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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 440, 期 2, 页码 1446-1457出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu312
关键词
gravitational waves
资金
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Postdoctoral Programme at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- NASA
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory RTD Programme
The extremely regular, periodic radio emission from millisecond pulsars makes them useful tools for studying neutron star astrophysics, general relativity, and low-frequency gravitational waves. These studies require that the observed pulse times of arrival be fitted to complex timing models that describe numerous effects such as the astrometry of the source, the evolution of the pulsar's spin, the presence of a binary companion, and the propagation of the pulses through the interstellar medium. In this paper, we discuss the benefits of using Bayesian inference to obtain pulsar-timing solutions. These benefits include the validation of linearized least-squares model fits when they are correct, and the proper characterization of parameter uncertainties when they are not; the incorporation of prior parameter information and of models of correlated noise; and the Bayesian comparison of alternative timing models. We describe our computational setup, which combines the timing models of tempo2 with the nested-sampling integrator multinest. We compare the timing solutions generated using Bayesian inference and linearized least-squares for three pulsars: B1953+29, J2317+1439, and J1640+2224, which demonstrate a variety of the benefits that we posit.
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