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most citedTargeted search for eccentric supermassive binary black holes in OJ 287 and nearby galaxy clusters with PPTA DR3

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astro-ph.HE2026

Finding Supermassive Black Hole Binary Mergers in Pulsar Timing Array Data

Sharon Mary Tomson, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren

Galaxy observations suggest that mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are rare events, with rates of order one per decade across the observable Universe. We present…

astro-ph.GA20261 cited

Targeted search for eccentric supermassive binary black holes in OJ 287 and nearby galaxy clusters with PPTA DR3

Shi-Yi Zhao, Xingjiang Zhu, Jacob Cardinal Tremblay +19

We perform Bayesian targeted searches for continuous gravitational waves from eccentric supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) using the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array third data rel…

gr-qc2025

Search for Gravitational Wave Memory in PPTA and EPTA Data: A Complete Signal Model

Sharon Mary Tomson, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren +21

We perform searches for gravitational wave memory in the data of two major Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments located in Europe and Australia. Supermassive black hole binaries (…

astro-ph.HE2025

Reading signatures of supermassive binary black holes in pulsar timing array observations

Boris Goncharov, Shubhit Sardana, A. Sesana +10

We find the inferred properties of the putative gravitational wave background in the second data release of the European Pulsar Timing Array to be in better agreement with theoreti…

gr-qc2024

Identifying Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole mergers using a Harmonic Decomposition of the Gravitational Waveform

Ben G. Patterson, Sharon Mary Tomson, Stephen Fairhurst

We show that the gravitational waveform emitted by a binary on an eccentric orbit can be naturally decomposed into a series of harmonics. The frequencies of these harmonics depend…