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Using public pulse time-of-arrival data from five pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), we search for a stationary, isotropic, and unpolarized nHz stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). This analysis is more sensitive than previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Wang-Wei Yu , Bruce Allen

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

By regularly monitoring the most stable millisecond pulsars over many years, pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are positioned to detect and study correlations in the timing behaviour of those pulsars. Gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive…

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

Pulsars are very stable clocks in space which have many applications to problems in physics and astrophysics. Observations of double-neutron-star binary systems have given the first observational evidence for the existence of gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-22 R. N. Manchester

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…

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

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…

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

A low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) from the cosmic merger history of supermassive black holes is expected to be detected in the next few years by pulsar timing arrays. A GWB induces distinctive correlations in the pulsar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Angelo B. Mingarelli

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

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 recent announcement of evidence for a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB) in pulsar timing array (PTA) data has piqued interest across the scientific community. A combined analysis of all currently available data holds…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Serena Valtolina , Rutger van Haasteren

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

State-of-the-art searches for gravitational waves (GWs) in pulsar timing array (PTA) datasets model the signal as an isotropic, Gaussian and stationary process described by a power-law. In practice, none of these properties are expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Serena Valtolina , Golam Shaifullah , Anuradha Samajdar , Alberto Sesana

Abbreviated: We investigate the potential of detecting the gravitational wave from individual binary black hole systems using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) and calculate the accuracy for determining the GW properties. This is done in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 K. J. Lee , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , R. Smits

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal from the superposition of many inspiraling supermassive black holes with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is likely to occur within the next decade. With this detection will come the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Laura Sampson , Neil J. Cornish , Sean T. McWilliams

Pulsar timing uses the highly stable pulsar spin period to investigate many astrophysical topics. In particular, pulsar timing arrays make use of a set of extremely well-timed pulsars and their time correlations as a challenging detector of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-16 Michele Maiorano , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments such as NANOGrav and PPTA recently reported evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) background at nano-Hz frequency band. This signal can originate from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yiming Liu , Sichun Sun

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are on the verge of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs). With continued observations of a large sample of millisecond pulsars, PTAs will reach this…