High precision timing with the EPTA

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Author K. Lazaridis
URL http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1002.0737L
Date February 1, 2010
Accessed 2010-02-04 19:30:56
Abstract The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) network is a collaboration between the five largest radio telescopes in Europe aiming to study the astrophysics of millisecond pulsars and to detect cosmological gravitational waves in the nano-Hertz regime. The advantages and techniques of handling the multi-telescope datasets of a number of sources will be presented. In addition, the results of the EPTA timing analysis of the pulsar-white dwarf binary PSR J1012+5307 will be reported. Specifically, the measurements for the first time for this system, of the parallax, the variation of the projected semi-major axis and of the orbital period. Finally, the derived stringent, theory independent limits on alternative theories of gravity, with the use of this ideal laboratory for strong- field gravity tests, will be presented.
Website Title ArXiv e-prints
Date Added 2010-02-04 14:38
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