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 …

Nonperturbative dynamics of reheating after inflation: a review

MA Amin, MP Hertzberg, DI Kaiser… - International Journal of …, 2015 - World Scientific
Our understanding of the state of the universe between the end of inflation and big bang
nucleosynthesis (BBN) is incomplete. The dynamics at the end of inflation are rich and a …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

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 NANOGrav 12.5 yr data set: search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

Z Arzoumanian, PT Baker, H Blumer… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the 12.5 yr
pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for …

Gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes missing in pulsar observations

RM Shannon, V Ravi, LT Lentati, PD Lasky, G Hobbs… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Gravitational waves are expected to be radiated by supermassive black hole binaries
formed during galaxy mergers. A stochastic superposition of gravitational waves from all …

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 …

Gravitational-wave sensitivity curves

CJ Moore, RH Cole, CPL Berry - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
There are several common conventions in use by the gravitational-wave community to
describe the amplitude of sources and the sensitivity of detectors. These are frequently …

The Parkes pulsar timing array project: second data release

M Kerr, DJ Reardon, G Hobbs, RM Shannon… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We describe 14 yr of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing
project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisecond …

Timing analysis for 20 millisecond pulsars in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

DJ Reardon, G Hobbs, W Coles, Y Levin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present timing models for 20 millisecond pulsars in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. The
precision of the parameter measurements in these models has been improved over earlier …