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NANOGrav 11年数据集:引力波背景统计的演变

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Evolution of Gravitational Wave Background Statistics

J. S. Hazboun, J. Simon, S. R. Taylor, M. T. Lam, S. J. Vigeland, K. Islo, J. S. Key, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker, A. Brazier, P. R. Brook, S. Burke-Spolaor, S.… 展开作者

J. S. Hazboun, J. Simon, S. R. Taylor, M. T. Lam, S. J. Vigeland, K. Islo, J. S. Key, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker, A. Brazier, P. R. Brook, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, N. J. Cornish, F. Crawford, K. Crowter, H. T. Cromartie, M. DeCesar, P. B. Demorest, T. Dolch, J. A. Ellis, R. D. Ferdman, E. Ferrara, E. Fonseca, N. Garver-Daniels, P. Gentile, D. Good, A. M. Holgado, E. A. Huerta, R. Jennings, G. Jones, M. L. Jones, A. R. Kaiser, D. L. Kaplan, L. Z. Kelley, T. J. W. Lazio, L. Levin, A. N. Lommen, D. R. Lorimer, J. Luo, R. S. Lynch, D. R. Madison, M. A. McLaughlin, S. T. McWilliams, C. M. F. Mingarelli, C. Ng, D. J. Nice, T. T. Pennucci, N. S. Pol, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, X. Siemens, R. Spiewak, I. H. Stairs, D. R. Stinebring, K. Stovall, J. Swiggum, J. E. Turner, M. Vallisneri, R. van Haasteren, C. A. Witt, W. W. Zhu

摘要:

一个螺旋形的超大质量黑洞双星系综应该会产生一个随机的低频引力波背景。这种随机背景被预测为幂律,光谱指数为-2/3,它应该可以被广泛分布在天空中的精确定时的毫秒雷达网络检测到。本文报道了一个新的“时间切片”分析的11年数据发布的北美纳赫兹观测引力波(NANOGrav)使用34毫秒的射电望远镜。开发了标记潜在的“假阳性”签名的方法,包括识别责任人的技术。然后提出缓解战略。我们演示了不正确的噪声模型如何导致杂散信号,并展示了如何在30个傅立叶分量上独立建模噪声,跨越NANOGrav的频率范围,有效地诊断和吸收引力波搜索中的多余功率。这导致了我们的引力波统计的名义上的和预期的进展。此外,我们还发现PSR J1713+0747中的第一个星际介质事件污染了低光谱指数噪声的普通红噪声过程,并使用定制的噪声模型来消除这些影响。

英文摘要:

An ensemble of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries should produce a stochastic background of very low frequency gravitational waves. This stochastic background is predicted to be a power law, with a spectral index of -2/3, and it should be detectable by a network of precisely timed millisecond pulsars, widely distributed on the sky. This paper reports a new "time slicing" analysis of the 11-year data release from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) using 34 millisecond pulsars. Methods to flag potential "false positive" signatures are developed, including techniques to identify responsible pulsars. Mitigation strategies are then presented. We demonstrate how an incorrect noise model can lead to spurious signals, and show how independently modeling noise across 30 Fourier components, spanning NANOGrav's frequency range, effectively diagnoses and absorbs the excess power in gravitational-wave searches. This results in a nominal, and expected, progression of our gravitational-wave statistics. Additionally we show that the first interstellar medium event in PSR J1713+0747 pollutes the common red noise process with low-spectral index noise, and use a tailored noise model to remove these effects.

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