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在国际脉冲星计时阵列第二次数据发布中搜寻各向同性随机引力波背景

Searching for Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background in the International Pulsar Timing Array Second Data Release

Zu-Cheng Chen, Yu-Mei Wu, Qing-Guo Huang

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本研究在国际脉冲星计时阵列第二次数据发布中搜寻各向同性随机引力波背景,发现强证据支持具有标量横相关性的公共谱过程,并给出其振幅与能量密度参数,同时未发现张量横模式证据并设置上限。

摘要:

我们在国际脉冲星计时阵列第二次数据发布中搜寻各向同性随机引力波背景(SGWB)。通过将SGWB建模为幂律谱,我们发现了支持公共谱过程的非常强的贝叶斯证据,并且该过程具有广义度规引力理论所允许的标量横(ST)相关性,其中支持ST相关过程相对于空间不相关公共谱过程的贝叶斯因子为$30\pm 2$。ST模式的中位数和90%等尾振幅为$\mathcal{A}_{\mathrm{ST}}= 1.29^{+0.51}_{-0.44} \times 10^{-15}$,或者等价地,在频率为1/年时,每个对数频率的能量密度参数为$\Omega_{\mathrm{GW}}^{\mathrm{ST}} = 2.31^{+2.19}_{-1.30} \times 10^{-9}$。然而,我们没有发现任何统计上显著的张量横(TT)模式证据,并在频率为1/年时给出95%的上限为$\mathcal{A}_{\mathrm{TT}}< 3.95 \times 10^{-15}$,或等价地$\Omega_{\mathrm{GW}}^{\mathrm{TT}}< 2.16 \times 10^{-9}$。

英文摘要:

We search for isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) in the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release. By modeling the SGWB as a power-law, we find very strong Bayesian evidence for a common-spectrum process, and further this process has scalar transverse (ST) correlations allowed in general metric theory of gravity as the Bayes factor in favor of the ST-correlated process versus the spatially uncorrelated common-spectrum process is $30\pm 2$. The median and the $90\%$ equal-tail amplitudes of ST mode are $\mathcal{A}_{\mathrm{ST}}= 1.29^{+0.51}_{-0.44} \times 10^{-15}$, or equivalently the energy density parameter per logarithm frequency is $Ω_{\mathrm{GW}}^{\mathrm{ST}} = 2.31^{+2.19}_{-1.30} \times 10^{-9}$, at frequency of 1/year. However, we do not find any statistically significant evidence for the tensor transverse (TT) mode and then place the $95\%$ upper limits as $\mathcal{A}_{\mathrm{TT}}< 3.95 \times 10^{-15}$, or equivalently $Ω_{\mathrm{GW}}^{\mathrm{TT}}< 2.16 \times 10^{-9}$, at frequency of 1/year.

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