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为低频引力波源的探测和表征优化脉冲星定时阵列观测

Optimizing Pulsar Timing Arrays Observations for Detection and Characterization of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Sources

M. T. Lam

摘要:

低频引力波的观测将需要最高的时间精度,从一个阵列的最自旋稳定的引力波。我们可以通过观测几年到几十年的低定时噪声的脉冲星来提高脉冲星定时阵列(PTA)对不同引力波源的灵敏度。我们讨论了观测策略的PTA集中在一个随机的引力波背景,如从未解决的超大质量黑洞的二进制文件,以及专注于单一的连续波源。首先,我们描述的方法来计算PTA的灵敏度不同的引力波源类。然后,我们将我们的方法应用于北美纳赫兹观测站的引力波(NANOGrav)11年数据集的45个天体。对于预期的随机背景振幅,我们发现,所有的historars的贡献显着超过几十年的时间尺度,例外的是非常悲观的随机背景振幅值。对于单个源,我们发现,许多的卫星有助于一个给定的源的灵敏度,但哪些卫星的贡献是不同的,这取决于源,或与全天空度量。我们的结果似乎强大的脉冲星到达时间的时间相关的红噪声的存在。这是至关重要的,以获得更强大的脉冲噪声参数,因为它们严重影响我们的结果。我们的研究结果表明,必须尽快定位和定时尽可能多的高精度探测器,以最大限度地提高下一代PTA探测器的灵敏度。

英文摘要:

Observations of low-frequency gravitational waves will require the highest possible timing precision from an array of the most spin-stable pulsars. We can improve the sensitivity of a pulsar timing array (PTA) to different gravitational-wave sources by observing pulsars with low timing noise over years to decades and distributed across the sky. We discuss observing strategies for a PTA focused on a stochastic gravitational-wave background such as from unresolved supermassive black hole binaries as well as focused on single continuous-wave sources. First we describe the method to calculate a PTA's sensitivity to different gravitational-wave-source classes. We then apply our method to the 45 pulsars presented in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) 11-year data set. For expected amplitudes of the stochastic background, we find that all pulsars contribute significantly over the timescale of decades; the exception is for very pessimistic values of the stochastic background amplitude. For individual single sources, we find that a number of pulsars contribute to the sensitivity of a given source but that which pulsars contribute are different depending on the source, or versus an all-sky metric. Our results seem robust to the presence of temporally-correlated red noise in pulsar arrival times. It is critical to obtain more robust pulsar-noise parameters as they heavily affect our results. Our results show that it is also imperative to locate and time as many high-precision pulsars as possible, as quickly as possible, to maximize the sensitivity of next-generation PTA detectors.

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