Replacing standard power-law red-noise priors with persistent-motion-derived priors in pulsar-timing gravitational-wave background searches will shift the inferred common-process amplitude by more than the current 1-sigma uncertainty in pulsars with strong spin noise, revealing that part of the claimed common red signal is absorbed intrinsic noise.
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Supporting Research Papers
- Realization Variance of Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropies from Shot Noise for Pulsar Timing Arrays
Shot-noise anisotropies in the nHz gravitational wave background (GWB) are a promising target for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). If the nHz GWB is sourced by merging supermassive black hole binaries (SM...
- Intrinsic versus observation induced spin nonstationarity in pulsar timing
Whether spin noise of a neutron star is stationary is, in two-component models, a question of whether stellar angular momentum is conserved internally or exchanged externally through independent stoch...
- Are PTA measurements sensitive to gravitational wave non-Gaussianities?
Observing non-Gaussianity in the timing residuals of Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) has recently attracted attention as a potential discriminator between astrophysical and cosmological origins of the obs...
- QuickGWecc: Fast Bayesian pipeline for searching eccentric binaries in pulsar timing array data
Recent pulsar timing array (PTA) results have provided evidence for the presence of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background, most likely originating from a population of supermassive black hole...
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