Publications

An up-to-date list of publications from the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

  1. Discovery of Two Consecutive Profile Change Events in the Millisecond Pulsar PSR J0437-4715
    Mandow, Rami F., Zic, Andrew, Dawson, J. R., Wang, Shuangqiang, Curyło, Małgorzata, Bhat, Bhavnesh, Keith, Michael J., Bhat, N. D. Ramesh, Carli, Emma, Dai, Shi, et al., arXiv e-prints, 2026, arXiv:2609.15263
  2. A Transdimensional Sampling Framework for Pulsar Timing Noise Modeling
    Di Marco, Valentina, Guttman, Nir, Miles, Matthew T., Zic, Andrew, Shannon, Ryan M., Thrane, Eric, The Astrophysical Journal, 2026, 1008, 234
  3. Time-Correlated Profile Variability in the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array
    Bhat, Bhavnesh, Keith, Michael J., Carli, E., Shannon, R. M., Stappers, Benjamin W., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2026, N
  4. Interplanetary scintillation-informed heliospheric modelling for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array 4.5 yr data set
    Mishra, Saurav, Reardon, Daniel J., Zic, Andrew, Bailes, Matthew, Morgan, John, Kulkarni, Atharva D., Miles, Matthew T., Shannon, Ryan M., Tiburzi, Caterina, Cheung, Mark, et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2026, 550, stag1317
  5. JUG: JAX-based Unified pulsar timinG
    Miles, Matthew T., Taylor, Stephen R., Bailes, Matthew, Chalumeau, Aurelien, Cromartie, H. Thankful, Gersbach, Kyle A., van Haasteren, Rutger, Keith, Michael J., Laal, Nima, Lam, Michael T., et al., arXiv e-prints, 2026, arXiv:2608.27786
  6. Narrowband Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from known Pulsars in the First Two Parts of the Fourth LIGO─Virgo─KAGRA Observing Run
    Abac, A. G., Abouelfettouh, I., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adam, A., Adamcewicz, C., Adhicary, S., Adhikari, D., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R. X., et al., The Astrophysical Journal, 2026, 1005, 221
  7. Optimising gravitational-wave sky maps for pulsar timing arrays
    Grunthal, Kathrin, Champion, David J., Thrane, Eric, Nathan, Rowina S., Kramer, Michael, Miles, Matthew T., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2026, 706, A352
  8. A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0900−3144
    Bhat, Bhavnesh, Keith, Michael J., Cognard, Ismaël, Guillemot, Lucas, Lower, Marcus E., Miles, Matthew T., Reardon, Daniel J., Shaifullah, Golam, Shannon, Ryan M., Stappers, Benjamin W., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2026, 545, staf2034
  9. A Carbon-rich Atmosphere on a Windy Pulsar Planet
    Zhang, Michael, Beleznay, Maya, Brandt, Timothy D., Romani, Roger W., Gao, Peter, Beltz, Hayley, Bailes, Matthew, Nixon, Matthew C., Bean, Jacob L., Komacek, Thaddeus D., et al., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025, 995, L64
  10. Measuring scattering variations in pulsar timing observations: a test of the fidelity of current methods
    Kulkarni, A. D., Shannon, R. M., Reardon, D. J., Miles, M. T., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 544, 2795
  11. Optimising the MeerKAT pulsar timing array and towards precision pulsar timing with SKA-mid
    Gitika, Pratyasha, Shannon, Ryan M., Bailes, Matthew, Reardon, Daniel J., Miles, Matthew T., Champion, David J., Grunthal, Kathrin, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2025, 42, e146
  12. Choosing Suitable Noise Models for Nanohertz Gravitational-wave Astrophysics
    Di Marco, Valentina, Zic, Andrew, Shannon, Ryan M., Thrane, Eric, Kulkarni, Atharva D., The Astrophysical Journal, 2025, 990, 85
  13. Bow shock and Local Bubble plasma unveiled by the scintillating millisecond pulsar J0437‒4715
    Reardon, Daniel J., Main, Robert, Ocker, Stella Koch, Shannon, Ryan M., Bailes, Matthew, Camilo, Fernando, Geyer, Marisa, Jameson, Andrew, Kramer, Michael, Parthasarathy, Aditya, et al., Nature Astronomy, 2025, 9, 1053
  14. A simple optimization for the MeerKAT pulsar timing array
    Middleton, Hannah, Shannon, Ryan M., Bailes, Matthew, Cameron, Andrew D., Corongiu, Alessandro, Geyer, Marisa, Jones, Max, Kramer, Michael, Miles, Matthew T., Parthasarathy, Aditya, et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 540, 603
  15. Timing and noise analysis of five millisecond pulsars observed with MeerKAT
    Chisabi, M., Andrianomena, S., Enwelum, U., Gasennelwe, E. G., Idris, A., Idogbe, E. A., Shilunga, S., Geyer, M., Reardon, D. J., Okany, C. F., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 537, 2462
  16. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: the 4.5-yr data release and the noise and stochastic signals of the millisecond pulsar population
    Miles, Matthew T., Shannon, Ryan M., Reardon, Daniel J., Bailes, Matthew, Champion, David J., Geyer, Marisa, Gitika, Pratyasha, Grunthal, Kathrin, Keith, Michael J., Kramer, Michael, et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 536, 1467
  17. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: the first search for gravitational waves with the MeerKAT radio telescope
    Miles, Matthew T., Shannon, Ryan M., Reardon, Daniel J., Bailes, Matthew, Champion, David J., Geyer, Marisa, Gitika, Pratyasha, Grunthal, Kathrin, Keith, Michael J., Kramer, Michael, et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 536, 1489
  18. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: Maps of the gravitational wave sky with the 4.5-yr data release
    Grunthal, Kathrin, Nathan, Rowina S., Thrane, Eric, Champion, David J., Miles, Matthew T., Shannon, Ryan M., Kulkarni, Atharva D., Abbate, Federico, Buchner, Sarah, Cameron, Andrew D., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025, 536, 1501
  19. Understanding Noise Modelling of best-timed millisecond pulsars in MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array Dataset
    Singha, Jaikhomba, Rahman, Md Atiqur, Shannon, Ryan M., Miles, Matthew T., Geyer, Marisa, 32nd General Assembly International Union (IAUGA 2024), 2024, 1785
