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most citedThe second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals

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astro-ph.IM2026

Approximating the statistics of a gravitational wave background

Mikel Falxa

The astrophysical origin of the gravitational wave background (GWB) reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations has yet to be confirmed. A GWB signal made of the sum of in…

astro-ph.HE2025

Data span and frequency coverage requirements for robust detection and inference in PTAs: A case study with EPTA DR2

Irene Ferranti, Mikel Falxa, Federico Fantoccoli +2

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required for a detection of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB). This makes it crucial to…

astro-ph.IM2025

Modeling Non-Gaussianities in Pulsar Timing Array data analysis using Gaussian Mixture Models

Mikel Falxa, Alberto Sesana

In Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) data analysis, noise is typically assumed to be Gaussian, and the marginalized likelihood has a well-established analytical form derived within the fra…

gr-qc2025

Searching for Gravitational Waves with Gaia and its Cross-Correlation with PTA: Absolute vs Relative Astrometry

Massimo Vaglio, Mikel Falxa, Giorgio Mentasti +5

Astrometric missions like Gaia provide exceptionally precise measurements of stellar positions and proper motions. Gravitational waves traveling between the observer and distant st…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Dissecting the nanohertz gravitational wave sky: Frequency-correlated anisotropy induced by eccentric supermassive black hole binaries

Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi, Serena Valtolina, Alberto Sesana +5

Revealing the nature of the nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) signal recently reported by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations around the world is the next goal of low-frequenc…

astro-ph.CO2024

Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the European Pulsar Timing Array

N. K. Porayko, P. Usynina, J. Terol-Calvo +74

Ultra-light axion-like particles (ALPs) can be a viable solution to the dark matter problem. The scalar field associated with ALPs, coupled to the electromagnetic field, acts as an…

gr-qc2024

From eccentric binaries to nonstationary gravitational wave backgrounds

Mikel Falxa, Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere, Alberto Sesana

A large population of binary systems in the Universe emitting gravitational waves (GW) would produce a stochastic noise, known as the gravitational wave background (GWB). The prope…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Impact of the observation frequency coverage on the significance of a gravitational wave background detection in PTA data

Irene Ferranti, Mikel Falxa, Alberto Sesana +8

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations gather high-precision timing measurements of pulsars with the aim of detecting gravitational wave (GW) signals. A major challenge lies in t…

astro-ph.HE2024

Modeling non stationary noise in pulsar timing array data analysis

Mikel Falxa, J. Antoniadis, D. J. Champion +16

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations recently reported evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) in their datasets. The main candidate that is expected…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Forecasting the sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational wave backgrounds

Stanislav Babak, Mikel Falxa, Gabriele Franciolini +1

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) observations hinted towards the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nHz frequency band. Still, the nature of the SGWB si…

astro-ph.HE2023

Comparing recent PTA results on the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background

The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration, G. Agazie, J. Antoniadis +242

The Australian, Chinese, European, Indian, and North American pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations recently reported, at varying levels, evidence for the presence of a nanohert…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 320 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array I. The dataset and timing analysis

J. Antoniadis, S. Babak, A. -S. Bak Nielsen +66

Pulsar timing arrays offer a probe of the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum (1 - 100 nanohertz), which is intimately connected to a number of markers that can uniquely trac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1k cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +95

We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European Pulsar T…

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.CO2023★ 111 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: IV. Implications for massive black holes, dark matter and the early Universe

J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +111

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and fir…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 76 cited

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array V. Search for continuous gravitational wave signals

J. Antoniadis, P. Arumugam, S. Arumugam +97

We present the results of a search for continuous gravitational wave signals (CGWs) in the second data release (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration. The m…

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…

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.HE2022★ 29 cited

Quality over Quantity: Optimizing pulsar timing array analysis for stochastic and continuous gravitational wave signals

Lorenzo Speri, Nataliya K. Porayko, Mikel Falxa +4

The search for gravitational waves using Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is a computationally expensive complex analysis that involves source-specific noise studies. As more pulsars ar…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation proposal in gravitational wave data analysis

Mikel Falxa, Stanislav Babak, Maude Le Jeune

Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach is frequently used within Bayesian framework to sample the target posterior distribution. Its efficiency strongly depends on the proposal used to…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 344 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic Gravitational Wave Background

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak +123

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decad…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 53 cited

Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search

A. Chalumeau, S. Babak, A. Petiteau +49

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration has recently released an extended data set for six pulsars (DR2) and reported evidence for a common red noise signal. Here we…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 282 cited

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, R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo +49

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 th…