The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

By G. Hobbs. 2009

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The aims of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project are to (1) make a direct detection of gravitational waves, (2) improve the solar system planetary ephemeris and (3) develop a pulsar-based timescale. In this paper we describe the project, explain how the data are collected and processed and describe current research. Our current data sets are able to place an upper bound on the gravitational wave background that is the most stringent to date.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Michael Kramer
2. S. Burke-Spolaor
3. A. Sesana
4. D. R. Lorimer
5. C. Berry
6. Jonathan R. Gair
7. Christopher J. Moore
8. Robert H. Cole

In Oceanography

1. S. Burke-Spolaor
2. Jason W. T. Hessels
3. D. R. Lorimer
4. A. Sesana
5. Michael Kramer
6. J. Verbiest
7. Alberto Vecchio
8. Cees G. Bassa

Citations in the corpus

• The Masses and Spins of Neutron Stars and Stellar-Mass Black Holes (2014, unknown): “au/research/pulsar/psrcat/ [119] and the catalog http://astro.”
• European Pulsar Timing Array Limits on Continuous Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries (2015, background): “The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA, Kramer & Champion 2013), the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA, Hobbs 2013) and the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav, McLaughlin 2013), joining together in the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA, Hobbs et al. 2010;…”
• Probing ultralight bosons with binary black holes (2018, background): “9, for physically motivated values of α and M ; cf. (4.1), and compared to the frequency bands of ground-based [127 – 131] and space-based [132 – 134] detectors, as well as pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) [135 – 140].”
• The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: High-precision Timing of 45 Millisecond Pulsars (2017, methodology): “Similar programs are being carried out by the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (Hobbs 2013; Reardon et al. 2016) and the European Pulsar Timing Array (Kramer & Champion 2013; Desvignes et al. 2016).”
• The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background (2018, background): “The three major collaborations involved in this effort are the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitationalwaves (NANOGrav, McLaughlin (2013)), the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA, Desvignes et al. (2016)), and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA, Hobbs (2013)).”
• Gravitational-wave sensitivity curves (2014, methodology): “he ratio h c(f)=h n(f) is constant. 4.4.1. Current PTAs The PTAs currently in operation are the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTAk; Kramer and Champion, 2013), the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA{; Hobbs, 2013) based in Australia, and the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational wave”