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28 March 2024
 
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The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set: Observations, Arrival Time Measurements, and Analysis of 37 Millisecond Pulsars
Z. Arzoumanian ; A. Brazier ; S. Burke-Spolaor ; S. Chamberlin ; S. Chatterjee ; B. Christy ; J. M. Cordes ; N. Cornish ; K. Crowter ; P. B. Demorest ; T. Dolch ; J. A. Ellis ; R. D. Ferdman ; E. Fonseca ; N. Garver-Daniels ; M. E. Gonzalez ; F. A. Jenet ; G. Jones ; M. Jones ; V. M. Kaspi ; M. Koop ; T. J. W. Lazio ; M. T. Lam ; L. Levin ; A. N. Lommen ; D. R. Lorimer ; J. Luo ; R. S. Lynch ; D. Madison ; M. A. McLaughlin ; S. T. McWilliams ; D. J. Nice ; N. Palliyaguru ; T. T. Pennucci ; S. M. Ransom ; X. Siemens ; I. H. Stairs ; D. R. Stinebring ; K. Stovall ; J. K. Swiggum ; M. Vallisneri ; R. van Haasteren ; Y. Wang ; W. Zhu ;
Date 28 May 2015
AbstractWe present high-precision timing observations spanning up to nine years for 37 millisecond pulsars monitored with the Green Bank and Arecibo radio telescopes as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) project. We describe the observational and instrumental setups used to collect the data, and methodology applied for calculating pulse times of arrival; these include novel methods for measuring instrumental offsets and characterizing low signal-to-noise ratio timing results. The time of arrival data are fit to a physical timing model for each source, including terms that characterize time-variable dispersion measure and frequency-dependent pulse shape evolution. In conjunction with the timing model fit, we have performed a Bayesian analysis of a parameterized timing noise model for each source, and detect evidence for time-correlated "red" signals in 10 of the pulsars. Subsequent papers in this series will present further analysis of this data set aimed at detecting or limiting the presence of nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave signals.
Source arXiv, 1505.7540
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