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The observations from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), led by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), have provided opportunities to constrain primordial gravitational waves at low frequencies. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-07 Lu Yin

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) as gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. To date, that interest has focused mainly on three particularly promising source types: supermassive--black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Curt Cutler , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Michele Vallisneri , Joseph Lazio , Walid Majid

The pulsar timing array systems have reported a detection of a nanohertz-band stochastic gravitational wave background in our galaxy. It is of interest to use this observation to probe modified gravity and to forecast the sensitivity with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Jonathan Grée , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

Globally, Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have revealed evidence supporting an existing gravitational wave background (GWB) signal in the PTA data set. Apart from acquiring more observations, the sensitivity of PTA experiments can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 El Mehdi Zahraoui , Patricio Maturana-Russel , Willem van Straten , Renate Meyer , Sergei Gulyaev

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

Observing and timing a group of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with high rotational stability enables the direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW signals can be identified from the spatial correlations encoded in the…

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 Arrays are playing a crucial role in the ongoing gravitational wave astronomy revolution. The current evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at nHz frequencies offers an opportunity to discover…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-07 Chiara Cecchini , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) will enable the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from a population of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the next $\sim 3-7$ years. In addition, PTAs provide a rare opportunity to probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-12 Xavier Siemens , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Paul T. Baker , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Dustin Madison , Chiara Mingarelli , Joseph Simon , Tristan Smith

The detection of a stochastic signal by recent pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations, including NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA+InPTA, CPTA and MPTA, has opened a new window to explore gravitational waves (GWs) at nanohertz frequencies. Motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhi-Zhang Peng , You Wu , Lang Liu

In the summer of 2023, the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) announced a compelling evidence for the existence of a nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Despite this breakthrough, however, several critical questions remain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

The nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is an excellent early universe laboratory for testing the fundamental properties of gravity. In this letter, we elucidate on the full potential of pulsar timing array (PTA) by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

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

In this paper, we focus on testing gravity theories in the radiative regime using pulsar timing array observations. After reviewing current techniques to measure the dispersion and alternative polarization of gravitational waves, we extend…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-09 K. J. Lee

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

Multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. The signal is expected to be primarily sourced by inspiralling supermassive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Matias Zaldarriaga , Eliot Quataert

Highly energetic astrophysical phenomena like supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) mergers are predicted to emit prodigious amounts of gravitational waves (GWs). An anticipated component of the gravitational waveform known as "memory" is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 D. R. Madison , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect gravitational waves (GWs) at nHz frequencies. The expected dominant signal is given by the superposition of all waves emitted by the cosmological population of supermassive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alberto Sesana

One of the imminent science goals of pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is the detection of a continuous gravitational wave (CGW) emitted by an individual supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). SMBHBs that cause CGWs with GW frequencies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 Kathrin Grunthal , Nataliya Porayko , David J. Champion , Michael Kramer

Precision pulsar timing at the level of tens to hundreds of nanoseconds allows detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) at the cores of merging galaxies and, potentially, from exotic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-25 J. M. Cordes , M. A. McLaughlin