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 …

Forecasting the sensitivity of Pulsar Timing Arrays to gravitational wave backgrounds

S Babak, M Falxa, G Franciolini, M Pieroni - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Pulsar timing array (PTA) observations hinted towards the existence of a stochastic
gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the nHz frequency band. Still, the nature of the …

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 …

Finite distance effects on the Hellings–Downs curve in modified gravity

G Domènech, A Tsabodimos - The European Physical Journal C, 2024 - Springer
There is growing interest in the overlap reduction function in pulsar timing array
observations as a probe of modified gravity. However, current approximations to the Hellings …

Dissecting the stochastic gravitational wave background with astrometry

M Çalışkan, Y Chen, L Dai, NA Kumar… - … of Cosmology and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Astrometry, the precise measurement of star motions, offers an alternative avenue to
investigate low-frequency gravitational waves through the spatial deflection of photons …