Optimal Pulsar Timing Array Strategies with the Deep Synoptic Array

arXiv:2610.00836 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/tycohen/PTAOptimizer

Terminology

• Deep Synoptic Array — 27× in this paper
• Objective Function — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment — 3× in this paper
• Green Bank Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Ab Initio — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Frequency Dependence — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Grant — 2× in this paper
• Scaling Laws — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory — 1× in this paper
• Monte Carlo Analysis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Impacts of Customized Chromatic Noise Models on Gravitational Wave Analyses
• On the radio spectra of Galactic millisecond pulsars
• NE2001.I. A New Model for the Galactic Distribution of Free Electrons and its Fluctuations
• A Measurement Model for Precision Pulsar Timing
• The DSA-2000 -- A Radio Survey Camera

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