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20242026
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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

An updated constraint for the Gravitational Wave Background from the Gamma-ray Pulsar Timing Array

Serena Valtolina, Colin J. Clark, Rutger van Haasteren +5

Fermi LAT observations of gamma-ray pulsars can be used to build a pulsar timing array (PTA) experiment to search for gravitational wave (GW) signals at nanohertz frequencies. At t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Timing Gamma-ray Pulsars using Gibbs Sampling

Colin J. Clark, Serena Valtolina, Lars Nieder +1

Timing analyses of gamma-ray pulsars in the Fermi Large Area Telescope data set can provide sensitive probes of many astrophysical processes, including timing noise in young pulsar…

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…

astro-ph.IM2025

Regularizing the Pulsar Timing Array likelihood: A path towards Fourier Space

Serena Valtolina, Rutger van Haasteren

The recent announcement of evidence for a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB) in pulsar timing array (PTA) data has piqued interest across the scientific community.…

astro-ph.GA2025

Dissecting the nanoHz gravitational wave sky: frequency-correlated anisotropy induced by eccentric supermassive black hole binaries

Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi, Serena Valtolina, Alberto Sesana +5

Revealing the nature of the nanoHz gravitational wave (GW) signal recently reported by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) collaborations around the world is the next goal of low-frequency…

gr-qc2024

Source anisotropies and pulsar timing arrays

Bruce Allen, Deepali Agarwal, Joseph D. Romano +1

Pulsar timing arrays (PTA) hunt for gravitational waves (GW) by searching for the correlations that GWs induce in the time-of-arrival residuals from different pulsars. If the GW so…