. Jankowski, M. Berezina, B. W. Stappers +9

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright enigmatic radio pulses of roughly millisecond duration that come from extragalactic distances. As part of the MeerTRAP project, we use the MeerK…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 34 cited

Measuring Interstellar Delays of PSR J0613-0200 over 7 years, using the Large European Array for Pulsars

R. A. Main, S. A. Sanidas, J. Antoniadis +19

Using data from the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP), and the Effelsberg telescope, we study the scintillation parameters of the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200 over a 7 year…