Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

M Bailes, BK Berger, PR Brady, M Branchesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The 100 years since the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity saw
significant development of the understanding of the theory, the identification of potential …

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds: Current detection efforts and future prospects

AI Renzini, B Goncharov, AC Jenkins, PM Meyers - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny
fraction of all GW signals that reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Evidence for a gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67
pulsars from the 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz …

Search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

DJ Reardon, A Zic, RM Shannon… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsar timing arrays aim to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). A
background of GWs modulates pulsar arrival times and manifests as a stochastic process …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Search for signals from new physics

A Afzal, G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for
Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low …

The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array-III. Search for gravitational wave signals

J Antoniadis, P Arumugam, S Arumugam… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We present the results of the search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave
background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies using the second data release of the European …

[HTML][HTML] The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The NANOGrav 15 yr data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency
gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low …

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background

J Antoniadis, Z Arzoumanian, S Babak… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data
release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal …

The gravitational-wave background null hypothesis: Characterizing noise in millisecond pulsar arrival times with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

DJ Reardon, A Zic, RM Shannon… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The noise in millisecond pulsar (MSP) timing data can include contributions from observing
instruments, the interstellar medium, the solar wind, solar system ephemeris errors, and the …

The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: Detector characterization and noise budget

G Agazie, A Anumarlapudi, AM Archibald… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Each
individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long …