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The characterization of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) with pulsar-timing arrays requires a continual expansion of datasets and monitored pulsars. Whereas detection of the stochastic GW background is predicated on measuring a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph Simon , Levi Schult , Nihan Pol , William G. Lamb

Gravitational wave (GW) backgrounds of cosmological origin are expected to be nearly isotropic, with small anisotropies resembling those of the cosmic microwave background. We analyse the case of a scalar-induced GW background and clarify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ema Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) originates from numerous faint sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) signals arising from the coalescing binary compact objects. This background is expected to be discovered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Ramit Dey , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , Suvodip Mukherjee , Niayesh Afshordi

We study the scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) from a chiral scalar-tensor theory of gravity. The parity-violating (PV) Lagrangian contains the Chern-Simons (CS) term and PV scalar-tensor terms, which are built of the quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-28 Jia-Xi Feng , Fengge Zhang , Xian Gao

With the anticipated launch of space-based gravitational wave detectors, including LISA, TaiJi, TianQin, and DECIGO, expected around 2030, the detection of gravitational waves generated by intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBBHs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

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

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), such as those produced by supermassive binary black holes at subparsec separations. The incoherent superposition of GWs emitted by a cosmological population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Shashwat C. Sardesai , Gabriel E. Freedman , Sarah J. Vigeland , Caitlin A. Witt

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

At nanohertz frequencies gravitational waves (GWs) cause variations in time-of-arrival of pulsar signals potentially measurable via precision timing observations. Here we compute very-low-frequency GW sensitivity constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Fredrick A. Jenet , J. W. Armstrong , Massimo Tinto

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently reported a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in the pulsar-timing data. We evaluate the evidence of interpreting this process as mergers of super massive black hole binaries and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Ruiyu Zhou

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

Following the recent evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background found by pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments, the next major science milestone is resolving individual supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Polina Petrov , Levi Schult , Stephen R. Taylor , Nihan Pol , Nima Laal , Maria Charisi , Chung-Pei Ma

The maximum frequency of gravitational waves (GWs) detectable with traditional pulsar timing methods is set by the Nyquist frequency ($f_{\rm{Ny}}$) of the observation. Beyond this frequency, GWs leave no temporal-correlated signals;…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-17 S. -X Yi , S. -N. Zhang

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

Direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves ($10^{-9} - 10^{-8}$ Hz) is the main goal of pulsar timing array (PTA) projects. One of the main targets for the PTAs is to measure the stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB)…

The NANOGrav collaboration has recently observed first evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in pulsar timing data. Here we explore the possibility that this GWB is due to new physics, and show that the signal can be well fit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-12 Wolfram Ratzinger , Pedro Schwaller

Recently, the pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have reported the evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nano-Hertz band. The spectrum of inflationary gravitational wave (IGW) is unknown, which might…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Jun-Qian Jiang , Yong Cai , Gen Ye , Yun-Song Piao

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

We perform the first search for an isotropic non-tensorial gravitational-wave background (GWB) allowed in general metric theories of gravity in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) 12.5-year data set.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Chen Yuan , Qing-Guo Huang