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Testing No slip model with pulsar timing arrays: NANOGrav and IPTA

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-12-24 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We perform an observational study of modified gravity considering a potential inflationary interpretation of pulsar timing arrays (PTA). We use a motivated model known as no slip in which the gravitational wave propagation is modified. Specifically, by using two different parametrizations for the model, we find the approximate transfer functions for tensor perturbations. In this way, we obtain the spectral energy density of gravitational waves and use NANOGrav and IPTA second data release to constrain parameters of the model. We find that there is degeneracy between the model parameters ξ\xi and cMc_M. For cMc_M, we only get an upper bound on the parameter. Thus, it is difficult to constrain them with percent level accuracy with the current PTA data.

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@article{arxiv.2409.05956,
  title  = {Testing No slip model with pulsar timing arrays: NANOGrav and IPTA},
  author = {Mohammadreza Davari and Alireza Allahyari and Shahram Khosravi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05956},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables