TEMPO2, a new pulsar timing package. III: Gravitational wave simulation
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract
Analysis of pulsar timing data-sets may provide the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This paper, the third in a series describing the mathematical framework implemented into the tempo2 pulsar timing package, reports on using tempo2 to simulate the timing residuals induced by gravitational waves. The tempo2 simulations can be used to provide upper bounds on the amplitude of an isotropic, stochastic, gravitational wave background in our Galaxy and to determine the sensitivity of a given pulsar timing experiment to individual, supermassive, binary black hole systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.0592,
title = {TEMPO2, a new pulsar timing package. III: Gravitational wave simulation},
author = {G. Hobbs and F. Jenet and K. J. Lee and J. P. W. Verbiest and D. Yardley and R. Manchester and A. Lommen and W. Coles and R. Edwards and C. Shettigara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.0592},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted by MNRAS