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Discovery of 51 pulsars in a reanalysis of the Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey and a revised pulsar census
R. Sengar, L. Vleeschower, D. L. Kaplan +13
We present results from a reanalysis of the Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) survey, conducted at 350 MHz with the Green Bank Telescope between 2009 and 2020, covering the sk…
The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Modified Functional Forms for Profile-Evolution Time Delays in Pulsar Timing Models
Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Olivia West +49
Radio pulsars exhibit frequency-dependent variations in the shape of their pulse profiles that introduce systematic delays in the observed pulse times of arrival (TOA) across an ob…
Optimal Pulsar Timing Array Strategies with the Deep Synoptic Array
Tyler Cohen, Paul B. Demorest, Jeremy G. Baier +50
Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have seen evidence for a nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) through coordinated radio timing observations of millisecond…
Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Lack of Resolvable Sources in the NANOGrav 15-yr Dataset
Emiko C. Gardiner, Kayhan Gültekin, Philippe Turgeon +116
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have found evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), but have not yet…
Timing and statistical analysis of single-pulse search pulsar discoveries from the PALFA survey
Graham M. Doskoch, Maura A. McLaughlin, B. Allen +23
Almost two decades after their discovery, pulsars discoverable only through their single, dispersed radio pulses, known as rotating radio transients (RRATS), remain a poorly-unders…
Multi-Method Timing of Transient Radio Pulsars with the GBT350 and GBNCC Surveys
E. F. Lewis, M. A. McLaughlin, J. K. Swiggum +23
We present the timing solutions for three radio pulsars discovered with the Green Bank North Celestial Cap (GBNCC) and 350-MHz Green Bank Telescope drift-scan surveys. These pulsar…
Discovery and Timing of Four -ray Millisecond Pulsars
M. Kerr, S. Johnston, C. J. Clark +11
We discovered four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in searches of 80 -ray sources conducted from 2015 to 2017 with the Murriyang radio telescope of the Parkes Observatory. We provide…
NGC 1851A: Revealing an ongoing three-body encounter in a dense globular cluster
A. Dutta, P. C. C. Freire, T. Gautam +16
PSR J05144002A is a binary millisecond pulsar located in the globular cluster NGC 1851. The pulsar has a spin period of 4.99 ms, an orbital period of 18.8 days, and is in a very…
Rapid Construction of Joint Pulsar Timing Array Datasets: The Lite Method
Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Paul T. Baker +41
The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)'s second data release (IPTA DR2) combines decades of observations of 65 millisecond pulsars from 7 radio telescopes. IPTA datasets shou…
Pulse Profile Variability of PSR J1022+1001 in NANOGrav Data
William Fiore, Maura A. McLaughlin, Gabriella Agazie +46
Pulse profile stability is a central assumption of standard pulsar timing methods. Thus, it is important for pulsar timing array experiments such as the North American Nanohertz Ob…
A Novel Technique for Long-term Timing of Redback Millisecond Pulsars
Kyle A. Corcoran, Scott M. Ransom, Alexandra C. Rosenthal +6
We present timing solutions spanning nearly two decades for five redback (RB) systems found in globular clusters (GC), created using a novel technique that effectively "isolates" t…
Radio and gamma-ray timing of TRAPUM L-band Fermi pulsar survey discoveries
M. Burgay, L. Nieder, C. J. Clark +18
This paper presents the results of a joint radio and gamma-ray timing campaign on the nine millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered as part of the L-band targeted survey of Fermi-LAT…
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…
Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries
Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107
The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…
A 34 Yr Timing Solution of the Redback Millisecond Pulsar Terzan 5A
Alexandra C. Rosenthal, Scott M. Ransom, Kyle A. Corcoran +12
We present a 34-year timing solution of the redback pulsar system Terzan 5A (Ter5A). Ter5A, also known as B174424A or J17482446A, has a 11.56 ms pulse period, a 0.1 sol…
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Running of the Spectral Index
Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +102
The NANOGrav 15-year data provides compelling evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies. The simplest model-independent approach to char…
Lower-mass-gap Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Claire S. Ye, Kyle Kremer, Scott M. Ransom +1
The existence of compact stellar remnants in the mass range has long been debated. This so-called lower mass gap was initially suggested by the lack of low-mass X-…
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Posterior predictive checks for gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays
Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +99
Pulsar-timing-array experiments have reported evidence for a stochastic background of nanohertz gravitational waves consistent with the signal expected from a population of superma…
CHIME/FRB/Pulsar discovery of a nearby long period radio transient with a timing glitch
Fengqiu Adam Dong, Tracy E Clarke, Alice Curtin +22
We present the discovery of a 421 s long period radio transient (LPT) using the CHIME telescope, CHIME J0630+25. The source is localized to RA=06:30:38.4 Dec=25:26:24…
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…
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Chromatic Gaussian Process Noise Models for Six Pulsars
Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Jeffrey S. Hazboun +61
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). GWs induce achromatic signals in PTA data, meaning that the timing delays do not depend…
The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Looking for Signs of Discreteness in the Gravitational-wave Background
Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97
The cosmic merger history of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) is expected to produce a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB). Here we investigate how signs of…
Discoveries and Timing of Pulsars in M62
L. Vleeschower, A. Corongiu, B. W. Stappers +14
Using MeerKAT, we have discovered three new millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the bulge globular cluster M62: M62H, M62I, and M62J. All three are in binary systems, which means all ten…
A targeted radio pulsar survey of redback candidates with MeerKAT
T. Thongmeearkom, C. J. Clark, R. P. Breton +18
Redbacks are millisecond pulsar binaries with low mass, irradiated companions. These systems have a rich phenomenology that can be used to probe binary evolution models, pulsar win…