MeerTime MSP Census
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Spiewak, Renee1
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Bailes, Matthew2
- Miles, Matthew T2
- Parthasarathy, Aditya3
- Reardon, Daniel J2
- Shamohammadi, Mohsen2
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Shannon, Ryan M2
- Bhat, N D Ramesh4
- Buchner, Sarah5
- Camilo, Fernando5
- Johnston, Simon6
- Geyer, Marisa5
- Karastergiou, Aris7
- Keith, Michael1
- Kramer, Michael3
- Serylak, Maciej8
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van Straten, Willem9
- Theureau, Gilles10
- Venkatraman Krishnan, Vivek3
- 1. University of Manchester
- 2. Swinburne University of Technology
- 3. Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie
- 4. Curtin University
- 5. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
- 6. CSIRO Space and Astronomy
- 7. Oxford University
- 8. Square Kilometre Array Observatory
- 9. Auckland University of Technology
- 10. Universite d'Orleans, CNRS
Description
Data table and PSRFITS-format files associated with Spiewak et al. 2022, "The MeerTime Pulsar Timing Array -- A Census of Emission Properties and Timing Potential" (doi:10.1017/pasa.2022.19). The zipped tar file contains one PSRFITS-format file per pulsar, containing a profile, summed from multiple observations with varying lengths, with 1024 phase bins across the profile, 1 subintegration, 8 frequency channels across the 775.75-MHz band, and 4 polarization channels (with the up-to-date rotation measures and dispersion measures in the headers).
The columns in the data table (in csv format) are as follows:
PSRJ : the pulsar name (J2000)
PTA_SCR : boolean indicating whether the pulsar is part of the MPTA
REF_SH : short form of the reference (psrcat-style)
GL, GB : Galactic longitude and latitude
P0, P1 : pulse period and period derivative in (s) and (s/s), respectively
DM, DM_ERR, DMEPOCH : the dispersion measure of a single epoch, with 1-sigma uncertainty, and the MJD for that epoch
RM, RM_ERR : the rotation measure, as described in the paper, with uncertainty
RM_SNG : boolean indicating whether the RM was measured from the summed archive (True indicates the RM_ERR is the 1-sigma uncertainty from `rmfit` and False indicates the RM_ERR is the standard deviation of all measured RMs after outlier removal)
L_FRAC, L_FRAC_ERR : the fractional linear polarization and uncertainty
V_FRAC, V_FRAC_ERR : the fractional circular polarization and uncertainty
ABS_V_FRAC, ABS_V_FRAC_ERR : the fractional absolute circular polarization (from `psrchive`) and uncertainty
TOA_ERR_NEW : the median ToA uncertainty, as described in the paper
SPIND, SPIND_ERR : the spectral index from a power law fit to the flux density per band and uncertainty
NOBS : number of unique observations of the pulsar included in this analysis
S1400, S1400_ERR : the flux density at 1400 MHz from a power law fit to the flux density per band, and uncertainty
FLUX_n_VAL, FLUX_n_ERR, FLUX_n_FRQ : flux density information per frequency band (n=0-7), the mean value, the formal error on the mean, and the mean frequency of the band
Files
MPTA_Census_Out.csv
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- Journal article: 10.1017/pasa.2022.19 (DOI)