השוואת שיטות

	אסטרומטריה (היסט)	מערך תזמון פולסרים
תחום	אסטרונומיה	אסטרונומיה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	1838	1979
הוגה השיטה	Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel	Stephen Detweiler
סוג	Astrometric distance measurement	Observational timing method
מקור מכונן	ESA (1997). The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues. Astrometric and photometric star catalogue. European Space Agency Technical Reports, SP-1200.	Sazhin, M. V. (1978). Opportunities for detecting ultralong gravitational waves. Soviet Astronomy, 22, 36-38.
כינויים	Stellar Parallax, Trigonometric Parallax, Parallax Distance Method	PTA, Millisecond Pulsar Timing, Pulsar Timing Residuals
קשורות	3	3
תקציר	Astrometric parallax is the foundational geometric method for measuring distances to nearby stars, based on observing the apparent shift in a star's position as Earth orbits the Sun. First successfully demonstrated by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel in 1838 for the star 61 Cygni, parallax remains the most direct and reliable distance measurement in astronomy, anchoring the entire cosmic distance ladder.	A pulsar timing array uses multiple millisecond pulsars as a distributed network of gravitational wave detectors across the galaxy. Proposed theoretically by Stephen Detweiler in 1979, this method exploits the extraordinary timing precision of pulsars to detect the subtle spacetime distortions caused by gravitational waves. In 2023, the first evidence for a stochastic background of gravitational waves was announced using pulsar timing arrays.