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Parkes observations for project P895 semester 2016OCTS

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Title Parkes observations for project P895 semester 2016OCTS
 
Creator George Hobbs
 
Subject Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
 
Description Since the year 2005, the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project has been placing ever more stringent constraints on the amplitude of a gravitational wave background signal. Our most recent constraints rule out the standard models for galaxy formation and black hole evolution. It is essential for the PPTA project, its Northern Hemisphere counterparts and key science projects on MeerKAT and the SKA to know the amplitude of the expected gravitational wave signal. We therefore propose to observe our most precisely timed pulsar, PSR J1909-3744, regularly in order to either obtain the lowest bound possible before MeerKAT and the SKA are commissioned or to identify the characteristic gravitational wave signal in the data set for this single pulsar.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Dick Manchester
John Sarkissian
Matthew Bailes
Ramesh Bhat
Michael Keith
William Coles
Willem van Straten
Lawrence Toomey
xiaopeng You
Vikram Ravi
Stefan Oslowski
Matthew Kerr
James Dempsey
Ryan Shannon
Jingbo Wang
Yuri Levin
Linqing Wen
Xingjiang Zhu
Shi Dai
Paul Lasky
Sarah Burke
Daniel John Reardon
Pablo Rosado
 
Date 2017-05-26
 
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Identifier csiro:P895-2016OCTS
 
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