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Special Purpose Pulsar Telescope for the Detection of Cosmic Gravitational Waves

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Pulsars can be used to search for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves of cosmological origin within the very low frequency band (VLF), 10710^{-7} to 10910^{-9} Hz. We propose to construct a special 50 m radio telescope. Regular timing measurements of about 10 strong millisecond pulsars will perhaps allow the detection of gravitational waves within VLF or at least will give a more stringent upper limits.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0212191,
  title  = {Special Purpose Pulsar Telescope for the Detection of Cosmic Gravitational Waves},
  author = {Shou-Guan Wang and Zong-Hong Zhu and Zhen-Long Zou and Yuan-Zhong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0212191},
  year   = {2008}
}

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5 pages, no figure, Latex file