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Solar System Ephemerides, Pulsar Timing, Gravitational Waves, & Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

T. Joseph W. Lazio ,
S. Bhaskaran ,
C. Cutler ,
W. M. Folkner ,
R. S. Park ,
J. A. Ellis ,
T. Ely ,
S. R. Taylor  and
M. Vallisneri
T. Joseph W. Lazio
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
S. Bhaskaran
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
C. Cutler
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
W. M. Folkner
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
R. S. Park
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
J. A. Ellis
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506USA
T. Ely
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
S. R. Taylor
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125USA
M. Vallisneri
Affiliation:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109USA
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In-spiraling supermassive black holes should emit gravitational waves, which would produce characteristic distortions in the time of arrival residuals from millisecond pulsars. Multiple national and regional consortia have constructed pulsar timing arrays by precise timing of different sets of millisecond pulsars. An essential aspect of precision timing is the transfer of the times of arrival to a (quasi-)inertial frame, conventionally the solar system barycenter. The barycenter is determined from the knowledge of the planetary masses and orbits, which has been refined over the past 50 years by multiple spacecraft. Within the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), uncertainties on the solar system barycenter are emerging as an important element of the NANOGrav noise budget. We describe what is known about the solar system barycenter, touch upon how uncertainties in it affect gravitational wave studies with pulsar timing arrays, and consider future trends in spacecraft navigation.

Keywords

gravitational wavesmethods: data analysisephemerides
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 150 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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