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The art of precision pulsar timing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2010

Matthew Bailes
Matthew Bailes*
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, H39, PO Box 218, Hawthorn Vic, Australia, 3122 email: mbailes@swin.edu.au
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Abstract

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Pulsar timing has proven to be a wonderful tool with which to study neutron stars, providing insights into their ages, distances, proper motions, magnetic field strengths, internal structure, binary histories and evolution, and for tests of General Relativity. Here I describe how to optimise strategies for millisecond pulsar timing to enable the highest timing precision.

Keywords

PulsarsMillisecond PulsarsPrecision TimingGeneral RelativityGravitational Waves

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