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  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
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    • Funding Opportunities
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
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    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Reports >
      • Annual Reports
      • Industry Success Stories
      • Strategic Plan
    • Member resources
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students >
      • Faces of OzGrav
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    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Early Career Researcher Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data/Astro
    • How to write a research brief
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    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
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    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
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ozgrav pulsar timing inference workshop

When:  May 13-14 2019 (main workshop), May 15-17 2019 (busy week activities)
Venue:  Monday-Tuesday in AMDC 801.   Wednesday-Friday in AMDC level 9 offices (TBC)
Swinburne University, AMDC Building, Room 801, Hawthorn VIC 3122.
Organisers: Ryan Shannon, Hannah Middleton 
Registration: ​https://forms.gle/NBkKwQXQCFmBjKxo8

​Summary: With the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array data release expected soon, this is an opportune time for OzGrav members to share and gain skills in pulsar timing array analysis and inference and apply them to cutting-edge data sets.  This will be a 2.5+2.5 day workshop with the aim of building expertise within OzGrav members on pulsar timing array analysis and inference. The workshop will include presentations on pulsar timing array analysis and also tutorial sessions on using analysis software. This will allow OzGrav members, including PhD and masters students, to become familiar with the use of these tools and learn from attendees with expertise. Participants will also get hands-on experience working with the Parkes data sets, including being involved in the first gravitational wave searches with the data set. The workshop will also provide a “springboard” for enhancing existing tools and developing new tools for pulsar timing analysis.

Program

Pre-requisites before workshop:
  • Access to OzSTAR
  • Install Enterprise on Laptops/OzSTAR
  • Access to temponest on OzSTAR
  • Access to PPTA data sets
  • Prepare ipython notebooks

Day 1:  Single pulsar analysis
Lectures:
Introduction to pulsar timing 
Introduction to pulsar inference 
Young pulsar timing 

Tutorials:
Using tempo2 
Using enterprise 
Using temponest 
Simulating data (libstempo)
Activities:
Single pulsar analysis of PPTA pulsars
Discussion: Noise models for individual PPTA pulsars

Set up pipelines for stochastic background searches
Set up pipelines for continuous wave searches
Need to compare noise models for pulsars?


Day 2:  Correlated signals and Future Tools
Lectures:
Gravitational wave signal in the pulsar band 
Searches for gravitational wave signals 
Solar system ephemeris and other correlated signals
Profile domain timing 
Wide-band timing 

Tutorials/activities:
Searching for gravitational waves with Enterprise
Using Bayesephem
Continue to work on previous tutorials/start analysis of PPTA data sets

Days 3-5 (optional):  Continue to work on data sets/GW searches

Presentations:
  • Paul Lasky: Bayesian Inference 
  • Hannah Middleton: GWs in the pulsar band
  • Boris Goncharov: Intro to inference in pulsar timing
  • Marcus Lower, Aditya Parthasaranthy & Greg Ashton: Profile domain timing
  • Marcus Lower & Aditya Parthasaranthy: Pulsar inference tools
  • Xingjiang Zhu: Searches for GWs
  • Stephen Taylor: Solar system ephemeris noise
  • Tim Pennucci: Wideband Timing overview
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​© 2022   The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational  Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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