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 …

Variance of the Hellings-Downs correlation

B Allen - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Gravitational waves (GWs) create correlations in the arrival times of pulses from different
pulsars. The expected correlation μ (γ) as a function of the angle γ between the directions to …

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 …

Constraining gravitational wave propagation using pulsar timing array correlations

RC Bernardo, KW Ng - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTA) are a promising probe to the cosmologically novel nanohertz
gravitational wave (GW) regime through the stochastic GW background. In this work, we …

Hellings and Downs correlation of an arbitrary set of pulsars

B Allen, JD Romano - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) detect gravitational waves (GWs) via the correlations they
induce in the arrival times of pulses from different pulsars. We assume that the GWs are …

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 …