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Pulsar-timing collaborations have recently reported evidence for the detection of an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background consistent with one sourced by a population of inspiralling supermassive black hole binaries. However, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Neha Anil Kumar , Mesut Çalışkan , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski , Lingyuan Ji

The recent observation of a common red-noise process in pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) suggests that the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves might be around the corner. However, in order to confidently attribute this red process to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Valentina Di Marco , Andrew Zic , Matthew T. Miles , Daniel J. Reardon , Eric Thrane , Ryan M. Shannon

We study the observation of polarized stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) in pulsar-timing-array experiments. The time residual for an observed pulsar is formulated as a line-of-sight integral that incorporates the effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Yu-Kuang Chu , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

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

Pulsar timing array experiments have recently found evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, which induces correlations among pulsar timing residuals described by the Hellings and Downs (HD) curve. Standard calculations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-23 Nastassia Grimm , Martin Pijnenburg , Giulia Cusin , Camille Bonvin

The effects of anisotropic transverse collective flow on the HBT correlation function is studied. There exist three different physics contributions related to flow which affect the correlation function: anisotropic source shape, anisotropic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Voloshin , W. E. Cleland

One of the most exciting targets of current and future gravitational-wave observations is the angular power spectrum of the astrophysical GW background. This cumulative signal encodes information about the large-scale structure of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Nikolaos Kouvatsos , Alexander C. Jenkins , Arianna I. Renzini , Joseph D. Romano , Mairi Sakellariadou

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

The recent astronomical milestone by the pulsar timing arrays (PTA) has revealed galactic-size gravitational waves (GW) in the form of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), correlating the radio pulses emitted by millisecond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

The peculiar motion of an observer relative to an ideal reference frame at rest with respect to the cosmic background produces boosting effects which modify and transfer at higher multipoles the frequency spectrum of the isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 Tiziana Trombetti

Most existing cosmological entanglement studies are focused on the isotropic Robertson-Walker (RW) spacetime. Here we go beyond this limitation and study the influence of anisotropy on entanglement generated by dynamical spacetime. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-16 Roberto Pierini , Shahpoor Moradi , Stefano Mancini

The presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) can be established not only via exquisitely precise pulsar timing array (PTA) measurements, but also via astrometric observations. Indeed, the very same background responsible for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Gabriele Perna , Nicola Bellomo , Vincenzo Roatti , Daniele Bertacca

The motion of an observer in the rest frame of the cosmic 21-cm background induces an anisotropy in the observed background, even when the background is isotropic. The induced anisotropy includes a dipole and a quadrupole, in the order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Selim C. Hotinli , Kyungjin Ahn

We study the sensitivity of a pair of Einstein Telescopes (ET) (hypothetically located at the two sites currently under consideration for ET) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We focus on the $\ell…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Giorgio Mentasti , Marco Peloso

Evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) signal has emerged in pulsar timing array (PTA) data, opening a new window into the nanoHz GW Universe. We explore the physics of GW signals potentially explaining the data, with a primary focus on GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Alberto Sesana , Daniel G. Figueroa

A new model independent method is presented for the analysis of pulsar timing data and the estimation of the spectral properties of an isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB). We show that by rephrasing the likelihood we are able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson , Stephen Taylor , Jonathon Gair , Sreekumar T. Balan , Rutger van Haasteren

We extend our previous work on applying CMB techniques to the mapping of gravitational-wave backgrounds to backgrounds which have non-GR polarisations. Our analysis and results are presented in the context of pulsar-timing array…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Jonathan R. Gair , Joseph D. Romano , Stephen R. Taylor

The nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB) is expected to be an aggregate signal of an ensemble of gravitational waves emitted predominantly by a large population of coalescing supermassive black hole binaries in the centres of…

Textures in images can often be well modeled using self-similar processes while they may at the same time display anisotropy. The present contribution thus aims at studying jointly selfsimilarity and anisotropy by focusing on a specific…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-16 S. G. Roux , M. Clausel , B. Vedel , S. Jaffard , P. Abry

Within the next several years, pulsar-timing array programs will likely usher in the next era of gravitational-wave astronomy through the detection of a stochastic background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, originating from a…

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