Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds: Current detection efforts and future prospects

AI Renzini, B Goncharov, AC Jenkins, PM Meyers - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny
fraction of all GW signals that reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background

J Antoniadis, Z Arzoumanian, S Babak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search

S Chen, RN Caballero, YJ Guo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as
predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from the …

On the evidence for a common-spectrum process in the search for the nanohertz gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

B Goncharov, RM Shannon, DJ Reardon… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A nanohertz-frequency stochastic gravitational-wave background can potentially be
detected through the precise timing of an array of millisecond pulsars. This background …

The discovery and scientific potential of fast radio bursts

M Bailes - Science, 2022 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-time-scale bursts of coherent radio emission that
are luminous enough to be detectable at cosmological distances. In this Review, I describe …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Search for anisotropy in the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)
has reported evidence for the presence of an isotropic nanohertz gravitational-wave …

The MeerKAT pulsar timing array: First data release

MT Miles, RM Shannon, M Bailes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present the first 2.5 yr of data from the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array (MPTA), part of
MeerTime, a MeerKAT Large Survey Project. The MPTA aims to precisely measure pulse …

Search for stochastic gravitational-wave background from massive gravity in the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset

YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Gravitational waves offer a new window to probe the nature of gravity, including answering if
the mediating particle, graviton, has a nonzero mass or not. Pulsar timing arrays measure …

A pulsar in a binary with a compact object in the mass gap between neutron stars and black holes

ED Barr, A Dutta, PCC Freire, M Cadelano, T Gautam… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Some compact objects observed in gravitational wave events have masses in the gap
between known neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs). The nature of these mass gap …