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The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field (2022)
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Józsa, G. I., Jarrett, T. H., Cluver, M. E., Wong, O. I., Havenga, O., Yao, H. F., Marchetti, L., Taylor, E. N., Kamphuis, P., MacCagni, F. M., Ramaila, A. J., Serra, P., Smirnov, O. M., White, S. V., Kilborn, V., Holwerda, B. W., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S., Pimbblet, K. A., Driver, S. P., & Kuijken, K. (2022). The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field. The Astrophysical journal, 926(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac402b

We report on the detection of a large, extended H i cloud complex in the Galaxy and Mass Survey G23 field, located at a redshift of z ∼0.03, observed as part of the MeerKAT Habitat of Galaxies Survey campaign (a pilot survey to explore the mosaicing... Read More about The Detection of a Massive Chain of Dark H i Clouds in the GAMA G23 Field.

Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08 (2022)
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Bilous, A. V., Grießmeier, J. M., Pennucci, T., Wu, Z., Bondonneau, L., Kondratiev, V., Van Leeuwen, J., Maan, Y., Connor, L., Oostrum, L. C., Petroff, E., Verbiest, J. P., Vohl, D., Mckee, J. W., Shaifullah, G., Theureau, G., Ulyanov, O. M., Cecconi, B., Coolen, A. H., Corbel, S., …Ziemke, J. (2022). Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 658, Article A143. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142242

PSR B0950+08 is a bright nonrecycled pulsar whose single-pulse fluence variability is reportedly large. Based on observations at two widely separated frequencies, 55 MHz (NenuFAR) and 1.4 GHz (Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope), we review the prop... Read More about Dual-frequency single-pulse study of PSR B0950+08.

Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques (2022)
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Sipols, A. E., Valcarce-Diñeiro, R., Santos-Martín, M. T., Sánchez, N., & de Blas, C. S. (2022). Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques. Remote Sensing, 14(3), Article 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030614

This paper aims to both fit and predict crop biophysical variables with a SAR image series by performing a factorial experiment and estimating time series models using a combination of forecasts. Two plots of barley grown under rainfed conditions in... Read More about Time Series of Quad-Pol C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Forecasting of Crop Biophysical Variables of Barley Fields Using Statistical Techniques.

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background (2022)
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Antoniadis, J., Arzoumanian, Z., Babak, S., Bailes, M., Bak Nielsen, A. S., Baker, P. T., Bassa, C. G., Bécsy, B., Berthereau, A., Bonetti, M., Brazier, A., Brook, P. R., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Caballero, R. N., Casey-Clyde, J. A., Chalumeau, A., Champion, D. J., Charisi, M., Chatterjee, S., …Shaifullah, G. (2022). The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 4873-4887. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3418

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal-length pulsar-timing campaigns in North America, Europe, and Austra... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background.

Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2022)
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Mall, G., Main, R. A., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Burgay, M., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Concu, R., Corongiu, A., Gaikwad, M., Hu, H., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Melis, A., Mickaliger, M. B., Perrodin, D., …Zhu, W. W. (2022). Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(1), 1104-1114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac096

In this work, we study variations in the parabolic scintillation arcs of the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1643-1224 over five years using the Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP). The two-dimensional (2D) power spectrum of scintillation, called... Read More about Modelling annual scintillation arc variations in PSR J1643-1224 using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope (2022)
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Cassanelli, T., Leung, C., Rahman, M., Vanderlinde, K., Mena-Parra, J., Cary, S., Masui, K. W., Luo, J., Lin, H. H., Bij, A., Gill, A., Baker, D., Bandura, K., Berger, S., Boyle, P. J., Brar, C., Chatterjee, S., Cubranic, D., Dobbs, M., Fonseca, E., …Tendulkar, S. P. (2022). Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope. Astronomical Journal, 163(2), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3d2f

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)/FRB experiment has detected thousands of fast radio bursts (FRBs) due to its sensitivity and wide field of view; however, its low angular resolution prevents it from localizing events to thei... Read More about Localizing FRBs through VLBI with the Algonquin Radio Observatory 10 m Telescope.

Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary (2022)
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Parent, E., Sewalls, H., Freire, P. C., Matheny, T., Lyne, A. G., Perera, B. B., Cardoso, F., McLaughlin, M. A., Allen, B., Brazier, A., Camilo, F., Chatterjee, S., Cordes, J. M., Crawford, F., Deneva, J. S., Dong, F. A., Ferdman, R. D., Fonseca, E., Hessels, J. W., Kaspi, V. M., …Zhu, W. W. (2022). Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary. The Astrophysical journal, 924(2), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac375d

We present new discoveries and results from long-term timing of 72 pulsars discovered in the Pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (PALFA) survey, including precise determination of astrometric and spin parameters, and flux density and scatter broadening... Read More about Study of 72 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey: Timing Analysis, Glitch Activity, Emission Variability, and a Pulsar in an Eccentric Binary.

The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design (2022)
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Allison, J. R., Sadler, E. M., Amaral, A. D., An, T., Curran, S. J., Darling, J., Edge, A. C., Ellison, S. L., Emig, K. L., Gaensler, B. M., Garratt-Smithson, L., Glowacki, M., Grasha, K., Koribalski, B. S., Lagos, C. D. P., Lah, P., Mahony, E. K., Mao, S. A., Morganti, R., Moss, V. A., …Zwaan, M. A. (2022). The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design. Publications / Astronomical Society of Australia, 39, Article e010. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2022.3

We describe the scientific goals and survey design of the First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH), a wide field survey for 21-cm line absorption in neutral atomic hydrogen (H i) at intermediate cosmological redshifts. FLASH will be carried out w... Read More about The First Large Absorption Survey in H i (FLASH): I. Science goals and survey design.

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search (2021)
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Chen, S., Caballero, R. N., Guo, Y. J., Chalumeau, A., Liu, K., Shaifullah, G., Lee, K. J., Babak, S., Desvignes, G., Parthasarathy, A., Hu, H., Van Der Wateren, E., Antoniadis, J., Bak Nielsen, A. S., Bassa, C. G., Berthereau, A., Burgay, M., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Falxa, M., …Xu, H. (2021). Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(4), 4970-4993. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2833

We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from the Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) cove... Read More about Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search.

Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator (2021)
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Purver, M., Bassa, C. G., Cognard, I., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J. W., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S., Smits, R., & Stappers, B. W. (2022). Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 1597-1611. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3434

We describe how to implement the spectral kurtosis method of interference removal (zapping) on a digitized signal of averaged power values. Spectral kurtosis is a hypothesis test, analogous to the t-test, with a null hypothesis that the amplitudes fr... Read More about Removal and replacement of interference in tied-array radio pulsar observations using the spectral kurtosis estimator.