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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they create in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. The mean correlation, a function of the angle between the directions to two pulsars, was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Bruce Allen , Joseph D. Romano

Unlike ground-based gravitational wave detectors, space-based gravitational wave detectors can detect the ringdown signals from massive black hole mergers with large signal-to-noise ratios, help to localize sources and extract their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Chunyu Zhang , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang

This paper studies the use of optical lattice clock (OLC) detector networks for detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). Starting from the cross-correlation formalism for two OLC detectors, we analyze how the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Mingzhi Lou , Hong Su , Tao Yang , Yun-Long Zhang

In future gravitational-wave (GW) detections, a large number of overlapping GW signals will appear in the data stream of detectors. When extracting information from one signal, the presence of other signals can cause large parameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Ziming Wang , Dicong Liang , Junjie Zhao , Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

The pulsar timings are sensitive to both the nanohertz gravitational-wave background and the oscillation of ultralight dark matter. The Hellings-Downs angular correlation curve provides a criterion to search for stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-14 Rong-Gen Cai , Jing-Rui Zhang , Yun-Long Zhang

Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have recently provided strong evidence for the signal of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nHz-frequency band. These experiments have shown a statistical preference for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We discuss prospects for direct measurement of stochastic gravitational wave background around 0.1-1Hz with future space missions. It is assumed to use correlation analysis technique with the optimal TDI variables for two sets of LISA-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto

We present an efficient technique for calculating the angular two-point correlation functions (or ``overlap reduction functions'') induced by gravitational waves in both the pulse arrival times of pulsars and in the angular deflections of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-27 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski , Celia M. Toral , Stephen R. Taylor

We assess the detectability of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background with respect to additive red and white noise in the timing of millisecond pulsars. We develop detection criteria based on the cross-correlation function summed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

Transient signals of instrumental and environmental origins ("glitches") in gravitational wave data elevate the false alarm rate of searches for astrophysical signals and reduce their sensitivity. Glitches that directly overlap…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Soumya D. Mohanty , Mohammad A. T. Chowdhury

In the coming years, third-generation detectors such as Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will enter the network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. Their current design predicts a significantly improved sensitivity band with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Justin Janquart , Tomasz Baka , Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

Space-based gravitational wave detection is based on the astrodynamical equations derived from gravitational theory to detect changes in distance between spacecraft/celestial bodies and/or their state changes caused by gravitational waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Wei-Tou Ni

The random superposition of many weak sources will produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves that may dominate the response of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave observatory. Unless something can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Neil J. Cornish

We cross correlate the gravitational lensing map extracted from cosmic microwave background measurements by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) with the radio galaxy distribution from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) by using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-24 Chang Feng , Grigor Aslanyan , Aneesh V. Manohar , Brian Keating , Hans P. Paar , Oliver Zahn

We present a systematic study of likelihood functions used for Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) searches. By dividing the data into many short segments, one customarily takes advantage of the Central Limit Theorem to justify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Joseph D. Romano

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars allow us to probe the strong and dynamical field regime of gravity. On the other hand, a collective signal from many individual, unresolved sources results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Alexander Saffer , Kent Yagi

The gravitational wave detectors currently in operation perform the analysis of their scientific data jointly. Concerning the search for bursting sources, coherent data analysis methods have been shown to be more efficient. In the coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-01 Olivier Rabaste , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Archana Pai

We study how to probe bispectra of stochastic gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. The bispectrum is a key to probe the origin of stochastic gravitational waves. In particular, the shape of the bispectrum carries valuable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-25 Makoto Tsuneto , Asuka Ito , Toshifumi Noumi , Jiro Soda

The maximum likelihood method is often used for parameter estimation in gravitational wave astronomy. Recently, an interesting approach was proposed by Vallisneri to evaluate the distributions of parameter estimation errors expected for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

Uncertainty in the calibration of gravitational-wave (GW) detector data leads to systematic errors which must be accounted for in setting limits on the strength of GW signals. When cross-correlation measurements are made using data from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-07 John T. Whelan , Emma L. Robinson , Joseph D. Romano , Eric H. Thrane