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20062026
most citedSearch for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

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208 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Not just a phase: detecting nanohertz gravitational waves from phase alone

Kathrin Grunthal, Eric Thrane, Rutger van Haasteren +2

Unambiguously detecting a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in pulsar-timing data requires a robust detection statistic. The pulsar timing community currently relies heavily on t…

astro-ph.IM2026

: user-friendly neural posterior estimation for gravitational-wave astronomy

Liam Pinchbeck, Eric Thrane, Csaba Balazs +1

Bayesian inference plays a central role in the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy. However, traditional Bayesian inference with stochastic samplers is computationally expens…

astro-ph.HE2026

The properties of the first continuous gravitational waves: Optimizing pulsar timing observations for supermassive black hole binary detection

Blaze Houlden, Eric Thrane, Katie Auchettl

Several pulsar timing arrays have reported evidence for a nanohertz gravitational-wave background. This background is thought to arise from the superposition of signals from a popu…

astro-ph.HE2026

Revealing Four Subpopulations of Binary Black-Hole Mergers with the Fifth Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Nir Guttman, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane

Gravitational-wave data are beginning to reveal a structured landscape of black-hole masses and spins, suggesting multiple formation processes are now being resolved observationall…

astro-ph.HE2026

Fortifying gravitational-wave population inference with normalizing flows

Christian Adamcewicz, Hugh McDougall, Paul D. Lasky +1

As the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration's (LVK's) gravitational-wave transient catalog grows, we are learning a wealth of information from the population properties of binary black h…

gr-qc2026

Joint inference for gravitational-wave signal and noise glitch: Method and application

Shun Yin Cheung, Rhiannon Udall, Derek Davis +2

Non-Gaussian noise transients ("glitches") in gravitational-wave observatories degrade our ability to accurately perform astrophysical inference. We present the analysis pipeline b…