Binary-pulsar Timing: A 3D Solar-System Accelerometer and Unknown-Source Probe

arXiv:2609.29162 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Comments welcome

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 3× in this paper
• Microlensing — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• APEX — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalized Least-Squares — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Studying the solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array
• Constraints on Dark Matter in the Solar System
• Astrometric precision tests on TESS data
• A New Probe of Dark Matter Subhalos: Stellar Aberration with TESS
• A Pulsar-Based Map of Galactic Acceleration
• Measuring the mass of solar system planets using pulsar timing
• Constraints on the acceleration of the solar system from high-precision timing
• Observing the Peculiar Acceleration of our Solar System with Quasar Proper Motions

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