scholarly journals ASSESSING PULSAR TIMING ARRAY SENSITIVITY TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BURSTS WITH MEMORY

2014 ◽  
Vol 788 (2) ◽  
pp. 141 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. Madison ◽  
J. M. Cordes ◽  
S. Chatterjee
2017 ◽  
Vol 96 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin R. Madison ◽  
David F. Chernoff ◽  
James M. Cordes

2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 701-712
Author(s):  
N Yonemaru ◽  
S Kuroyanagi ◽  
G Hobbs ◽  
K Takahashi ◽  
X-J Zhu ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Cosmic strings are potential gravitational-wave (GW) sources that can be probed by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). In this work we develop a detection algorithm for a GW burst from a cusp on a cosmic string, and apply it to Parkes PTA data. We find four events with a false alarm probability less than 1 per cent. However further investigation shows that all of these are likely to be spurious. As there are no convincing detections we place upper limits on the GW amplitude for different event durations. From these bounds we place limits on the cosmic string tension of Gμ ∼ 10−5, and highlight that this bound is independent from those obtained using other techniques. We discuss the physical implications of our results and the prospect of probing cosmic strings in the era of Square Kilometre Array.


2012 ◽  
Vol 425 (2) ◽  
pp. 1597-1597 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. van Haasteren ◽  
Y. Levin ◽  
G. H. Janssen ◽  
K. Lazaridis ◽  
M. Kramer ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (01) ◽  
pp. 1341008 ◽  
Author(s):  
BHAL CHANDRA JOSHI

In the last decade, the use of an ensemble of radio pulsars to constrain the characteristic strain caused by a stochastic gravitational wave background has advanced the cause of detection of very low frequency gravitational waves (GWs) significantly. This electromagnetic means of GW detection, called Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), is reviewed in this paper. The principle of operation of PTA, the current operating PTAs and their status are presented along with a discussion of the main challenges in the detection of GWs using PTA.


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