Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset

ZC Chen, YM Wu, YC Bi, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The recent detection of a stochastic signal in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset has aroused
great interest in uncovering its origin. However, the evidence for the Hellings-Downs …

Constraints on the velocity of gravitational waves from the NANOGrav 15-year data set

YC Bi, YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
General relativity predicts that gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light. Although
ground-based gravitational-wave detectors have successfully constrained the velocity of …

Charting the nanohertz gravitational wave sky with pulsar timing arrays

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07955, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the summer of 2023, the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) announced a compelling evidence
for the existence of a nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Despite …

Pulsar timing array harmonic analysis and source angular correlations

B Allen - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) influence the arrival times of radio signals coming from pulsars.
Here, we investigate the harmonic space approach to describing a pulsar's response to …

Beyond the Hellings–Downs curve: Non-Einsteinian gravitational waves in pulsar timing array correlations

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024 - aanda.org
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have revealed galaxy-size gravitational waves (GWs) in the form
of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), correlating the radio pulses emitted …

Testing gravity with cosmic variance-limited pulsar timing array correlations

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is an excellent early
universe laboratory for testing the fundamental properties of gravity. In this paper, we …

Cosmic variance of the Hellings and Downs correlation for ensembles of universes having nonzero angular power spectra

D Agarwal, JD Romano - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) induce correlated perturbations to the arrival times of pulses from
an array of galactic millisecond pulsars. The expected correlations, obtained by averaging …

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-wave Background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently we found compelling evidence for a gravitational-wave background with Hellings
and Downs (HD) correlations in our 15 yr data set. These correlations describe gravitational …

Correlations for an anisotropic polarized stochastic gravitational wave background in pulsar timing arrays

RC Bernardo, GC Liu, KW Ng - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent compelling observation of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave
background has brought to light a new galactic arena to test gravity. In this paper, we derive …

Unveiling the graviton mass bounds through the analysis of 2023 pulsar timing array data releases

S Wang, ZC Zhao - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Strong evidence for the Helling-Downs correlation curves have been reported by multiple
pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in the middle of 2023. In this work, we investigate …