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Caption: Figure 2.
Median magnitude and position angle (measured from north to east) and 1σ confidence range for pulsar timing models with increasing numbers of Fourier components. The Fourier modes have frequencies of ﹩N/{T}_{\mathrm{obs}}﹩, with Tobs ∼ 10 yr. The two-component timing solution produces a poor fit and a discrepant proper motion measurement, while models with four or more Fourier components simply absorb statistical fluctuations and decrease the measurement precision. With the 10-component model, the proper motion is unconstrained, as there is strong degeneracy between the Fourier component with frequency ∼1 yr and the pulsar position. Values of the magnitude for two and 10 components are above the upper figure boundary.
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