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astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Harmonic Analysis of the Pulsar Angular Correlations

Gabriella Agazie, Jeremy G. Baier, Paul T. Baker +86

Pulsar timing array observations have found evidence for an isotropic gravitational wave background with the Hellings-Downs angular correlations, expected from general relativity.…

astro-ph.IM2024

Deep Neural Emulation of the Supermassive Black-hole Binary Population

Nima Laal, Stephen R. Taylor, Luke Zoltan Kelley +13

While supermassive black-hole (SMBH)-binaries are not the only viable source for the low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) signal evidenced by the most recent pulsar ti…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 Yr Data Set: Removing Pulsars One by One from the Pulsar Timing Array

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

Evidence has emerged for a stochastic signal correlated among 67 pulsars within the 15-year pulsar-timing data set compiled by the NANOGrav collaboration. Similar signals have been…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries

Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 9 cited

Solving the PTA Data Analysis Problem with a Global Gibbs Scheme

Nima Laal, Stephen R. Taylor, Rutger van Haasteren +2

The announcement in the summer of 2023 about the discovery of evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has ignited both the PTA and the…

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…

astro-ph.HE2024

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Running of the Spectral Index

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

The NANOGrav 15-year data provides compelling evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background at nanohertz frequencies. The simplest model-independent approach to char…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Posterior predictive checks for gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +99

Pulsar-timing-array experiments have reported evidence for a stochastic background of nanohertz gravitational waves consistent with the signal expected from a population of superma…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Host Galaxy Demographics Of Individually Detectable Supermassive Black-hole Binaries with Pulsar Timing Arrays

Katharine Cella, Stephen R. Taylor, Luke Zoltan Kelley

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) produce gravitational waves (GWs) that are detectable with pulsar timing arrays. We determine the properties of the host galaxies of simulated M…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 16 cited

Spatial and Spectral Characterization of the Gravitational-wave Background with the PTA Optimal Statistic

Kyle A. Gersbach, Stephen R. Taylor, Patrick M. Meyers +1

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have made tremendous progress and are now showing strong evidence for the gravitational-wave background (GWB). Further probing the origin and characteri…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

Identifying Host Galaxies of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Found by PTAs

Polina Petrov, Stephen R. Taylor, Maria Charisi +1

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) present us with exciting opportunities for multi-messenger science. These systems are thought to form naturally in galaxy mergers and ther…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 19 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Looking for Signs of Discreteness in the Gravitational-wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97

The cosmic merger history of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) is expected to produce a low-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB). Here we investigate how signs of…