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most citedPredictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

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astro-ph.CO2025

Stochastic gravitational-wave background search using data from five pulsar timing arrays

Wang-Wei Yu, Bruce Allen

Using public pulse time-of-arrival data from five pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), we search for a stationary, isotropic, and unpolarized nHz stochastic gravitational-wave background (…

gr-qc2025

Pulsar timing array analysis in a Legendre polynomial basis

Bruce Allen, Arian L. von Blanckenburg, Ken D. Olum

We use Legendre polynomials, previously employed in this context by Lee et al., van Haasteren and Levin, and Pitrou and Cusin, to model signals in pulsar timing arrays. These repla…

astro-ph.IM2025

Optimal robust detection statistics for pulsar timing arrays

Rutger van Haasteren, Bruce Allen, Joseph D. Romano

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) seek to detect a nano-Hz stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) by searching for the characteristic Hellings and Downs angular pattern of timing…

gr-qc2024

Harmonic spectrum of pulsar timing array angular correlations

Bruce Allen, Joseph D. Romano

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they create in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. The mean correlation, a functio…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Optimal reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs correlation

Bruce Allen, Joseph D. Romano

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they create in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. The mean correlation, a functio…

gr-qc2023★ 33 cited

Answers to frequently asked questions about the pulsar timing array Hellings and Downs curve

Joseph D. Romano, Bruce Allen

We answer frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the Hellings and Downs correlation curve -- the "smoking-gun" signature that pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have detected gravitation…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 1.1k cited

Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Abadie +709

We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the Initial and Advanced versions of the ground-based…