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High-precision astrometry offers a promising approach to detect low-frequency gravitational waves, complementing pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. We explore the response of astrometric measurements to a stochastic gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 N. M. Jiménez Cruz , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

We present a method of searching for, and parameterizing, signals from known radio pulsars in data from interferometric gravitational wave detectors. This method has been applied to data from the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors to set upper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Réjean J. Dupuis , Graham Woan

The number of known millisecond pulsars has dramatically increased in the last few years. Regular observations of these pulsars may allow gravitational waves with frequencies ~10^-9 Hz to be detected. A ``pulsar timing array'' is therefore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Hobbs

Gravitational Waves (GWs) are tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are well poised to detect low frequency ($10^{-9}$ -- $10^{-7}$ Hz) GWs in the near future. There…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. A. Ellis , F. A. Jenet , M. A. McLaughlin

In a recent paper we described a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non-Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. In this work we propose an improved version of the detection procedure, preserving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Matteo Ballelli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Barbara Patricelli , Anirban Ain , Giancarlo Cella

We develop a method to perform an untargeted Bayesian search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds that can efficiently and accurately reconstruct the background intensity map. Our method employs an analytic marginalization of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolas Yunes

One of the guaranteed features of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is the presence of Doppler anisotropies induced by the motion of the detector with respect to the rest frame of the SGWB source. We point out that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Giulia Cusin , Gianmassimo Tasinato

A nanohertz-frequency stochastic gravitational-wave background can potentially be detected through the precise timing of an array of millisecond pulsars. This background produces low-frequency noise in the pulse arrival times that would…

Once upon a time, predictions for the accuracy of inference on gravitational-wave signals relied on computationally inexpensive but often inaccurate techniques. Recently, the approach has shifted to actual inference on noisy signals with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Carl-Johan Haster , Ilya Mandel , Will M. Farr

The stochastic cosmological gravitational-wave background (CGWB) provides a direct window to study early universe phenomena and fundamental physics. With the proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Ashish Sharma , Jan Harms

We discuss the sensitivity to anisotropies of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In addition to the unresolved galactic binaries as the most promising GWB source of the planned Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

The search for gamma-ray counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) requires accurate and robust background modeling. Previous CALET observing runs (O3 and O4) relied on averaged pre/post-event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Bisweswar Sen

With strong evidence of a common-spectrum stochastic process in the most recent datasets from the NANOGrav Collaboration, the European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), Parkes PTA, and the International PTA, it is crucial to assess the effects of…

The detection of a stochastic background of low-frequency gravitational waves by pulsar-timing and astrometric surveys will enable tests of gravitational theories beyond general relativity. These theories generally permit gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Wenzer Qin , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

We discuss a robust data analysis method to detect a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. In contrast to the standard cross-correlation (SCC) statistic frequently used in the stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiaki Himemoto , Atsushi Taruya , Hideaki Kudoh , Takashi Hiramatsu

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, currently in their preparatory phase, have the potential to significantly improve our understanding of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau , Nelson Christensen

A Bayesian approach is presented for detecting and characterising the signal from discrete objects embedded in a diffuse background. The approach centres around the evaluation of the posterior distribution for the parameters of the discrete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. P. Hobson , C. McLachlan

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are currently the only experiments directly sensitive to gravitational waves with decade-long periods. Within the next five to ten years, PTAs are expected to detect the stochastic gravitational-wave background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Tristan L. Smith , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

In the next decade gravitational waves might be detected using a pulsar timing array. In an effort to develop optimal detection strategies for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves in generic metric theories of gravity, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Sydney J. Chamberlin , Xavier Siemens

The spatial and temporal discreteness of gravitational wave sources leads to shot noise that may, in some regimes, swamp any attempts at measuring the anisotropy of the gravitational wave background. Cross-correlating a gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 David Alonso , Giulia Cusin , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cyril Pitrou