The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves

S Burke-Spolaor, SR Taylor, M Charisi, T Dolch… - The Astronomy and …, 2019 - Springer
Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in North America, Australia, and Europe, have been
exploiting the exquisite timing precision of millisecond pulsars over decades of observations …

Testing general relativity with present and future astrophysical observations

E Berti, E Barausse, V Cardoso… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
One century after its formulation, Einstein's general relativity (GR) has made remarkable
predictions and turned out to be compatible with all experimental tests. Most of these tests …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Evidence for a gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67
pulsars from the 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz …

Searching for the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I

H Xu, S Chen, Y Guo, J Jiang, B Wang… - … in Astronomy and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Observing and timing a group of millisecond pulsars with high rotational stability enables the
direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW signals can be identified from the …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Detector characterization and noise budget

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Each
individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long …

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 …

The parkes pulsar timing array third data release

A Zic, DJ Reardon, A Kapur, G Hobbs… - Publications of the …, 2023 - cambridge.org
We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The
release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes …

The international pulsar timing array: second data release

BBP Perera, ME DeCesar, PB Demorest… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which
includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pulsar …

The international pulsar timing array: first data release

JPW Verbiest, L Lentati, G Hobbs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro) physical
investigations. In particular, arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of …

European pulsar timing array limits on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

L Lentati, SR Taylor, CMF Mingarelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present new limits on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB)
using a six pulsar data set spanning 18 yr of observations from the 2015 European Pulsar …