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author Susobhanan, Abhimanyu
Paladi, Avinash Kumar
Desmecht, Réka
Amarnath
Bagchi, Manjari
Chakraborty, Manoneeta
Chowdhury, Shaswata
Das, Suruj Jyoti
Deb, Debabrata
Desai, Shantanu
Dwivedi, Churchil
Grover, Himanshu
Jose, Jibin
Joshi, Bhal Chandra
Kala, Shubham
Kareem, Fazal
Meena, Kuldeep
Mondal, Sushovan
Nobleson, K
B, Arul Pandian
Rai, Kaustubh
Shukla, Adya
Singh, Manpreet
Srivastava, Aman
Surnis, Mayuresh
Tahbildar, Hemanga
Takahashi, Keitaro
Tarafdar, Pratik
Vara, Kunjal
Vyasraj, Vaishnavi
Zuraiq, Zenia
author_facet Susobhanan, Abhimanyu
Paladi, Avinash Kumar
Desmecht, Réka
Amarnath
Bagchi, Manjari
Chakraborty, Manoneeta
Chowdhury, Shaswata
Das, Suruj Jyoti
Deb, Debabrata
Desai, Shantanu
Dwivedi, Churchil
Grover, Himanshu
Jose, Jibin
Joshi, Bhal Chandra
Kala, Shubham
Kareem, Fazal
Meena, Kuldeep
Mondal, Sushovan
Nobleson, K
B, Arul Pandian
Rai, Kaustubh
Shukla, Adya
Singh, Manpreet
Srivastava, Aman
Surnis, Mayuresh
Tahbildar, Hemanga
Takahashi, Keitaro
Tarafdar, Pratik
Vara, Kunjal
Vyasraj, Vaishnavi
Zuraiq, Zenia
contents In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved integrated pulse profile. We present a new method for performing wideband measurements that rigorously accounts for measurement noise. We demonstrate this method using observations of PSR J2124$-$3358 made as part of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array experiment using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope, and show that our method produces more realistic measurement uncertainty estimates compared to the existing wideband measurement method.
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spellingShingle Revisiting wideband pulsar timing measurements
Susobhanan, Abhimanyu
Paladi, Avinash Kumar
Desmecht, Réka
Amarnath
Bagchi, Manjari
Chakraborty, Manoneeta
Chowdhury, Shaswata
Das, Suruj Jyoti
Deb, Debabrata
Desai, Shantanu
Dwivedi, Churchil
Grover, Himanshu
Jose, Jibin
Joshi, Bhal Chandra
Kala, Shubham
Kareem, Fazal
Meena, Kuldeep
Mondal, Sushovan
Nobleson, K
B, Arul Pandian
Rai, Kaustubh
Shukla, Adya
Singh, Manpreet
Srivastava, Aman
Surnis, Mayuresh
Tahbildar, Hemanga
Takahashi, Keitaro
Tarafdar, Pratik
Vara, Kunjal
Vyasraj, Vaishnavi
Zuraiq, Zenia
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved integrated pulse profile. We present a new method for performing wideband measurements that rigorously accounts for measurement noise. We demonstrate this method using observations of PSR J2124$-$3358 made as part of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array experiment using the upgraded Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope, and show that our method produces more realistic measurement uncertainty estimates compared to the existing wideband measurement method.
title Revisiting wideband pulsar timing measurements
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01288