Pulsar Timing Simulator for the testing of Gravitational Wave Analysis Pipelines

POSTER

Abstract

We are developing a pulsar pulse time-of-arrival simulator based on SPICE, the solar system ephemeris software package developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Currently, the analysis and simulation of pulsar timing data has been predominantly carried out using either the TEMPO or TEMPO2 software packages. This completely TEMPO-independent simulation will enable full end-to-end testing of these packages as well as the data analysis pipe-lines based on these packages. This includes pipe-lines that will be used to detect and study gravitational waves. This poster describes the current design of the new package, its capabilities and limitations, and well as the results of preliminary tests of the TEMPO2 package.

Authors

  • Jing Luo

    University of Texas at Brownsville

  • Hanu Arava

    University of Houston, University of Texas at Brownsville, None, Univ of Texas, San Antonio, University of Texas at El Paso, Univ of Arizona, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas at Brownsville, Laboratoire des Mat\'eriaux Avanc\'es, Universit\'e Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UTEP, University of Texas, Austin, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Texas at Arlington, The University of Texas at Arlington, MIT, U. Mass. Dartmouth, Texas A{\&}M University, Texas Christian University, Laboratoire des Mat\'erieux Avanc\'es B\^atiment Virgo, Ion Beam Materials Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Texas A\&M University, Accelerator Research Laboratory, University of Florida, The Ohio State University, Yale University, University of Guelph, Canada, Armagh Observatory, NASA-Ames, NASA-Goddard, Texas A\&M University-Commerce, Texas A\&M University, Hanyang University, Texas A\&M Univ, Department of Pharmacy, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, Physics Department, Texas State University at San Marcos