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Next generation radio telescopes, namely the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), will revolutionize the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) based gravitational wave (GW) searches. We review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently presented evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal at nanohertz frequencies. In this paper, we introduce new refitting techniques for PTA data analysis that elevate related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-01 David Esmyol , Antonio J. Iovino , Kai Schmitz

The existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background is indicated by the recent pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments. We study the enhanced production of second-order gravitational waves from the scalar perturbations when the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kai Murai

Pulsar timing array (PTA) is expected to detect gravitational wave background (GWB) in the nanohertz band within the next decade. This provides an opportunity to test the gravity theory and cosmology. A typical data analysis method to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Yu Hu , Pan-Pan Wang , Yu-Jie Tan , Cheng-Gang Shao

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

Supermassive black hole binaries are promising sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) and bright electromagnetic emission. Pulsar timing array searches for resolved binaries are complex and computationally expensive and so far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-11 Maria Charisi , Stephen R. Taylor , Caitlin A. Witt , Jessie Runnoe

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required to resolve gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. However, the large uncertainty in source localization will make the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Niccolo Veronesi , Maria Charisi , Stephen R Taylor , Jessie Runnoe , Daniel J D'Orazio

Gravitational waves (GWs) influence the arrival times of radio signals coming from pulsars. Here, we investigate the harmonic space approach to describing a pulsar's response to GWs. We derive and discuss the "diagonalized form" of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-06 Bruce Allen

Gravitational-wave astronomy has developed enormously over the last decade, with the first detections and continuous development across broad frequency bands. However, the decihertz range has largely been left out of this development.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Lucas M. B. Alves , Andrew G. Sullivan , Xingyu Ji , Doğa Veske , Imre Bartos , Sebastian Will , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

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

NANOGrav and other Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have discovered a common-spectrum process in the nHz range that may be due to gravitational waves (GWs): if so, they are likely to have been generated by black hole (BH) binaries with total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 John Ellis , Malcolm Fairbairn , Gert Hütsi , Martti Raidal , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

A phase transition in the dark sector (DS) presents a promising explanation for the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signals detected in recent observations by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). Instead of focusing solely on fitting data with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Amitayus Banik , Yanou Cui , Yu-Dai Tsai , Yuhsin Tsai

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are Galactic-scale gravitational wave (GW) detectors consisting of precisely-timed pulsars distributed across the sky. Within the decade, PTAs are expected to detect the nanohertz GWs emitted by close-separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Tingting Liu , Tyler Cohen , Casey McGrath , Paul Demorest , Sarah Vigeland

Blue-tilted Gravitational Waves (BGWs) have been proposed as a potential candidate for the cosmic gravitational waves detected by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA). In the standard cosmological framework, BGWs are constrained in their frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Peter Athron , Marco Chianese , Satyabrata Datta , Rome Samanta , Ninetta Saviano

Detecting continuous nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) generated by individual close binaries of supermassive black holes (CB-SMBHs) is one of the primary objectives of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). The detection sensitivity is slated to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Yu-Yang Songsheng , Yi-Qian Qian , Yan-Rong Li , Pu Du , Jie-Wen Chen , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Jian-Min Wang

