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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) seek to detect a nano-Hz stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) by searching for the characteristic Hellings and Downs angular pattern of timing residual correlations. So far, the evidence remains below…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Rutger van Haasteren , Bruce Allen , Joseph D. Romano

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) observations hinted towards the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nHz frequency band. Still, the nature of the SGWB signal cannot be confidently inferred from current data, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-04 Stanislav Babak , Mikel Falxa , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

Pulsar timing arrays aim to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). A background of GWs modulates pulsar arrival times and manifests as a stochastic process, common to all pulsars, with a signature spatial correlation. Here we…

Statistical anisotropy in the nanohertz-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) is expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. By developing a frequentist statistical framework that intrinsically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Nihan Pol , Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph D. Romano

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 Arrays (PTA) around the world are using the incredible consistency of millisecond pulsars to measure low frequency gravitational waves from (super)Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries. We use comprehensive MBH merger models based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Laura Blecha , Lars Hernquist , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

Pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) are in the near future expected to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by a population of inspiralling super-massive black hole binaries. In this work, we consider a background that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have entered a new era with evidence for a nanoHertz gravitational wave background (GWB). This review describes the physics of detection, detailing the noise models and cross-correlation techniques…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 C. M. F. Mingarelli , J. A. Casey-Clyde , Y. T. Chang , E. Eisenberg , F. Hutchison , N. Khusid , B. Larsen , A. Moran , F. Semenzato , L. Willson , Q. Zheng

With pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) having observed a gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies, the focus of the field is shifting towards determining and characterizing its origin. While the primary candidate is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Kyle A. Gersbach , Stephen R. Taylor , Bence Bécsy , Anna-Malin Lemke , Andrea Mitridate , Nihan Pol

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors. Each individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long path, differs in its properties but, in aggregate, can be used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-29 Gabriella Agazie , Akash Anumarlapudi , Anne M. Archibald , Zaven Arzoumanian , Paul T. Baker , Bence Bécsy , Laura Blecha , Adam Brazier , Paul R. Brook , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Maria Charisi , Shami Chatterjee , Tyler Cohen , James M. Cordes , Neil J. Cornish , Fronefield Crawford , H. Thankful Cromartie , Kathryn Crowter , Megan E. Decesar , Paul B. Demorest , Timothy Dolch , Brendan Drachler , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , William Fiore , Emmanuel Fonseca , Gabriel E. Freedman , Nate Garver-Daniels , Peter A. Gentile , Joseph Glaser , Deborah C. Good , Lydia Guertin , Kayhan Gültekin , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Ross J. Jennings , Aaron D. Johnson , Megan L. Jones , Andrew R. Kaiser , David L. Kaplan , Luke Zoltan Kelley , Matthew Kerr , Joey S. Key , Nima Laal , Michael T. Lam , William G. Lamb , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Natalia Lewandowska , Tingting Liu , Duncan R. Lorimer , Jing Luo , Ryan S. Lynch , Chung-Pei Ma , Dustin R. Madison , Alexander Mcewen , James W. Mckee , Maura A. Mclaughlin , Natasha Mcmann , Bradley W. Meyers , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Andrea Mitridate , Cherry Ng , David J. Nice , Stella Koch Ocker , Ken D. Olum , Timothy T. Pennucci , Benetge B. P. Perera , Nihan S. Pol , Henri A. Radovan , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray , Joseph D. Romano , Shashwat C. Sardesai , Ann Schmiedekamp , Carl Schmiedekamp , Kai Schmitz , Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Xavier Siemens , Joseph Simon , Magdalena S. Siwek , Ingrid H. Stairs , Daniel R. Stinebring , Kevin Stovall , Abhimanyu Susobhanan , Joseph K. Swiggum , Stephen R. Taylor , Jacob E. Turner , Caner Unal , Michele Vallisneri , Sarah J. Vigeland , Haley M. Wahl , Caitlin A. Witt , Olivia Young

The observation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is one of the goals of gravitational wave astronomy in the coming years. Massive (>10^8 solar masses) and low-redshift (< 1.5) sources are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 Alberto Sesana , Alberto Vecchio

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for nHz gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) typically model time-correlated noise by assuming a diagonal covariance in Fourier space, neglecting inter-frequency correlations introduced by the finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Marco Crisostomi , Rutger van Haasteren , Patrick M. Meyers , Michele Vallisneri

Studies have shown that the use of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is among the approaches with the highest potential to detect very low-frequency gravitational waves in the near future. Although the capture of gravitational waves (GWs) by PTAs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 MengNi Chen , Yuanhong Zhong , Yi Feng , Di Li , Jin Li

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTA) provide a powerful framework to measure low-frequency gravitational waves, but accuracy and robustness of the results are challenged by complex noise processes that must be accurately modeled. Standard PTA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Eleonora Villa , Luigi D'Amico , Aldo Barca , Fatima Modica Bittordo , Francesco Alì , Massimo Meneghetti , Luca Naso

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) have recently found strong evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) in the nanohertz frequency regime. As GWs pass, they produce deviations in measured lengths and light-travel times. PTA experiments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-05 Luke Zoltan Kelley

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

Arrays of precisely-timed millisecond pulsars are used to search for gravitational waves with periods of months to decades. Gravitational waves affect the path of radio pulses propagating from a pulsar to Earth, causing the arrival times of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Stephen R. Taylor

We assess the detectability of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background with respect to additive red and white noise in the timing of millisecond pulsars. We develop detection criteria based on the cross-correlation function summed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

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