Wang, Jun: Optimizing Analysis Standards for Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Wave Detection. 2021
Inhalt
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Nomenclature
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Pulsars and Millisecond Pulsars
- 1.1.1 Pulsar Formation
- 1.1.2 The Discovery of Pulsars
- 1.1.3 Binary and Millisecond Pulsars
- 1.1.4 Pulsar Properties
- 1.2 Effects of the Ionized Interstellar Medium
- 1.3 Pulsar Applications and Gravitational Wave Astronomy
- 1.3.1 Gravitational Waves
- 1.3.2 Gravitational Wave Sources
- 1.3.3 Pulsars as Gravitational Wave Detectors
- 1.4 Synopsis
- 2 Pulsar Timing Method
- 2.1 Data Acquisition
- 2.2 Data Pre-Processing
- 2.3 Times of Arrival and Residuals
- 2.4 Outliers in Pulsar Timing Array Datasets
- 3 A Comparative Analysis of TOA Creation Methods
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Observations
- 3.2.1 Effelsberg Radio Telescope
- 3.2.2 Lovell Radio Telescope
- 3.2.3 Nançay Decimetric Radio Telescope
- 3.2.4 Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope
- 3.3 Data Processing Techniques
- 3.3.1 Template Creation and Comparison
- 3.3.2 Time of Arrival Determination Algorithms
- 3.3.3 Time of Arrival Bandwidth and Jitter Noise
- 3.4 Results and Discussion
- 3.5 Conclusions
- 4 Improving Pulsar Timing Precision through Optimal TOA Creation
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Observations and Analysis Procedure
- 4.3 Results
- 4.3.1 PSRs J0030+0451 and J20101323
- 4.3.2 PSR J1012+5307
- 4.3.3 PSR J1022+1001
- 4.3.4 PSR J16003053
- 4.3.5 PSR J19093744
- 4.3.6 PSR J19180642
- 4.3.7 Other Pulsars
- 4.4 Conclusions
- 5 Noise Analysis of Six Pulsars and a Limit on the Gravitational Wave Background
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Data Model and Analysis Method
- 5.2.1 Noise Model
- 5.2.2 Gravitational Wave Background Model
- 5.2.3 Bayesian Analysis of Pulsar Timing Array Data
- 5.3 Comparing Datasets within a Bayesian Pulsar Timing Array Analysis
- 5.4 Results
- 5.5 Summary and Conclusion
- 6 Conclusions and Future Research
- References
- Appendix A Pulsar Profiles