The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB). Given that each PTA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration , G. Agazie , J. Antoniadis , A. Anumarlapudi , A. M. Archibald , P. Arumugam , S. Arumugam , Z. Arzoumanian , J. Askew , S. Babak , M. Bagchi , M. Bailes , A. -S. Bak Nielsen , P. T. Baker , C. G. Bassa , A. Bathula , B. Bécsy , A. Berthereau , N. D. R. Bhat , L. Blecha , M. Bonetti , E. Bortolas , A. Brazier , P. R. Brook , M. Burgay , S. Burke-Spolaor , R. Burnette , R. N. Caballero , A. Cameron , R. Case , A. Chalumeau , D. J. Champion , S. Chanlaridis , M. Charisi , S. Chatterjee , K. Chatziioannou , B. D. Cheeseboro , S. Chen , Z. -C. Chen , I. Cognard , T. Cohen , W. A. Coles , J. M. Cordes , N. J. Cornish , F. Crawford , H. T. Cromartie , K. Crowter , M. Curyło , C. J. Cutler , S. Dai , S. Dandapat , D. Deb , M. E. DeCesar , D. DeGan , P. B. Demorest , H. Deng , S. Desai , G. Desvignes , L. Dey , N. Dhanda-Batra , V. Di Marco , T. Dolch , B. Drachler , C. Dwivedi , J. A. Ellis , M. Falxa , Y. Feng , R. D. Ferdman , E. C. Ferrara , W. Fiore , E. Fonseca , A. Franchini , G. E. Freedman , J. R. Gair , N. Garver-Daniels , P. A. Gentile , K. A. Gersbach , J. Glaser , D. C. Good , B. Goncharov , A. Gopakumar , E. Graikou , J. -M. Grießmeier , L. Guillemot , K. Gültekin , Y. J. Guo , Y. Gupta , K. Grunthal , J. S. Hazboun , S. Hisano , G. B. Hobbs , S. Hourihane , H. Hu , F. Iraci , K. Islo , D. Izquierdo-Villalba , J. Jang , J. Jawor , G. H. Janssen , R. J. Jennings , A. Jessner , A. D. Johnson , M. L. Jones , B. C. Joshi , A. R. Kaiser , D. L. Kaplan , A. Kapur , F. Kareem , R. Karuppusamy , E. F. Keane , M. J. Keith , L. Z. Kelley , M. Kerr , J. S. Key , D. Kharbanda , T. Kikunaga , T. C. Klein , N. Kolhe , M. Kramer , M. A. Krishnakumar , A. Kulkarni , N. Laal , K. Lackeos , M. T. Lam , W. G. Lamb , B. B. Larsen , T. J. W. Lazio , K. J. Lee , Y. Levin , N. Lewandowska , T. B. Littenberg , K. Liu , T. Liu , Y. Liu , A. Lommen , D. R. Lorimer , M. E. Lower , J. Luo , R. Luo , R. S. Lynch , A. G. Lyne , C. -P. Ma , Y. Maan , D. R. Madison , R. A. Main , R. N. Manchester , R. Mandow , M. A. Mattson , A. McEwen , J. W. McKee , M. A. McLaughlin , N. McMann , B. W. Meyers , P. M. Meyers , M. B. Mickaliger , M. Miles , C. M. F. Mingarelli , A. Mitridate , P. Natarajan , R. S. Nathan , C. Ng , D. J. Nice , I. C. Niţu , K. Nobleson , S. K. Ocker , K. D. Olum , S. Osłowski , A. K. Paladi , A. Parthasarathy , T. T. Pennucci , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , A. Petiteau , P. Petrov , N. S. Pol , N. K. Porayko , A. Possenti , T. Prabu , H. Quelquejay Leclere , H. A. Radovan , P. Rana , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , D. J. Reardon , A. F. Rogers , J. D. Romano , C. J. Russell , A. Samajdar , S. A. Sanidas , S. C. Sardesai , A. Schmiedekamp , C. Schmiedekamp , K. Schmitz , L. Schult , A. Sesana , G. Shaifullah , R. M. Shannon , B. J. Shapiro-Albert , X. Siemens , J. Simon , J. Singha , M. S. Siwek , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , A. Srivastava , I. H. Stairs , B. W. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring , K. Stovall , J. P. Sun , M. Surnis , S. C. Susarla , A. Susobhanan , J. K. Swiggum , K. Takahashi , P. Tarafdar , J. Taylor , S. R. Taylor , G. Theureau , E. Thrane , N. Thyagarajan , C. Tiburzi , L. Toomey , J. E. Turner , C. Unal , M. Vallisneri , E. van der Wateren , R. van Haasteren , A. Vecchio , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , J. P. W. Verbiest , S. J. Vigeland , H. M. Wahl , S. Wang , Q. Wang , C. A. Witt , J. Wang , L. Wang , K. E. Wayt , Z. Wu , O. Young , L. Zhang , S. Zhang , X. -J. Zhu , A. Zic

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) groups have recently claimed the detection of nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB), but the origin of this gravitational wave (GW) signal remains unclear. Nanohertz GWs generated by supermassive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Qing Yang , Xiao Guo , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaoyun Shao , Xi Yuan

The goal of the MeerKAT radio telescope's pulsar timing array programme (MPTA) is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. Evidence for such a signal was recently announced by the MPTA and several other pulsar…

The latest pulsar timing array data reveals evidence of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs), which have been explained by both cosmological and astrophysical sources. However, current observations lack the precision needed to differentiate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Jing Liu

In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan