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Pulsar timing arrays seek and study gravitational waves (GWs) through the angular two-point correlation function of timing residuals they induce in pulsars. The two-point correlation function induced by the standard transverse-traceless GWs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Neha Anil Kumar , Marc Kamionkowski

The signals from international pulsar timing arrays have presented a hint of gravitational stochastic background in nHz band frequency. Further confirmation will be based on whether the signals follow the angular correlation curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Qing-Hua Zhu

Several papers have recently calculated the contribution to pulsar timing array overlap reduction functions (ORFs) induced by our peculiar velocity with respect to the rest frame of the stochastic gravitational-wave background. Here we show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Neha Anil Kumar , Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski

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

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

A new approach to the problem of gravitational waves detection based on simultaneous timing of several pulsars and subsequent expansion of the post-fit timing data into components of different spectral kind (with different spectral indices)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander E. Rodin

The reported evidence for an isotropic gravitational-wave background (GWB) from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations has motivated searches for extrinsic and intrinsic anisotropies. Kinematic anisotropies may arise as a consequence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Maximilian Blümke , Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder , Deepali Agarwal , Joseph D. Romano

Pulsar timing offers an independent avenue to test general relativity and alternative gravity theories. This requires an understanding of how metric polarizations beyond the familiar transverse tensor ones imprint as a stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-08 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

In our previous paper \cite{PTA1} we derived a generic expression for the pulse redshift the main observable for the Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiment for detection of gravitational waves for all possible polarizations induced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Adrian Boîtier , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Philippe Jetzer

It was recently shown that the time variation of the polarization of electromagnetic waves from pulsars can be used, in cross-correlation with pulsar timing, to probe the chirality of an isotropic gravitational wave background. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Keisuke Inomata , Marc Kamionkowski

We suggest a new approach to the detection of gravitational waves using observations of a group of millisecond pulsars. In contrast to the usual method, based on increasing the accuracy of the arrival times of pulses by excluding possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 Alexander E. Rodin

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

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for gravitational waves (GWs) aim to detect a characteristic correlation pattern in the timing residuals of galactic millisecond pulsars. This pattern is described by the PTA overlap reduction function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-03 Nina Cordes , Andrea Mitridate , Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder , Kim Wassner

Detection of a gravitational-wave stochastic background via ground or space-based gravitational-wave detectors requires the cross-correlation of the response of two or more independent detectors. The cross-correlation involves a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Lee Samuel Finn , Shane L. Larson , Joseph D. Romano

We present a unified spin-weighted harmonic framework that delivers analytic, diagonal expressions for the overlap (correlation) functions of three low frequency gravitational wave observables-pulsar timing redshifts, astrometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo R. Contaldi

Can we estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of a gravitational wave (GW) signal from pulsar timing array observations? The present paper addresses the inverse problem, for which we consider quadrupole moments of pulsar timings due to GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Taichi Ueyama , Hodaka Tamura , Hideki Asada

In our previous work \cite{PTA2} we calculated the overlap reduction function for the tensor polarization without employing the short wavelength approximation, this was done by obtaining a power series of nested sums which is valid for all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Adrian Boîtier , Tanguy Giroud , Shubhanshu Tiwari , Philippe Jetzer

Since it was confirmed two decades ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, it would be of theoretical interests to figure out what is the influence from cosmological constant on detection of stochastic gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Qing-Hua Zhu

We compute the angular two-point correlation functions of the gamma-ray bursts at cosmological distances. Since the gamma-ray burst emission mechanism is not yet established, we simply assume that the gamma-ray burst sources are associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Shiho Kobayashi , Shin Sasaki , Yasushi Suto

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
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