Proper Time Shifts in Pulsar Timing Arrays

arXiv:2609.17668 · hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-09-15 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-23

Comments: 14+6 pages, 2 figures

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

Terminology

• pulsar timing arrays — 22× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves
• The European Pulsar Timing Array: current efforts and a LEAP toward the future
• The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project
• The Indian Pulsar Timing Array: First data release
• Searching for the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I
• The MeerTime Pulsar Timing Array -- A Census of Emission Properties and Timing Potential
• The Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomer
• Searching for primordial black hole dark matter with pulsar timing arrays
• Enhanced exploration for primordial black holes using pulsar timing arrays
• Pulsar timing can constrain primordial black holes in the LIGO mass window
• Pulsar Timing Probes of Primordial Black Holes and Subhalos
• Probing Dark Matter Substructure with Pulsar Timing
• Prospects for Detecting Dark Matter Halo Substructure with Pulsar Timing
• Investigating dark matter substructure with pulsar timing: I. Constraints on ultracompact minihalos
• Investigating dark matter substructure with pulsar timing: II. Improved limits on small-scale cosmology
• Detectability of Small-Scale Dark Matter Clumps with Pulsar Timing Arrays
• Observability of Dark Matter Substructure with Pulsar Timing Correlations
• Probing Small-Scale Power Spectra with Pulsar Timing Arrays
• Bayesian Forecasts for Dark Matter Substructure Searches with Mock Pulsar Timing Data
• Physics beyond the Standard Model with the DSA-2000

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