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A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200 (2016)
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McKee, J. W., Janssen, G. H., Stappers, B. W., Lyne, A. G., Caballero, R. N., Lentati, L., Desvignes, G., Jessner, A., Jordan, C. A., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Cognard, I., Champion, D. J., Graikou, E., Lazarus, P., Oslowski, S., Perrodin, D., Shaifullah, G., Tiburzi, C., & Verbiest, J. P. (2016). A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461(3), 2809-2817. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1442

We present evidence for a small glitch in the spin evolution of the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200, using the EPTA Data Release 1.0, combined with Jodrell Bank analogue filterbank times of arrival (TOAs) recorded with the Lovell telescope and Effelsbe... Read More about A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200.

A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system (2016)
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Bassa, C. G., Janssen, G. H., Stappers, B. W., Tauris, T. M., Wevers, T., Jonker, P. G., Lentati, L., Verbiest, J. P., Desvignes, G., Graikou, E., Guillemot, L., Freire, P. C., Lazarus, P., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Jessner, A., Jordan, C., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., …Zhu, W. W. (2016). A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(2), 2207-2222. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1134

We report on 22 yr of radio timing observations of the millisecond pulsar J1024-0719 by the telescopes participating in the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). These observations reveal a significant second derivative of the pulsar spin frequency an... Read More about A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system.

The noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar Timing Array and their impact on gravitational-wave searches (2016)
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Caballero, R. N., Lee, K. J., Lentati, L., Desvignes, G., Champion, D. J., Verbiest, J. P., Janssen, G. H., Stappers, B. W., Kramer, M., Lazarus, P., Possenti, A., Tiburzi, C., Perrodin, D., OsŁowski, S., Babak, S., Bassa, C. G., Brem, P., Burgay, M., Cognard, I., Gair, J. R., …Vecchio, A. (2016). The noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar Timing Array and their impact on gravitational-wave searches. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457(4), 4421-4440. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw179

The sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational waves (GWs) depends on the noise present in the individual pulsar timing data. Noise may be either intrinsic or extrinsic to the pulsar. Intrinsic sources of noise will include rotational insta... Read More about The noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar Timing Array and their impact on gravitational-wave searches.

High-precision timing of 42 millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array (2016)
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Desvignes, G., Caballero, R. N., Lentati, L., Verbiest, J. P., Champion, D. J., Stappers, B. W., Janssen, G. H., Lazarus, P., Osłowski, S., Babak, S., Bassa, C. G., Brem, P., Burgay, M., Cognard, I., Gair, J. R., Graikou, E., Guillemot, L., Hessels, J. W., Jessner, A., Jordan, C., …Vecchio, A. (2016). High-precision timing of 42 millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(3), 3341-3380. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw483

We report on the high-precision timing of 42 radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed by the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). This EPTA Data Release 1.0 extends up to mid-2014 and baselines range from 7-18 yr. It forms the basis for the stochast... Read More about High-precision timing of 42 millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array.

From spin noise to systematics: stochastic processes in the first International Pulsar Timing Array data release (2016)
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Lentati, L., Shannon, R. M., Coles, W. A., Verbiest, J. P., van Haasteren, R., Ellis, J. A., Caballero, R. N., Manchester, R. N., Arzoumanian, Z., Babak, S., Bassa, C. G., Bhat, N. D., Brem, P., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Champion, D., Chatterjee, S., Cognard, I., Cordes, J. M., Dai, S., …Zhu, X. J. (2016). From spin noise to systematics: stochastic processes in the first International Pulsar Timing Array data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(2), 2161-2187. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw395

We analyse the stochastic properties of the 49 pulsars that comprise the first International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) data release. We use Bayesian methodology, performing model selection to determine the optimal description of the stochastic signa... Read More about From spin noise to systematics: stochastic processes in the first International Pulsar Timing Array data release.

The International Pulsar Timing Array: First data release (2016)
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Verbiest, J. P., Lentati, L., Hobbs, G., Van Haasteren, R., Demorest, P. B., Janssen, G. H., Wang, J. B., Desvignes, G., Caballero, R. N., Keith, M. J., Champion, D. J., Arzoumanian, Z., Babak, S., Bassa, C. G., Bhat, N. D., Brazier, A., Brem, P., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Chamberlin, S. J., …Zhu, X. J. (2016). The International Pulsar Timing Array: First data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458(2), 1267-1288. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw347

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro)physical investigations. In particular, arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of milliseconds can be used to detect correlated signals such as those cau... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array: First data release.

LEAP: the Large European Array for Pulsars (2015)
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Bassa, C. G., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J., Perrodin, D., Purver, M., Sanidas, S., Smits, R., & Stappers, B. W. (2016). LEAP: the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456(2), 2196-2209. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2755

The Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) is an experiment that harvests the collective power of Europe's largest radio telescopes in order to increase the sensitivity of high-precision pulsar timing. As part of the ongoing effort of the European P... Read More about LEAP: the Large European Array for Pulsars.