The international pulsar timing array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2010-05-27 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract
The International Pulsar Timing Array project combines observations of pulsars from both Northern and Southern hemisphere observatories with the main aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~10^-9 to 10^-8 Hz) gravitational waves. Here we introduce the project, review the methods used to search for gravitational waves emitted from coalescing supermassive binary black-hole systems in the centres of merging galaxies and discuss the status of the project.
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@article{arxiv.0911.5206,
title = {The international pulsar timing array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector},
author = {G. Hobbs and A. Archibald and Z. Arzoumanian and D. Backer and M. Bailes and N. D. R. Bhat and M. Burgay and S. Burke-Spolaor and D. Champion and I. Cognard and W. Coles and J. Cordes and P. Demorest and G. Desvignes and R. D. Ferdman and L. Finn and P. Freire and M. Gonzalez and J. Hessels and A. Hotan and G. Janssen and F. Jenet and A. Jessner and C. Jordan and V. Kaspi and M. Kramer and V. Kondratiev and J. Lazio and K. Lazaridis and K. J. Lee and Y. Levin and A. Lommen and D. Lorimer and R. Lynch and A. Lyne and R. Manchester and M. McLaughlin and D. Nice and S. Oslowski and M. Pilia and A. Possenti and M. Purver and S. Ransom and J. Reynolds and S. Sanidas and J. Sarkissian and A. Sesana and R. Shannon and X. Siemens and I. Stairs and B. Stappers and D. Stinebring and G. Theureau and R. van Haasteren and W. van Straten and J. P. W. Verbiest and D. R. B. Yardley and X. P. You},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5206},
year = {2010}
}
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accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity. Review talk for the Amaldi8 conference series