European Pulsar Timing Array Limits On An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Lindley Lentati; Stephen R. Taylor; Chiara M. F. Mingarelli; Alberto Sesana; Sotiris A. Sanidas; Alberto Vecchio; R. Nicolas Caballero; K. J. Lee; Rutger van Haasteren; Stanislav Babak; Cees G. Bassa; Patrick Brem; Marta Burgay; David J. Champion; Ismael Cognard; Gregory Desvignes; Jonathan R. Gair; Lucas Guillemot; Jason W. T. Hessels; Gemma H. Janssen; Ramesh Karuppusamy; Michael Kramer; Antoine Lassus; Patrick Lazarus; Kuo Liu; Stefan Osłowski; Delphine Perrodin; Antoine Petiteau; Andrea Possenti; Mark B. Purver; Pablo A. Rosado; Roy Smits; Ben Stappers; Gilles Theureau; Caterina Tiburzi; Joris P. W. Verbiest

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European Pulsar Timing Array Limits On An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Lindley Lentati, Stephen R. Taylor, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Alberto Sesana, Sotiris A. Sanidas, Alberto Vecchio, R. Nicolas Caballero, K. J. Lee, Rutger van Haasteren, Stanislav Babak, Cees G. Bassa, Patrick Brem, Marta Burgay, David J. Champion, Ismael Cognard, Gregory Desvignes, Jonathan R. Gair, Lucas Guillemot, Jason W. T. Hessels, Gemma H. JanssenRamesh Karuppusamy, Michael Kramer, Antoine Lassus, Patrick Lazarus, Kuo Liu, Stefan Osłowski, Delphine Perrodin, Antoine Petiteau, Andrea Possenti, Mark B. Purver, Pablo A. Rosado, Roy Smits, Ben Stappers, Gilles Theureau, Caterina Tiburzi, Joris P. W. Verbiest

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Abstract

We present new limits on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) using a six pulsar dataset spanning 18 yr of observations from the 2015 European Pulsar Timing Array data release. Performing a Bayesian analysis, we fit simultaneously for the intrinsic noise parameters for each pulsar, along with common correlated signals including clock, and Solar System ephemeris errors, obtaining a robust 95$\%$ upper limit on the dimensionless strain amplitude $A$ of the background of $A $G\muc^2$\Omega^\mathrm{relic}_\mathrm{gw}(f)h^2

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2576-2598
Journal	Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices
Volume	453
Issue number	3
Early online date	31 Aug 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1538
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2015

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24 pages, 5 tables, 17 figures

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Lentati, L., Taylor, S. R., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Sesana, A., Sanidas, S. A., Vecchio, A., Caballero, R. N., Lee, K. J., Haasteren, R. V., Babak, S., Bassa, C. G., Brem, P., Burgay, M., Champion, D. J., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Gair, J. R., Guillemot, L., Hessels, J. W. T., ... Verbiest, J. P. W. (2015). European Pulsar Timing Array Limits On An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices, 453(3), 2576-2598. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1538

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European Pulsar Timing Array Limits On An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

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