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利用Parkes脉冲星定时阵探测随机引力波背景

On detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the Parkes pulsar timing array

D. R. B. Yardley, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten, F. A. Jenet, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. J. … 展开作者

D. R. B. Yardley, W. A. Coles, G. B. Hobbs, J. P. W. Verbiest, R. N. Manchester, W. van Straten, F. A. Jenet, M. Bailes, N. D. R. Bhat, S. Burke-Spolaor, D. J. Champion, A. W. Hotan, S. Oslowski, J. E. Reynolds, J. M. Sarkissian

摘要:

我们使用频域相关技术来寻找脉冲星定时观测中各向同性随机引力波背景的特征。这些观测,其中跨度约12年,获得了64米帕克斯射电望远镜增强公共领域的观测从阿雷西博天文台。广泛的信号处理问题,独特的脉冲星定时和以前没有在文献中进行了讨论。这些影响包括二次删除,不规则的采样,和变量的错误,加剧了固有的频谱泄漏估计陡峭的红色频谱的引力波背景。这些观测结果与零假设一致,即没有引力波背景存在,置信度为76%。我们发现,检测统计是占主导地位的贡献,只有少数几个卫星,因为这个数据集的不均匀性。讨论了利用未来观测数据探测引力波背景特征的问题。

英文摘要:

We search for the signature of an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing observations using a frequency-domain correlation technique. These observations, which span roughly 12 yr, were obtained with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope augmented by public domain observations from the Arecibo Observatory. A wide range of signal processing issues unique to pulsar timing and not previously presented in the literature are discussed. These include the effects of quadratic removal, irregular sampling, and variable errors which exacerbate the spectral leakage inherent in estimating the steep red spectrum of the gravitational-wave background. These observations are found to be consistent with the null hypothesis, that no gravitational-wave background is present, with 76 percent confidence. We show that the detection statistic is dominated by the contributions of only a few pulsars because of the inhomogeneity of this data set. The issues of detecting the signature of a gravitational-wave background with future observations are discussed.

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