Limitations in timing precision due to single-pulse shape variability in millisecond pulsars

High-sensitivity radio-frequency observations of millisecond pulsars usually show stochastic, broad-band, pulse-shape variations intrinsic to the pulsar emission process. These variations induce jitter noise in pulsar timing observations; understanding the properties of this noise is of particular i...

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Main Authors: Shannon, R., Oslowski, S., Dai, S., Bailes, M., Hobbs, G., Manchester, R., van Straten, W., Raithel, C., Ravi, V., Toomey, L., Bhat, Ramesh, Burke-Spolaor, S., Coles, W., Keith, M., Kerr, M., Levin, Y., Sarkissian, J., Wang, J., Wen, L., Zhu, X.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/13332