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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.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.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.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…

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.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…