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Observing non-Gaussianity in the timing residuals of Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) has recently attracted attention as a potential discriminator between astrophysical and cosmological origins of the observed Gravitational Wave (GW) signal. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Chiara Cecchini , Jonas El Gammal , Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni

The detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) is one of the most challenging tasks for both current and next-generation detectors. Successfully distinguishing the SGWB from instrumental noise and environmental effects…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Ilaria Caporali , Angelo Ricciardone

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

The degree of Gaussianity of a field offers insights into its cosmological nature, and its statistical properties serve as indicators of its Gaussianity. In this work, we examine the signatures of Gaussianity in a gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-10 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Stephen Appleby , Kin-Wang Ng

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), which induce correlated changes in millisecond pulsars' timing residuals. PTA collaborations around the world have recently announced evidence of a nanohertz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Shashwat C. Sardesai , Joseph Simon , Sarah J. Vigeland

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The spectral content of the SGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Vuk Mandic , Eric Thrane , Stefanos Giampanis , Tania Regimbau

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Alireza Talebian

We discuss the interpretation of the detected signal by Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) observations as a gravitational wave background (GWB) of cosmological origin. We combine NANOGrav 15-years and EPTA-DR2new data sets and confront them against…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Daniel G. Figueroa , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Peera Simakachorn

Pulsar timing arrays (PTA) are a promising probe to the cosmologically novel nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) regime through the stochastic GW background. In this work, we consider subluminal GW modes as a possible source of correlations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal-length pulsar-timing campaigns in North America, Europe,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 J. Antoniadis , Z. Arzoumanian , S. Babak , M. Bailes , A. -S. Bak Nielsen , P. T. Baker , C. G. Bassa , B. Becsy , A. Berthereau , M. Bonetti , A. Brazier , P. R. Brook , M. Burgay , S. Burke-Spolaor , R. N. Caballero , J. A. Casey-Clyde , A. Chalumeau , D. J. Champion , M. Charisi , S. Chatterjee , S. Chen , I. Cognard , J. M. Cordes , N. J. Cornish , F. Crawford , H. T. Cromartie , K. Crowter , S. Dai , M. E. DeCesar , P. B. Demorest , G. Desvignes , T. Dolch , B. Drachler , M. Falxa , E. C. Ferrara , W. Fiore , E. Fonseca , J. R. Gair , N. Garver-Daniels , B. Goncharov , D. C. Good , E. Graikou , L. Guillemot , Y. J. Guo , J. S. Hazboun , G. Hobbs , H. Hu , K. Islo , G. H. Janssen , R. J. Jennings , A. D. Johnson , M. L. Jones , A. R. Kaiser , D. L. Kaplan , R. Karuppusamy , M. J. Keith , L. Z. Kelley , M. Kerr , J. S. Key , M. Kramer , M. T. Lam , W. G. Lamb , T. J. W. Lazio , K. J. Lee , L. Lentati , K. Liu , J. Luo , R. S. Lynch , A. G. Lyne , D. R. Madison , R. A. Main , R. N. Manchester , A. McEwen , J. W. McKee , M. A. McLaughlin , M. B. Mickaliger , C. M. F. Mingarelli , C. Ng , D. J. Nice , S. Os lowski , A. Parthasarathy , T. T. Pennucci , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , A. Petiteau , N. S. Pol , N. K. Porayko , A. Possenti , S. M. Ransom , P. S. Ray , D. J. Reardon , C. J. Russell , A. Samajdar , L. M. Sampson , S. Sanidas , J. M. Sarkissian , K. Schmitz , L. Schult , A. Sesana , G. Shaifullah , R. M. Shannon , B. J. Shapiro-Albert , X. Siemens , J. Simon , T. L. Smith , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , I. H. Stairs , B. W. Stappers , D. R. Stinebring , J. K. Swiggum , S. R. Taylor , G. Theureau , C. Tiburzi , M. Vallisneri , E. van der Wateren , A. Vecchio , J. P. W. Verbiest , S. J. Vigeland , H. Wahl , J. B. Wang , J. Wang , L. Wang , C. A. Witt , S. Zhang , X. J. Zhu

The recent start of the fourth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has reopened the hunt for gravitational-wave (GW) signals, with one compact-binary-coalescence (CBC) signal expected to be observed every few days.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Federico De Lillo , Jishnu Suresh

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) groups have recently claimed the detection of nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB), but the origin of this gravitational wave (GW) signal remains unclear. Nanohertz GWs generated by supermassive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Qing Yang , Xiao Guo , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaoyun Shao , Xi Yuan

The most conservative interpretation of the nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) discovered by NANOGrav and other Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) Collaborations is astrophysical, namely that it originates from supermassive black…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are being used to search for very low frequency gravitational waves. A gravitational wave signal appears in pulsar timing residuals through two components: one independent of and one dependent on the pulsar's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Matthew Pitkin

The pulsar timing array (PTA) is a powerful technique for detecting nanohertz gravitational wave backgrounds (GWBs). However, conventional PTAs lack sensitivity to parity violation in the GWB. In this work, we propose a dipole pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Baoyu Xu , Hanyu Jiang , Rong-Gen Cai , Misao Sasaki , Yun-Long Zhang

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they create in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. The mean correlation, a function of the angle between the directions to two pulsars, was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-24 Bruce Allen , Joseph D. Romano

The direct detection of gravitational waves is a major goal of current astrophysics. We provide details of a new method for detecting a stochastic background of gravitational waves using pulsar timing data. Our results show that regular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fredrick A. Jenet , George B. Hobbs , K. J. Lee , Richard N. Manchester

The direct detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is very likely within the next decade. While the stochastic GW background is a promising candidate for detection it is also possible that single resolvable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin Ellis

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have the potential to unveil continuous gravitational wave (CGW) signals from individual massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). Detecting them in both gravitational waves (GW) and the electromagnetic (EM)…

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are searching for nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) through cross-correlation of pulse arrival times from a set of radio pulsars. PTAs have relied upon a frequency-shift formula of the pulse, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Ryousuke Kubo , Kakeru Yamahira , Hideki Asada