The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves

S Burke-Spolaor, SR Taylor, M Charisi, T Dolch… - The Astronomy and …, 2019 - Springer
Pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations in North America, Australia, and Europe, have been
exploiting the exquisite timing precision of millisecond pulsars over decades of observations …

Dark energy in light of multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy

JM Ezquiaga, M Zumalacárregui - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new tool to probe the nature of dark energy (DE) and
the fundamental properties of gravity. We review the different ways in which GWs can be …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Bayesian limits on gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational-wave background has recently been
reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a …

The NANOGrav 11-year data set: high-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars

Z Arzoumanian, A Brazier… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present high-precision timing data over time spans of up to 11 years for 45 millisecond
pulsars observed as part of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational …

Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

M Falxa, S Babak, PT Baker, B Bécsy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of
data sets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves …

The international pulsar timing array: second data release

BBP Perera, ME DeCesar, PB Demorest… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which
includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pulsar …

The international pulsar timing array: first data release

JPW Verbiest, L Lentati, G Hobbs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Pulsar timing residual induced by ultralight tensor dark matter

YM Wu, ZC Chen, QG Huang - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultralight boson fields, with a mass around 10-23 eV, are promising candidates for the
elusive cosmological dark matter. These fields induce a periodic oscillation of the spacetime …

The Parkes pulsar timing array project: second data release

M Kerr, DJ Reardon, G Hobbs, RM Shannon… - Publications of the …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We describe 14 yr of public data from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA), an ongoing
project that is producing precise measurements of pulse times of arrival from 26 millisecond …

A systematic search for close supermassive black hole binaries in the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

MJ Graham, SG Djorgovski, D Stern… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Hierarchical assembly models predict a population of supermassive black hole (SMBH)
binaries. These are not resolvable by direct imaging but may be detectable via periodic …