Module 4: Simulating pulsar data sets
Overview
Aims and objectives- Learn how to simulate data sets using tempo2
- Consider how to limit the maximum size of a signal in a data set
- Understand the effects of fitting a pulsar timing model on gravitational wave signals
- Learn how to simulate a gravitational wave background
- TEMPO2: a new pulsar timing package - III. Gravitational wave simulation, Hobbs et al. (2010; MNRAS)
- Upper Bounds on the Low-Frequency Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Pulsar Timing Observations: Current Limits and Future Prospects, Jenet at al., (2006; ApJ)
- Placing limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background using European Pulsar Timing Array data, van Haasteren et al (2011; MNRAS)
- The sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to individual sources of gravitational waves, Yardley et al. (2010; MNRAS)
For tempo2 implementation speak with: George Hobbs, Ryan Shannon or Mike Keith.
For general questions on gravitational waves speak with: Fredrick Jenet, Jim Cordes or Yuri Levin.
Experts to discuss this with during the science meetingThe tempo2 simulation software has been put together by Fredrick Jenet, George Hobbs, Ryan Shannon, Mike Keith, William Coles, Jingbo Wang and Sarah Burke Spolaor.
There will be many people at the science meeting that are experts on how gravitational waves affect pulsar timing residuals. Such people include William Coles, Rutger van Haasteren, Fredrick Jenet, Paul Demorest, Jim Cordes, Kejia Lee, Andrea Lommen and Yuri Levin.