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Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

Falxa, M.; Babak, S.; Baker, P. T.; Bécsy, B.; Chalumeau, A.; Chen, S.; Chen, Z.; Cornish, N. J.; Guillemot, L.; Hazboun, J. S.; Mingarelli, C. M.F.; Parthasarathy, A.; Petiteau, A.; Pol, N. S.; Sesana, A.; Spolaor, S. B.; Taylor, S. R.; Theureau, G.; Vallisneri, M.; Vigeland, S. J.; Witt, C. A.; Zhu, X.; Antoniadis, J.; Arzoumanian, Z.; Bailes, M.; Bhat, N. D.R.; Blecha, L.; Brazier, A.; Brook, P. R.; Caballero, N.; Cameron, A. D.; Casey-Clyde, J. A.; Champion, D.; Charisi, M.; Chatterjee, S.; Cognard, I.; Cordes, J. M.; Crawford, F.; Cromartie, H. T.; Crowter, K.; Dai, S.; Decesar, M. E.; Demorest, P. B.; Desvignes, G.; Dolch, T.; Drachler, B.; Feng, Y.; Ferrara, E. C.; Fiore, W.; Fonseca, E.; Garver-Daniels, N.; Glaser, J.; Goncharov, B.; Good, D. C.; Griessmeier, J.; Guo, Y. J.; Gültekin, K.; Hobbs, G.; Hu, H.; Islo, K.; Jang, J.; Jennings, R. J.; Johnson, A. D.; Jones, M. L.; Kaczmarek, J.; Kaiser, A. R.; Kaplan, D. L.; Keith, M.; Kelley, L. Z.; Kerr, M.; Key, J. S.; Laal, N.; Lam...

Authors

M. Falxa

S. Babak

P. T. Baker

B. Bécsy

A. Chalumeau

S. Chen

Z. Chen

N. J. Cornish

L. Guillemot

J. S. Hazboun

C. M.F. Mingarelli

A. Parthasarathy

A. Petiteau

N. S. Pol

A. Sesana

S. B. Spolaor

S. R. Taylor

G. Theureau

M. Vallisneri

S. J. Vigeland

C. A. Witt

X. Zhu

J. Antoniadis

Z. Arzoumanian

M. Bailes

N. D.R. Bhat

L. Blecha

A. Brazier

P. R. Brook

N. Caballero

A. D. Cameron

J. A. Casey-Clyde

D. Champion

M. Charisi

S. Chatterjee

I. Cognard

J. M. Cordes

F. Crawford

H. T. Cromartie

K. Crowter

S. Dai

M. E. Decesar

P. B. Demorest

G. Desvignes

T. Dolch

B. Drachler

Y. Feng

E. C. Ferrara

W. Fiore

E. Fonseca

N. Garver-Daniels

J. Glaser

B. Goncharov

D. C. Good

J. Griessmeier

Y. J. Guo

K. Gültekin

G. Hobbs

H. Hu

K. Islo

J. Jang

R. J. Jennings

A. D. Johnson

M. L. Jones

J. Kaczmarek

A. R. Kaiser

D. L. Kaplan

M. Keith

L. Z. Kelley

M. Kerr

J. S. Key

N. Laal

M. T. Lam

W. G. Lamb

T. J.W. Lazio

K. Liu

T. Liu

J. Luo

R. S. Lynch

D. R. Madison

R. Main

R. Manchester

A. Mcewen

J. Mckee

M. A. Mclaughlin

C. Ng

D. J. Nice

S. Ocker

K. D. Olum

S. Osłowski

T. T. Pennucci

B. B.P. Perera

D. Perrodin

N. Porayko

A. Possenti

H. Quelquejay-Leclere

S. M. Ransom

P. S. Ray

D. J. Reardon

C. J. Russell

A. Samajdar

J. Sarkissian

L. Schult

G. Shaifullah

R.M. Shannon

B.J. Shapiro-Albert

X. Siemens

J.J. Simon

M. Siwek

T.L. Smith

L. Speri

R. Spiewak

I.H. Stairs

B. Stappers

D.R. Stinebring

J.K. Swiggum

C. Tiburzi

J. Turner

A. Vecchio

J.P.W. Verbiest

H. Wahl

S.Q. Wang

J. Wang

Z. Wu

L. Zhang

S. Zhang

IPTA Collaboration



Abstract

The International Pulsar Timing Array 2nd data release is the combination of data sets from worldwide collaborations. In this study, we search for continuous waves: gravitational wave signals produced by individual supermassive black hole binaries in the local universe. We consider binaries on circular orbits and neglect the evolution of orbital frequency over the observational span. We find no evidence for such signals and set sky averaged 95 per cent upper limits on their amplitude h95. The most sensitive frequency is 10 nHz with h95 = 9.1 × 10-15. We achieved the best upper limit to date at low and high frequencies of the PTA band thanks to improved effective cadence of observations. In our analysis, we have taken into account the recently discovered common red noise process, which has an impact at low frequencies. We also find that the peculiar noise features present in some pulsars data must be taken into account to reduce the false alarm. We show that using custom noise models is essential in searching for continuous gravitational wave signals and setting the upper limit.

Citation

Falxa, M., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Chalumeau, A., Chen, S., …Collaboration, I. (2023). Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 5077-5086. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad812

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 24, 2023
Online Publication Date Mar 21, 2023
Publication Date Jun 1, 2023
Deposit Date Jul 14, 2023
Publicly Available Date Jul 14, 2023
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 521
Issue 4
Pages 5077-5086
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad812
Keywords gravitational waves, methods: data analysis, pulsars: general
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4260858

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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.




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