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most citedThe NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

1.5k citations

82 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Global Abiotic Sulfur Cycling on Earth-like Terrestrial Planets

Rafael Rianço-Silva, Javed Akhter Mondal, Matthew A. Pasek +3

Sulfur is a redox active element that may have helped mediate an electron flow that kickstarted life and which presently is an essential element for all life on Earth. Despite curr…

astro-ph.HE2025

Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems

Jackson D. Taylor, Emmanuel Fonseca, Lankeswar Dey +50

Trojan asteroids are found in the equilateral triangle Lagrange points of the Sun-Jupiter system in great number, though they also exist less prolifically in other parts of the Sol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries

Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron

Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Alan Fitzsimmons +24

Centaurs are small Solar System objects on chaotic orbits in the giant planet region, forming an evolutionary continuum with the Kuiper belt objects and Jupiter-family comets. Some…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Close-to-fission dumbbell Jupiter-Trojan (17365) Thymbraeus

B. Carry, P. Descamps, M. Ferrais +11

Every population of small bodies in the Solar system contains a sizable fraction of multiple systems. Among these, the Jupiter Trojans have the lowest number of known binary system…

gr-qc2023★ 17 cited

How to Detect an Astrophysical Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Background

Bence Bécsy, Neil J. Cornish, Patrick M. Meyers +93

Analysis of pulsar timing data have provided evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band. The most plausible source of such a background is th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 380 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

The NANOGrav 15-year data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low-frequency gr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 159 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +96

Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background has recently been reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a bac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 801 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +120

The 15-year pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-freque…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +88

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors. Each individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long path,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

Gabriella Agazie, Md Faisal Alam, Akash Anumarlapudi +97

We present observations and timing analyses of 68 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) comprising the 15-year data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NA…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.5k cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67 pulsars from the 15-year pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz O…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 2 cited

2021 occultations and transits of Linus orbiting (22) Kalliope: I. Polygonal and `cliptracing' algorithm

M. Brož, J. Ďurech, M. Ferrais +10

The satellite Linus orbiting the main-belt asteroid (22) Kalliope exhibited occultation and transit events in late 2021. A photometric campaign was organized and observations were…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 79 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: VI. Challenging the ultralight dark matter paradigm

Clemente Smarra, Boris Goncharov, Enrico Barausse +68

Pulsar Timing Array experiments probe the presence of possible scalar or pseudoscalar ultralight dark matter particles through decade-long timing of an ensemble of galactic millise…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 41 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Methods

Aaron D. Johnson, Patrick M. Meyers, Paul T. Baker +93

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use an array of millisecond pulsars to search for gravitational waves in the nanohertz regime in pulse time of arrival data. This paper presents rigorou…

gr-qc2023★ 29 cited

Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars

Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere, Pierre Auclair, Stanislav Babak +69

We search for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by a network of cosmic strings using six millisecond pulsars from Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pul…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Discovery and Timing of Millisecond Pulsars with the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift-Scan Survey

Evan F. Lewis, Timothy E. E. Olszanski, Julia S. Deneva +6

We present the discovery and timing solutions of four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in the Arecibo 327 MHz Drift-Scan Pulsar Survey. Three of these pulsars are in binary sy…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

Point Source C-Band Mueller Matrices for the Green Bank Telescope

Paul Fallon, Derck P Smits, Tapasi Ghosh +2

C-Band Mueller matrices for the Green Bank Telescope are presented here which enable on-sky Stokes parameters for point sources at the beam center to be determined. Standard calibr…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Multi-band Extension of the Wideband Timing Technique

Avinash Kumar Paladi, Churchil Dwivedi, Prerna Rana +27

The wideband timing technique enables the high-precision simultaneous estimation of pulsar Times of Arrival (ToAs) and Dispersion Measures (DMs) while effectively modeling frequenc…

gr-qc2023★ 76 cited

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

M. Falxa, S. Babak, P. T. Baker +123

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of datasets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wa…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

RAD@home citizen science discovery of an AGN spewing a large unipolar radio bubble onto its merging companion galaxy

Ananda Hota, Pratik Dabhade, Sravani Vaddi +8

AGN feedback during galaxy merger has been the most favoured model to explain black hole-galaxy co-evolution. However, how the AGN-driven jet/wind/radiation is coupled with the gas…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

Pulsar Emission Beam Geometry of Radio Broadband Arecibo Sources

Timothy Olszanski, Joanna Rankin, Arun Venkataraman +1

We present radio pulsar emission beam analyses and models with the primary intent of examining pulsar beam geometry and physics over the broadest band of radio frequencies reasonab…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy during the SKA Era: An InPTA perspective

Bhal Chandra Joshi, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Arul Pandian +34

Decades long monitoring of millisecond pulsars, which exhibit highly stable rotational periods, in pulsar timing array experiments is on the threshold of discovering nanohertz stoc…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 82 cited

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array: First data release

Pratik Tarafdar, Nobleson K., Prerna Rana +35

We present the pulse arrival times and high-precision dispersion measure estimates for 14 millisecond pulsars observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz and 1260-1460 MHz frequency…