Possible errors in the planetary masses and orbital elements in the used SSE can induce TOA delays in the PTA pulsars with dipolar spatial correlations (we denote this with EPH). These signals reflect the oscillation of the calculated Solar system barycentre position with respect to the true position. As in the case a of clock-error signal, this can also be exploited in order to provide upper limits or measurements of planetary parameters using PTA data (see e.g. Champion et al. 2010; Caballero et al. 2018; Guo et al. 2019). Unlike the other signals discussed in this Section, the SSE signals are deterministic signals associated with planetary orbits.
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