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Controlling Outlier Contamination In Multimessenger Time-domain Searches For Supermasssive Binary Black Holes
Qiaohong Wang, Stephen R. Taylor
Time-domain datasets of many varieties can be prone to statistical outliers that result from instrumental or astrophysical anomalies. These can impair searches for signals within t…
Mapping the Gravitational-wave Sky with LISA: A Bayesian Spherical Harmonic Approach
Sharan Banagiri, Alexander Criswell, Tommy Kuan +3
The millihertz gravitational-wave frequency band is expected to contain a rich symphony of signals with sources ranging from galactic white dwarf binaries to extreme mass ratio ins…
Inferring the properties of a population of compact binaries in presence of selection effects
Salvatore Vitale, Davide Gerosa, Will M. Farr +1
Shortly after a new class of objects is discovered, the attention shifts from the properties of the individual sources to the question of their origin: do all sources come from the…
From Bright Binaries To Bumpy Backgrounds: Mapping Realistic Gravitational Wave Skies With Pulsar-Timing Arrays
Stephen R. Taylor, Rutger van Haasteren, Alberto Sesana
Within the next several years, pulsar-timing array programs will likely usher in the next era of gravitational-wave astronomy through the detection of a stochastic background of na…
NANOGrav Education and Outreach: Growing a Diverse and Inclusive Collaboration for Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Astronomy
The NANOGrav Collaboration, P. T. Baker, H. Blumer +25
The new field of gravitational wave astrophysics requires a growing pool of students and researchers with unique, interdisciplinary skill sets. It also offers an opportunity to bui…
Bayesian cross validation for gravitational-wave searches in pulsar-timing array data
Haochen Wang, Stephen R. Taylor, Michele Vallisneri
Gravitational-wave data analysis demands sophisticated statistical noise models in a bid to extract highly obscured signals from data. In Bayesian model comparison, we choose among…
Noise-marginalized optimal statistic: A robust hybrid frequentist-Bayesian statistic for the stochastic gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing arrays
Sarah J. Vigeland, Kristina Islo, Stephen R. Taylor +1
Observations have revealed that nearly all galaxies contain supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at their centers. When galaxies merge, these SMBHs form SMBH binaries (SMBHBs) that emi…
Solar System Ephemerides, Pulsar Timing, Gravitational Waves, and Navigation
T. Joseph W. Lazio, S. Bhaskaran, C. Cutler +6
In-spiraling supermassive black holes should emit gravitational waves, which would produce characteristic distortions in the time of arrival residuals from millisecond pulsars. Mul…
All correlations must die: Assessing the significance of a stochastic gravitational-wave background in pulsar-timing arrays
S. R. Taylor, L. Lentati, S. Babak +4
We present two methods for determining the significance of a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background affecting a pulsar-timing array, where detection is based on evidence for…
The International Pulsar Timing Array: First Data Release
J. P. W. Verbiest, L. Lentati, G. Hobbs +89
The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro-)physical investigations. In particular arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of m…
Are we there yet? Time to detection of nanohertz gravitational waves based on pulsar-timing array limits
S. R. Taylor, M. Vallisneri, J. A. Ellis +3
Decade-long timing observations of arrays of millisecond pulsars have placed highly constraining upper limits on the amplitude of the nanohertz gravitational-wave stochastic signal…
The noise properties of 42 millisecond pulsars from the European Pulsar Timing Array and their impact on gravitational wave searches
R. N. Caballero, K. J. Lee, L. Lentati +36
The sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational waves depends on the noise present in the individual pulsar timing data. Noise may be either intrinsic or extrinsic to the…
Estimating the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays
Christopher J. Moore, Stephen R. Taylor, Jonathan R. Gair
The sensitivity curve of a canonical pulsar timing array is calculated for two types of source: a monochromatic wave and a stochastic background. These calculations are performed i…
Using Swarm Intelligence To Accelerate Pulsar Timing Analysis
Stephen R. Taylor, Jonathan R. Gair, L. Lentati
We provide brief notes on a particle swarm-optimisation approach to constraining the properties of a stochastic gravitational-wave background in the first International Pulsar Timi…
Weighing The Evidence For A Gravitational-Wave Background In The First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Challenge
Stephen R. Taylor, Jonathan R. Gair, L. Lentati
We describe an analysis of the First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Challenge. We employ a robust, unbiased Bayesian framework developed by van Haasteren to study the three…
Hyper-efficient model-independent Bayesian method for the analysis of pulsar timing data
Lindley Lentati, Paul Alexander, Michael P. Hobson +4
A new model independent method is presented for the analysis of pulsar timing data and the estimation of the spectral properties of an isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB)…