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The relationship between pulsar-like compact stars and gravitational waves is briefly reviewed. Due to regular spins, pulsars could be useful tools for us to detect ~nano-Hz low-frequency gravitational waves by pulsar-timing array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-14 K. J. Lee , R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

We present a new method which accounts for changes in the properties of gravitational-wave detector noise over time in the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. We use information from LIGO data quality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Derek Davis , Max Trevor , Simone Mozzon , Laura K. Nuttall

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars are added to the arrays, this stage of PTA analysis will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Lorenzo Speri , Nataliya K. Porayko , Mikel Falxa , Siyuan Chen , Jonathan R. Gair , Alberto Sesana , Stephen R. Taylor

We search for the signature of an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing observations using a frequency-domain correlation technique. These observations, which span roughly 12 yr, were obtained with the 64-m…

Transient gravitational waves (aka gravitational wave bursts) within the nanohertz frequency band could be generated by a variety of astrophysical phenomena such as the encounter of supermassive black holes, the kinks or cusps in cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-13 Heling Deng , Bence Bécsy , Xavier Siemens , Neil J. Cornish , Dustin R. Madison

The possibility of using squeezed states and balanced homodyne detection of gravitational waves is discussed. It is shown that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-06 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use sets of extremely well-timed pulsars as a Galaxy-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. P. W. Verbiest , S. Oslowski , S. Burke-Spolaor

Most gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star coalescences are too weak to be individually resolved with current detectors. We demonstrate how to extract a population of sub-threshold binary neutron star signals using Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

We introduce $\texttt{GWFAST}$, a Fisher information matrix $\texttt{Python}$ code that allows easy and efficient estimation of signal-to-noise ratios and parameter measurement errors for large catalogs of resolved sources observed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-25 Francesco Iacovelli , Michele Mancarella , Stefano Foffa , Michele Maggiore

The gravitational waves emitted by binary neutron star inspirals contain information on nuclear matter above saturation density. However, extracting this information and conducting parameter estimation remains a computationally challenging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Thibeau Wouters , Peter T. H. Pang , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

Quantum computational devices, currently under development, have the potential to accelerate data analysis techniques beyond the ability of any classical algorithm. We propose the application of a quantum algorithm for the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Sijia Gao , Fergus Hayes , Sarah Croke , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

The concept of augmented reality (AR) assistants has captured the human imagination for decades, becoming a staple of modern science fiction. To pursue this goal, it is necessary to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods that…

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

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) provide a way to detect gravitational waves at nanohertz frequencies. In this band, the most likely signals are stochastic, with a power spectrum that rises steeply at lower frequencies. Indeed, the observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Bruce Allen , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Yashwant Gupta , Maura McLaughlin , Priyamvada Natarajan , Ryan M. Shannon , Eric Thrane , Alberto Vecchio

Efforts to detect gravitational waves by timing an array of pulsars have focused traditionally on stationary gravitational waves: e.g., stochastic or periodic signals. Gravitational wave bursts --- signals whose duration is much shorter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Lee Samuel Finn , Andrea N. Lommen

Pulsar Timing Arrays search for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves by regularly observing ensembles of millisecond pulsars over many years to look for correlated timing residuals. Recently the first evidence for a stochastic…

Analysis of high-precision timing observations of an array of approx. 20 millisecond pulsars (a so-called "timing array") may ultimately result in the detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave background. The feasibility of such a…

We present a practical implementation of a phase-coherent mapping technique for pulsar timing arrays that resolves the full complex polarisation state of the gravitational-wave sky as a function of direction and frequency. Unlike standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 Małgorzata Curyło , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Dawson S. Gaynor

Pulsar search with time-domain observation is very computationally expensive and data volume will be enormous with the next generation telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. We apply artificial neural networks (ANNs), a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Naoyuki Yonemaru , Keitaro Takahashi , Hiroki Kumamoto , Shi Dai , Shintaro Yoshiura , Shinsuke Ideguchi

Searching for gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data is computationally intensive. The data is unevenly sampled, and the noise is heteroscedastic, necessitating the use of a time-domain likelihood function with attendant expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Bence Bécsy , Neil J. Cornish , Matthew C. Digman
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