  20. Search for alternative GW polarisation modes in the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array data.
    Rahman, Md Atiqur, Singha, Jaikhomba, Geyer, Marisa, Shannon, Ryan, Miles, Matthew T., 32nd General Assembly International Union (IAUGA 2024), 2024, 1784
  21. MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array parallaxes and proper motions
    Shamohammadi, M., Bailes, M., Flynn, C., Reardon, D. J., Shannon, R. M., Buchner, S., Cameron, A. D., Camilo, F., Corongiu, A., Geyer, M., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 530, 287
  22. An insight into chromatic behaviour of jitter in pulsars and its modelling: a case study of PSR J0437-4715
    Kulkarni, A. D., Shannon, R. M., Reardon, D. J., Miles, M. T., Bailes, M., Shamohammadi, M., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024, 528, 3658
  23. Flux density monitoring of 89 millisecond pulsars with MeerKAT
    Gitika, P., Bailes, M., Shannon, R. M., Reardon, D. J., Cameron, A. D., Shamohammadi, M., Miles, M. T., Flynn, C. M. L., Corongiu, A., Kramer, M., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 526, 3370
  24. Toward Robust Detections of Nanohertz Gravitational Waves
    Di Marco, Valentina, Zic, Andrew, Miles, Matthew T., Reardon, Daniel J., Thrane, Eric, Shannon, Ryan M., The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 956, 14
  25. Improving pulsar-timing solutions through dynamic pulse fitting
    Nathan, Rowina S., Miles, Matthew T., Ashton, Gregory, Lasky, Paul D., Thrane, Eric, Reardon, Daniel J., Shannon, Ryan M., Cameron, Andrew D., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 523, 4405
  26. Searches for Shapiro delay in seven binary pulsars using the MeerKAT telescope
    Shamohammadi, M., Bailes, M., Freire, P. C. C., Parthasarathy, A., Reardon, D. J., Shannon, R. M., Venkatraman Krishnan, V., Bernadich, M. C. i., Cameron, A. D., Champion, D. J., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 520, 1789
  27. The MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array: first data release
    Miles, M. T., Shannon, R. M., Bailes, M., Reardon, D. J., Keith, M. J., Cameron, A. D., Parthasarathy, A., Shamohammadi, M., Spiewak, R., van Straten, W., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 519, 3976
  28. The MeerTime Pulsar Timing Array: A census of emission properties and timing potential
    Spiewak, R., Bailes, M., Miles, M. T., Parthasarathy, A., Reardon, D. J., Shamohammadi, M., Shannon, R. M., Bhat, N. D. R., Buchner, S., Cameron, A. D., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2022, 39, e027
  29. Mode changing in J1909 - 3744: the most precisely timed pulsar
    Miles, M. T., Shannon, R. M., Bailes, M., Reardon, D. J., Buchner, S., Middleton, H., Spiewak, R., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, 510, 5908
  30. Measurements of pulse jitter and single-pulse variability in millisecond pulsars using MeerKAT
    Parthasarathy, A., Bailes, M., Shannon, R. M., van Straten, W., Osłowski, S., Johnston, S., Spiewak, R., Reardon, D. J., Kramer, M., Venkatraman Krishnan, V., et al., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 502, 407
  31. The MeerKAT telescope as a pulsar facility: System verification and early science results from MeerTime
    Bailes, M., Jameson, A., Abbate, F., Barr, E. D., Bhat, N. D. R., Bondonneau, L., Burgay, M., Buchner, S. J., Camilo, F., Champion, D. J., et al., Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2020, 37, e028