Nancay radiotelescope as part of the international Pulsar Timing campaigns

2009/11/09 by I. Cognard, Cognard, I., G. Theureau +6
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #astro-ph.CO #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0911.1612

4 pages, 2 figures, proceeding of 'Windows on the Universe', XXI Rencontres de Blois, France, June 21-26 2009

arxiv created 2009/11/09 · openalex publication_date 2009/11/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Nancay radiotelescope is involved in high precision timing since 20 years. Since 2004, a coherent dedispersion instrumentation enables numerous routine observations on more than 200 pulsars using half of the time if this 100-meters class radiotelescope. Two main programs are currently conducted. A large set of young and old pulsars is timed for a multi-wavelength approach, complementary to the very successful high energy observations of pulsars done by FERMI. A set of highly stable millisecond pulsars is monitored as our contribution to the European Pulsar Timing Array in order to probe the cosmological Gravitational Wave Background.

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