期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
卷 252, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/abc6a1
关键词
Millisecond pulsars; Pulsar timing method; Rotation powered pulsars; Binary pulsars; Radio pulsars; Pulsars; Gravitational waves; Astronomy data analysis; Interstellar medium
资金
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center [1430284]
- University of Central Florida (UCF) [AST-1744119]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NSERC
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- MTA-ELTE Extragalactic Astrophysics Research Group - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia)
- CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB23000000]
A new analysis of profile data from 47 millisecond pulsars using wideband timing methods shows remarkable agreement with results from NG12.5, with certain cases benefiting from 10%-15% more precise timing model parameters. This wideband timing data set serves as a stepping stone for gravitational wave analyses, reducing TOA volume and potentially speeding up complex pulsar timing array computations.
We present a new analysis of the profile data from the 47 millisecond pulsars comprising the 12.5 yr data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves, which is presented in a parallel paper (Alam et al., hereafter NG12.5). Our reprocessing is performed using wideband timing methods, which use frequency-dependent template profiles, simultaneous time-of-arrival (TOA) and dispersion measure (DM) measurements from broadband observations, and novel analysis techniques. In particular, the wideband DM measurements are used to constrain the DM portion of the timing model. We compare the ensemble timing results to those in NG12.5 by examining the timing residuals, timing models, and noise-model components. There is a remarkable level of agreement across all metrics considered. Our best-timed pulsars produce encouragingly similar results to those from NG12.5. In certain cases, such as high-DM pulsars with profile broadening or sources that are weak and scintillating, wideband timing techniques prove to be beneficial, leading to more precise timing model parameters by 10%-15%. The high-precision, multiband measurements of several pulsars indicate frequency-dependent DMs. Compared to the narrowband analysis in NG12.5, the TOA volume is reduced by a factor of 33, which may ultimately facilitate computational speed-ups for complex pulsar timing array analyses. This first wideband pulsar timing data set is a stepping stone, and its consistent results with NG12.5 assure us that such data sets are appropriate for gravitational wave analyses.
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