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国际脉冲星定时阵:银河系尺度的引力波观测

The International Pulsar Timing Array: A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory

M. A. McLaughlin

摘要:

毫秒双星惊人的旋转稳定性使它们能够被用作精确的天体时钟。一个阵列的这些天文学家可以利用搜索相关的扰动,在他们的脉冲到达时间,由于引力波。在这里,我描述了必要的观测和分析,以实现这一目标,并提出了全球脉冲星计时社区的努力的概述。由于越来越多的毫秒脉冲星的发现,改进的仪器,和不断增长的观测时间跨度,我们的脉冲星定时阵列实验的灵敏度预计将显着增加,在未来几年内,导致一个引力波检测或非常严格的限制低频引力波源人口在十年结束之前。

英文摘要:

The phenomenal rotational stability of millisecond pulsars allows them to be used as precise celestial clocks. An array of these pulsars can be exploited to search for correlated perturbations in their pulse times of arrival due to gravitational waves. Here, I describe the observations and analysis necessary to accomplish this goal and present an overview of the efforts of the worldwide pulsar timing community. Due to a growing number of millisecond pulsar discoveries, improved instrumentation, and growing timespans of observation, the sensitivity of our pulsar timing array experiments is expected to dramatically increase over the next several years, leading to either a gravitational wave detection or very stringent constraints on low-frequency gravitational wave source populations before the end of the decade.

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