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astro-ph.CO2025

FrankenStat I: a New Approach to Pulsar Timing Array Data Combination

David Wright, Kalista Wayt, Jeffrey S. Hazboun +4

In 2023, after more than two decades of searching, pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations around the world announced evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background. It w…

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

Flexible Spectral Separation of Multiple Isotropic and Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds in LISA

Alexander W. Criswell, Sharan Banagiri, Jessica Lawrence +4

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe mHz gravitational waves from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. Of these, some will be characterizable as individua…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Rapid Construction of Joint Pulsar Timing Array Datasets: The Lite Method

Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Paul T. Baker +41

The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)'s second data release (IPTA DR2) combines decades of observations of 65 millisecond pulsars from 7 radio telescopes. IPTA datasets shou…