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The observation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is one of the goals of gravitational wave astronomy in the coming years. Massive (>10^8 solar masses) and low-redshift (< 1.5) sources are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) will be sensitive to a finite number of gravitational wave (GW) "point" sources (e.g. supermassive black hole binaries). N quiet pulsars with accurately known distances d_{pulsar} can characterize up to 2N/7…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Latham Boyle , Ue-Li Pen

A coherently oscillating ultra-light axion can behave as dark matter. In particular, its coherently oscillating pressure perturbations can source an oscillating scalar metric perturbation, with a characteristic oscillation frequency which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Jai-chan Hwang , Donghui Jeong , Hyerim Noh , Clemente Smarra

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are presently the only means to search for the gravitational wave stochastic background from supermassive black hole binary populations, considered to be within the grasp of current or near future observations.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 Hannah Middleton , Siyuan Chen , Walter Del Pozzo , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

We explore the potential of Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) such as NANOGrav, EPTA, and PPTA to detect the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in theories of massive gravity. In General Relativity, the function describing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Qiuyue Liang , Mark Trodden

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 M. Falxa , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , B. Bécsy , A. Chalumeau , S. Chen , Z. Chen , N. J. Cornish , L. Guillemot , J. S. Hazboun , C. M. F. Mingarelli , A. Parthasarathy , A. Petiteau , N. S. Pol , A. Sesana , S. B. Spolaor , S. R. Taylor , G. Theureau , M. Vallisneri , S. J. Vigeland , C. A. Witt , X. Zhu , J. Antoniadis , Z. Arzoumanian , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , L. Blecha , A. Brazier , P. R. Brook , N. Caballero , A. D. Cameron , J. A. Casey-Clyde , D. Champion , M. Charisi , S. Chatterjee , I. Cognard , J. M. Cordes , F. Crawford , H. T. Cromartie , K. Crowter , S. Dai , M. E. DeCesar , P. B. Demorest , G. Desvignes , T. Dolch , B. Drachler , Y. Feng , E. C. Ferrara , W. Fiore , E. Fonseca , N. Garver-Daniels , J. Glaser , B. Goncharov , D. C. Good , J. Griessmeier , Y. J. Guo , K. Gültekin , G. Hobbs , H. Hu , K. Islo , J. Jang , R. J. Jennings , A. D. Johnson , M. L. Jones , J. Kaczmarek , A. R. Kaiser , D. L. Kaplan , M. Keith , L. Z. Kelley , M. Kerr , J. S. Key , N. Laal , M. T. Lam , W. G. Lamb , T. J. W. Lazio , K. Liu , T. Liu , J. Luo , R. S. Lynch , D. R. Madison , R. Main , R. Manchester , A. McEwen , J. McKee , M. A. McLaughlin , C. Ng , D. J. Nice , S. Ocker , K. D. Olum , S. Osłowski , T. T. Pennucci , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , N. Porayko , A. Possenti , H. Quelquejay-Leclere , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , D. J. Reardon , C. J. Russell , A. Samajdar , J. Sarkissian , L. Schult , G. Shaifullah , R. M. Shannon , B. J. Shapiro-Albert , X. Siemens , J. J. Simon , M. Siwek , T. L. Smith , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , I. H. Stairs , B. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring , J. K. Swiggum , C. Tiburzi , J. Turner , A. Vecchio , J. P. W. Verbiest , H. Wahl , S. Q. Wang , J. Wang , J. Wang , Z. Wu , L. Zhang , S. Zhang

Individual supermassive black hole binaries in non-circular orbits are possible nanohertz gravitational wave sources for the rapidly maturing Pulsar Timing Array experiments. We develop an accurate and efficient approach to compute Pulsar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Achamveedu Gopakumar , George Hobbs , Stephen R. Taylor

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background, particularly radiation from individually unresolvable super-massive black hole binary systems, is one of the primary targets for Pulsar Timing Arrays. Increasingly more stringent upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Trevor Sidery , Ilya Mandel , Alberto Vecchio

Pulsar timing arrays (PTA) hunt for gravitational waves (GW) by searching for the correlations that GWs induce in the time-of-arrival residuals from different pulsars. If the GW sources are of astrophysical origin, then they are located at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Bruce Allen , Deepali Agarwal , Joseph D. Romano , Serena Valtolina

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) might detect gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole (MBH) binaries within this decade. The signal is expected to be an incoherent superposition of several nearly-monochromatic waves of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Antoine Petiteau , Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana , Mariana de Araujo

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are anticipated to detect the stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) from supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) as well as the gravitational waves from individual BBHs. Recently, a common process signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Yunfeng Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

We introduce a technique for gravitational-wave analysis, where Gaussian process regression is used to emulate the strain spectrum of a stochastic background using population-synthesis simulations. This leads to direct Bayesian inference on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph Simon , Laura Sampson

Supermassive black hole binaries, cosmic strings, relic gravitational waves from inflation, and first order phase transitions in the early universe are expected to contribute to a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the 10^(-9)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sydney J. Chamberlin , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Paul B. Demorest , Justin Ellis , Larry R. Price , Joseph D. Romano , Xavier Siemens

Within the next several years, pulsar-timing array programs will likely usher in the next era of gravitational-wave astronomy through the detection of a stochastic background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, originating from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Stephen R. Taylor , Rutger van Haasteren , Alberto Sesana

By inferring the gravitational wave background (GWB) from a population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) enable the study of massive black holes. In many ways, PTAs manifest the promise of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Nima Laal , Stephen R. Taylor , Cayenne Matt , Kayhan Gultekin

By regularly monitoring the most stable millisecond pulsars over many years, pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are positioned to detect and study correlations in the timing behaviour of those pulsars. Gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive…

We study the capability of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to individually resolve and localize in the sky monochromatic gravitational wave (GW) sources. Given a cosmological population of inspiralling massive black hole binaries, their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana

Super-massive black hole binaries are expected to produce a GW signal in the nano-Hertz frequency band which may be detected by PTAs in the coming years. The signal is composed of both stochastic and individually resolvable components. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Janna Goldstein , John Veitch , Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

Pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) are in the near future expected to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by a population of inspiralling super-massive black hole binaries. In this work, we consider a background that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have recently found strong evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) in the nanohertz frequency regime. As GWs pass, they produce deviations in measured lengths and light-travel times. PTA experiments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-05 Luke Zoltan Kelley