LEAP: the Large European Array for Pulsars

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.

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2755

The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release (2019)
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Perera, B. B., DeCesar, M. E., Demorest, P. B., Kerr, M., Lentati, L., Nice, D. J., Osłowski, S., Ransom, S. M., Keith, M. J., Arzoumanian, Z., Bailes, M., Baker, P. T., Bassa, C. G., Bhat, N. D., Brazier, A., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Chatterjee, S., …Zhu, X. J. (2019). The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(4), 4666-4687. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2857

In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pulsar Timing Array, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravit... Read More about The International Pulsar Timing Array: second data release.

A detailed study of giant pulses from PSR B1937+21 using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2018)
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McKee, J. W., Stappers, B. W., Bassa, C. G., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Gaikwad, M., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., Perrodin, D., Sanidas, S. A., Smits, R., Wang, L., & Zhu, W. W. (2019). A detailed study of giant pulses from PSR B1937+21 using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483(4), 4784-4802. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3058

We have studied 4265 giant pulses (GPs) from the millisecond pulsar B1937+21; the largest-ever sample gathered for this pulsar, in observations made with the Large European Array for Pulsars. The pulse energy distribution of GPs associated with the i... Read More about A detailed study of giant pulses from PSR B1937+21 using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Tests of gravitational symmetries with pulsar binary J1713+0747 (2018)
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Zhu, W. W., Desvignes, G., Wex, N., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Demorest, P. B., Ellis, J. A., Janssen, G. H., Kramer, M., Krieger, A., Lentati, L., Nice, D. J., Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., Stappers, B. W., Verbiest, J. P., Arzoumanian, Z., Bassa, C. G., Burgay, M., Cognard, I., …Tiburzi, C. (2019). Tests of gravitational symmetries with pulsar binary J1713+0747. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(3), 3249-3260. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2905

Symmetries play a fundamental role in modern theories of gravity. The strong equivalence principle (SEP) constitutes a collection of gravitational symmetries which are all implemented by general relativity. Alternative theories, however, are generall... Read More about Tests of gravitational symmetries with pulsar binary J1713+0747.

Studying the Solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array (2018)
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Caballero, R. N., Guo, Y. J., Lee, K. J., Lazarus, P., Champion, D. J., Desvignes, G., Kramer, M., Plant, K., Arzoumanian, Z., Bailes, M., Bassa, C. G., Bhat, N. D., Brazier, A., Burgay, M., Burke-Spolaor, S., Chamberlin, S. J., Chatterjee, S., Cognard, I., Cordes, J. M., Dai, S., …Zhu, W. W. (2018). Studying the Solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(4), 5501-5516. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY2632

Pulsar-timing analyses are sensitive to errors in the Solar-system ephemerides (SSEs) that timing models utilize to estimate the location of the Solar-system barycentre, the quasi-inertial reference frame to which all recorded pulse times-of-arrival... Read More about Studying the Solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array.

Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries (2018)
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Perera, B. B., Stappers, B. W., Babak, S., Keith, M. J., Antoniadis, J., Bassa, C. G., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Graikou, E., Guillemot, L., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lazarus, P., Lentati, L., Liu, K., Lyne, A. G., McKee, J. W., …Taylor, S. R. (2018). Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(1), 218-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1116

We search for continuous gravitational waves (CGWs) produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries in circular orbits using high-cadence timing observations of PSR J1713+0747. We observe this millisecond pulsar using the telescopes in the Eu... Read More about Improving timing sensitivity in the microhertz frequency regime: limits from PSR J1713+0747 on gravitational waves produced by supermassive black hole binaries.

Temporal variations in scattering and dispersion measure in the Crab Pulsar and their effect on timing precision (2018)
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McKee, J. W., Lyne, A. G., Stappers, B. W., Bassa, C. G., & Jordan, C. A. (2018). Temporal variations in scattering and dispersion measure in the Crab Pulsar and their effect on timing precision. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3), 4216-4224. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1727

We have measured variations in scattering time-scales in the Crab Pulsar over a 30-yr period, using observations made at 610 MHz with the 42-ft telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Over more recent years, where regular Lovell Telescope observations... Read More about Temporal variations in scattering and dispersion measure in the Crab Pulsar and their effect on timing precision.

The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars (2017)
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Smits, R., Bassa, C. G., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., McKee, J., Perrodin, D., Purver, M., Sanidas, S., Stappers, B. W., & Zhu, W. W. (2017). The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars. Astronomy and Computing, 19, 66-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2017.02.002

The Large European Array for Pulsars combines Europe's largest radio telescopes to form a tied-array telescope that provides high signal-to-noise observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with the objective to increase the sensitivity of detecting l... Read More about The beamformer and correlator for the Large European Array for Pulsars.

Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey (2017)
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Lyne, A. G., Stappers, B. W., Bogdanov, S., Ferdman, R. D., Freire, P. C., Kaspi, V. M., Knispel, B., Lynch, R., Allen, B., Brazier, A., Camilo, F., Cardoso, F., Chatterjee, S., Cordes, J. M., Crawford, F., Deneva, J. S., Hessels, J. W., Jenet, F. A., Lazarus, P., Leeuwen, J. V., …Machenschalk, B. (2017). Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey. The Astrophysical journal, 834(2), Article 137. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/137

We report on the discovery and timing observations of 29 distant long-period pulsars found in the ongoing Arecibo L-band Feed Array pulsar survey. Following discovery with the Arecibo Telescope, confirmation and timing observations of these pulsars o... Read More about Timing of 29 Pulsars Discovered in the PALFA Survey.

Variability, polarimetry, and timing properties of single pulses from PSR J1713+0747 using the Large European Array for Pulsars (2016)
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Liu, K., Bassa, C. G., Janssen, G. H., Karuppusamy, R., McKee, J., Kramer, M., Lee, K. J., Perrodin, D., Purver, M., Sanidas, S., Smits, R., Stappers, B. W., Weltevrede, P., & Zhu, W. W. (2016). Variability, polarimetry, and timing properties of single pulses from PSR J1713+0747 using the Large European Array for Pulsars. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463(3), 3239-3248. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2223

Single pulses preserve information about the pulsar radio emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere, and understanding the behaviour of their variability is essential for estimating the fundamental limit on the achievable pulsar timing pre... Read More about Variability, polarimetry, and timing properties of single pulses from PSR J1713+0747 using the Large European Array for Pulsars.

21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 (2016)
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Shaifullah, G., Verbiest, J. P., Freire, P. C., Tauris, T. M., Wex, N., Oslowski, S., Stappers, B. W., Bassa, C. G., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Graikou, E., Guillemot, L., Janssen, G. H., Jessner, A., Jordan, C., Karuppusamy, R., Kramer, M., Lazaridis, K., …Tiburzi, C. (2016). 21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(1), 1029-1038. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1737

Timing results for the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827 are presented, using a 21 year data set from four European Pulsar Timing Array telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope. This data set, which is the longest published to date for a black-widow sys... Read More about 21 year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827.

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.

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