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While massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) merge at gravitational-wave frequencies above the pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity band, we show that they leave orphaned low-frequency contributions in the PTA pulsar term. Due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-24 Alexander W. Criswell , Stephen R. Taylor , Kris Pardo , Alberto Sesana , David Izquierdo , Silvia Bonoli , Daniele Spinoso

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

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

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves (GWs) from individual sources using high-cadence observations of PSR J1909\(-\)3744 obtained during an intensive observing campaign with the International Pulsar Timing Array second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Jing Zou , Jingbo Wang Jianping Yuan , De Zhao , Yirong Wen , Wei Li , Na Wang , Yong Xia

On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…

The stochastic gravitational-wave background is imprinted on the times of arrival of radio pulses from millisecond pulsars. Traditional pulsar timing analyses fit a timing model to each pulsar and search the residuals of the fit for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 William DeRocco , Jeff A. Dror

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) measure nHz frequency gravitational waves (GWs) generated by orbiting massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with periods between 0.1-10 yr. Previous studies on the nHz GW background assumed that the inspiral is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bence Kocsis , Alberto Sesana

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Caterina Tiburzi

Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments are expected to detect nano-Hertz gravitational waves (GWs) emitted from individual inspiralling supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs). The GW signals from a small fraction of these SMBBHs may be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Hao Ma , Youjun Lu , Zhiwei Chen , Yunfeng Chen

We calculate the properties, occurrence rates and detection prospects of individually resolvable 'single sources' in the low frequency gravitational wave (GW) spectrum. Our simulations use the population of galaxies and massive black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Laura Blecha , Lars Hernquist , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

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

Pulsar timing is a promising technique for detecting low frequency sources of gravitational waves. Historically the focus has been on the detection of diffuse stochastic backgrounds, such as those formed from the superposition of weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

We perform searches for gravitational wave memory in the data of two major Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments located in Europe and Australia. Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are the primary sources of gravitational waves in…

Burst with memory events are potential transient gravitational wave sources for the maturing pulsar timing array (PTA) efforts. We provide a computationally efficient prescription to model pulsar timing residuals induced by supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-17 Subhajit Dandapat , Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Lankeswar Dey , A. Gopakumar , Paul T. Baker , Philippe Jetzer

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) may eventually be able to detect not only the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background of SMBH binaries, but also individual, particularly massive binaries whose signals stick out above the background. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Takamitsu L. Tanaka , Zoltán Haiman

A pulsar timing array (PTA) refers to a program of regular, high-precision timing observations of a widely distributed array of millisecond pulsars. Here we review the status of the three primary PTA projects and the joint International…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 George Hobbs , Shi Dai

Measurement of the pulsar timing residuals provides a direct way to detect relic gravitational waves at the frequency $f\sim 1/{\rm yr}$. In this paper, we investigate the constraints on the inflationary parameters, the tensor-to-scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-17 Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang , Xiao-Peng You , Zong-Hong Zhu

We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) for 25 millisecond pulsars and a…

A new detection method for gravitational waves (GWs) with ultra-low frequencies ($f_{\rm GW} \lesssim 10^{-10}~{\rm Hz}$), which is much lower than the range of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), was proposed in Yonemaru et al. (2016). This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Shinnosuke Hisano , Naoyuki Yonemaru , Hiroki Kumamoto , Keitaro Takahashi

Pulsars act as accurate clocks, sensitive to gravitational redshift and acceleration induced by transiting clumps of matter. We study the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to single transiting compact objects, focusing on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Jeff A. Dror , Harikrishnan Ramani , Tanner Trickle , Kathryn M. Zurek