Search for the Gravitational-wave Background from Cosmic Strings with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Second Data Release

Abstract

We perform a direct search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic strings in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array second data release. We find no evidence for such an SGWB, and therefore place $95\%$ confidence level upper limits on the cosmic string tension, $G\mu$, as a function of the reconnection probability, $p$, which can be less than 1 in the string-theory-inspired models. The upper bound on the cosmic string tension is $G\mu \lesssim 5.1\times 10^{-10}$ for $p=1$, which is about five orders of magnitude tighter than the bound derived from the null search of individual gravitational wave burst from cosmic string cusps in the PPTA DR2.

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