Insights into the Pulsar Timing Array hypothesis space

arXiv:2608.07821 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

El Mehdi Zahraoui, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Willem van Straten, Renate Meyer, Sergei Gulyaev

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-11

Code: https://github.com/bvgoncharov/ppta_dr2_noise_analysis

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Hyper-efficient model-independent Bayesian method for the analysis of pulsar timing data
• A Bayesian analysis pipeline for continuous GW sources in the PTA band
• From Spin Noise to Systematics: Stochastic Processes in the First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Release
• Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search
• A transdimensional sampling framework for pulsar timing noise modelling
• The Parkes pulsar timing array second data release: Timing analysis
• The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release
• The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project: Second data release
• Prospects for High-Precision Pulsar Timing with the New Effelsberg PSRIX Backend
• Local proton heating at magnetic discontinuities in Alfvenic and non-Alfvenic solar wind
• PSRCHIVE and PSRFITS An Open Approach to Radio Pulsar Data Storage and Analysis
• pocoMC: A Python package for accelerated Bayesian inference in astronomy and cosmology
• emcee: The MCMC Hammer

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