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

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astro-ph.IM2026

Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity to Anisotropy: Empirical Sensitivity Curves, Scaling Relations, and the Multi-Resolution Pixel Basis

Taha T. Moursy, Nihan S. Pol, Gabriella Agazie +115

We quantify pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity to anisotropy in the gravitational wave background using the cross-correlation based Fisher information matrix in the pixel and sp…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Chromatic Noise Characterization & Mitigation with Time-Domain Kernels

Jeffrey S. Hazboun, Joseph Simon, Jeremy Baier +64

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have recently entered the detection era, quickly moving beyond the goal of simply improving sensitivity at the lowest frequencies for the sake of observ…

astro-ph.IM2025

Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs I: Model efficacy

Levi Schult, Polina Petrov, Stephen R. Taylor +4

One of the most promising targets for Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is identifying an individual supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) out of the population of binaries theorized to…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs II: Milestones for binary characterization

Polina Petrov, Levi Schult, Stephen R. Taylor +4

Following the recent evidence for a gravitational wave (GW) background found by pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments, the next major science milestone is resolving individual supe…

astro-ph.IM2025

Mapping the Gravitational-wave Background Across the Spectrum with a Next-Generation Anisotropic Per-frequency Optimal Statistic

Kyle A. Gersbach, Stephen R. Taylor, Bence Bécsy +3

With pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) having observed a gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies, the focus of the field is shifting towards determining and characte…