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gr-qc2026

Fast and Flow-rious: Gravitational Wave Background Bayesian Model Comparison using Normalizing Flows and Nested Sampling

David C. Wright, Aaron D. Johnson, Jeffrey S. Hazboun +1

In 2023, pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations around the world announced evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background (GWB). Beyond increasing the detection significa…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Finite Populations & Finite Time: The Non-Gaussianity of a Gravitational Wave Background

William G. Lamb, Jeremy M. Wachter, Andrea Mitridate +5

Strong evidence for an isotropic, Gaussian gravitational wave background (GWB) has been found by multiple pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). The GWB is expected to be sourced by a finite…

gr-qc2025

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +102

We present the results of a search for nonlinear gravitational wave memory in the NANOGrav 15-year data set. We find no significant evidence for memory signals in the dataset, with…

gr-qc2024★ 23 cited

Spectral Variance in a Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background From a Binary Population

William G. Lamb, Stephen R. Taylor

A population of compact object binaries emitting gravitational waves that are not individually resolvable will form a stochastic gravitational wave signal. While the expected spect…

gr-qc2023

The NANOGrav 15-year data set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +96

Recently we found compelling evidence for a gravitational wave background with Hellings and Downs (HD) correlations in our 15-year data set. These correlations describe gravitation…

gr-qc2023★ 17 cited

How to Detect an Astrophysical Nanohertz Gravitational-Wave Background

Bence Bécsy, Neil J. Cornish, Patrick M. Meyers +93

Analysis of pulsar timing data have provided evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band. The most plausible source of such a background is th…

gr-qc2023

The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory

Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +87

We present the results of a Bayesian search for gravitational wave (GW) memory in the NANOGrav 12.5-yr data set. We find no convincing evidence for any gravitational wave memory si…

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…

gr-qc2022

A Parallelized Bayesian Approach To Accelerated Gravitational-Wave Background Characterization

Stephen R. Taylor, Joseph Simon, Levi Schult +2

The characterization of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) with pulsar-timing arrays requires a continual expansion of datasets and monitored pulsars. Whereas detection…