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We consider an ensemble of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes featuring a population of relaxation times and a population of noise amplitudes that characterize the heterogeneity of the ensemble. We show that the centre-of-mass like variable…

Research on pulsar timing arrays has provided preliminary evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational background, which, either being primordial or of astrophysical origin, will interact universally with matter distributions in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-15 Manjia Liang , Peng Xu , Congfeng Qiao , Minghui Du , Qiong Deng , Bo Liang , Ziren Luo

The recently reported signal of common red noise between pulsars by several pulsar timing array collaborations has been thought as evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) due to the Helling-Downs correlation. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations gather high-precision timing measurements of pulsars with the aim of detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals. A major challenge lies in the identification and characterization of the different…

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays indicate the presence of gravitational wave signals, likely from supermassive black hole binaries. These binaries can produce two types of signals: a stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Irene Ferranti , Golam Shaifullah , Aurelien Chalumeau , Alberto Sesana

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for nHz gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) typically model time-correlated noise by assuming a diagonal covariance in Fourier space, neglecting inter-frequency correlations introduced by the finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Marco Crisostomi , Rutger van Haasteren , Patrick M. Meyers , Michele Vallisneri

The Fokker-Planck equation has been very useful for studying dynamic behavior of stochastic differential equations driven by Gaussian noises. In this paper, we derive a Fractional Fokker--Planck equation for the probability distribution of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 D. Schertzer , M. Larchev , J. Duan , V. V. Yanovsky , S. Lovejoy

Pulsar timing array collaborations have recently reported evidence for a noise process with a common spectrum among the millisecond pulsars in the arrays. The spectral properties of this common-noise process are consistent with expectations…

The modeling of intrinsic noise in pulsar timing residual data is of crucial importance for Gravitational Wave (GW) detection and pulsar timing (astro)physics in general. The noise budget in pulsars is a collection of several well studied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-04 Justin Ellis , Neil Cornish

We discuss the dynamics of a Brownian particle under the influence of a spatially periodic noise strength in one dimension using analytical theory and computer simulations. In the absence of a deterministic force, the Langevin equation can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Davide Breoni , Ralf Blossey , Hartmut Löwen

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) can be observed in the nanohertz band using a pulsar timing array (PTA). Here a computationally efficient state-space framework is developed for analysing SGWB data, in which the…

We investigate the stochastic dynamics of an active particle moving at a constant speed under the influence of a fluctuating torque. In our model the angular velocity is generated by a constant torque and random fluctuations described as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-04 Joerg Noetel , Igor M. Sokolov , Lutz Schimansky-Geier

A subdiffusion problem in which the diffusion term is related to a stable stochastic process is introduced. Linear models of these systems have been studied in a general way, but non-linear models require a more specific analysis. The model…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-05 Soveny Solís , Vicente Vergara

We consider stochastic dynamics of a particle on a plane in presence of two noises and a confining parabolic potential - an analog of the experimentally-relevant Brownian Gyrator (BG) model. In contrast to the standard BG model, we suppose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Timothée Herbeau , Leonid Pastur , Pascal Viot , Gleb Oshanin

We study statistical properties of stochastic variations in pulse arrival times, timing noise, in radio pulsars using a new analysis method applied in the time domain. The method proceeds in two steps. First, we subtract low-frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Steve Price , Bennett Link , Steve Shore , David Nice

This paper develops solutions of fractional Fokker-Planck equations describing subdiffusion of probability densities of stochastic dynamical systems driven by non-Gaussian L\'evy processes, with space-time-dependent drift, diffusion and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Erkan Nane , Yinan NI

The paper is concerned with spatial and time regularity of solutions to linear stochastic evolution equation perturbed by L\'evy white noise "obtained by subordination of a Gaussian white noise". Sufficient conditions for spatial continuity…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Zdzisław Brzeźniak , Jerzy Zabczyk

Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) observations have reported evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB). If supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are indeed the primary source of this signal, future PTA observations, such as those from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Kazuya Furusawa , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Kiyotomo Ichiki

The asymptotic behavior of a nonlinear oscillator subject to a multiplicative Ornstein-Uhlenbeck noise is investigated. When the dynamics is expressed in terms of energy-angle coordinates, it is observed that the angle is a fast variable as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-19 Kirone Mallick , Philippe Marcq

Observations have revealed that nearly all galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers. When galaxies merge, these SMBHs form SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) that emit low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). The incoherent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Sarah J. Vigeland , Kristina Islo , Stephen R. Taylor , Justin A. Ellis