A Joint Optimal Search for Gravitational Waves from Resolved and Unresolved Supermassive Binary Black Holes with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Boris Goncharov, Gabriela Sato-Polito, Xiaoming Bi +1

We introduce, from first principles, a joint model of the gravitational wave background (GWB) and brightest supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) sources that may be individually…