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国际脉冲星定时阵列第二次数据发布:各向同性引力波背景的搜寻

The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic Gravitational Wave Background

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak, M. Bailes, A. -S. Bak Nielsen, P. T. Baker, C. G. Bassa, B. Becsy, A. Berthereau, M. Bonetti, A. Brazier, P. R. Brook, … 展开作者

J. Antoniadis, Z. Arzoumanian, S. Babak, M. Bailes, A. -S. Bak Nielsen, P. T. Baker, C. G. Bassa, B. Becsy, A. Berthereau, M. Bonetti, A. Brazier, P. R. Brook, M. Burgay, S. Burke-Spolaor, R. N. Caballero, J. A. Casey-Clyde, A. Chalumeau, D. J. Champion, M. Charisi, S. Chatterjee, S. Chen, I. Cognard, J. M. Cordes, N. J. Cornish, F. Crawford, H. T. Cromartie, K. Crowter, S. Dai, M. E. DeCesar, P. B. Demorest, G. Desvignes, T. Dolch, B. Drachler, M. Falxa, E. C. Ferrara, W. Fiore, E. Fonseca, J. R. Gair, N. Garver-Daniels, B. Goncharov, D. C. Good, E. Graikou, L. Guillemot, Y. J. Guo, J. S. Hazboun, G. Hobbs, H. Hu, K. Islo, G. H. Janssen, R. J. Jennings, A. D. Johnson, M. L. Jones, A. R. Kaiser, D. L. Kaplan, R. Karuppusamy, M. J. Keith, L. Z. Kelley, M. Kerr, J. S. Key, M. Kramer, M. T. Lam, W. G. Lamb, T. J. W. Lazio, K. J. Lee, L. Lentati, K. Liu, J. Luo, R. S. Lynch, A. G. Lyne, D. R. Madison, R. A. Main, R. N. Manchester, A. McEwen, J. W. McKee, M. A. McLaughlin, M. B. Mickaliger, C. M. F. Mingarelli, C. Ng, D. J. Nice, S. Os lowski, A. Parthasarathy, T. T. Pennucci, B. B. P. Perera, D. Perrodin, A. Petiteau, N. S. Pol, N. K. Porayko, A. Possenti, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, D. J. Reardon, C. J. Russell, A. Samajdar, L. M. Sampson, S. Sanidas, J. M. Sarkissian, K. Schmitz, L. Schult, A. Sesana, G. Shaifullah, R. M. Shannon, B. J. Shapiro-Albert, X. Siemens, J. Simon, T. L. Smith, L. Speri, R. Spiewak, I. H. Stairs, B. W. Stappers, D. R. Stinebring, J. K. Swiggum, S. R. Taylor, G. Theureau, C. Tiburzi, M. Vallisneri, E. van der Wateren, A. Vecchio, J. P. W. Verbiest, S. J. Vigeland, H. Wahl, J. B. Wang, J. Wang, L. Wang, C. A. Witt, S. Zhang, X. J. Zhu

摘要:

我们在国际脉冲星定时阵列的第二次数据发布中搜索了各向同性随机引力波背景,国际脉冲星定时阵列是一个全球合作,综合了北美,欧洲和澳大利亚的十年长度脉冲星定时活动。在我们对$h_c = A(f/1\,\mathrm{yr}^{-1})^α$形式的幂律应变谱的参考搜索中,我们发现了振幅$A = 3.8^{+6.3}_{-2.5}\times10^{-15}$和谱指数$α= -0.5 \pm 0.5$的谱相似低频随机过程的强有力证据,其中不确定性代表95\%的可信区域,使用来自阵列中的谱元之间的自相关和互相关项的信息。对于$α= -2/3$的光谱指数,正如从吸入超大质量黑洞双星的人口预期的那样,恢复的振幅是$A = 2.8^{+1.2}_{-0.8}\times10^{-15}$。尽管如此,没有显着的证据表明,将指示引力波origination.We的海林斯唐斯相关性也分析了来自各个脉冲星定时阵列的组成数据在一个一致的方式,并清楚地表明,合并的国际数据集更敏感。此外,我们证明,这种组合的数据集产生可比的约束,最近的单阵列数据集,有更多的数据比组合的组成部分。未来的国际数据发布将提高对引力波辐射的灵敏度,并显著提高探测概率。

英文摘要:

We searched for an isotropic stochastic gravitational wave background in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array, a global collaboration synthesizing decadal-length pulsar-timing campaigns in North America, Europe, and Australia. In our reference search for a power law strain spectrum of the form $h_c = A(f/1\,\mathrm{yr}^{-1})^α$, we found strong evidence for a spectrally-similar low-frequency stochastic process of amplitude $A = 3.8^{+6.3}_{-2.5}\times10^{-15}$ and spectral index $α= -0.5 \pm 0.5$, where the uncertainties represent 95\% credible regions, using information from the auto- and cross-correlation terms between the pulsars in the array. For a spectral index of $α= -2/3$, as expected from a population of inspiralling supermassive black hole binaries, the recovered amplitude is $A = 2.8^{+1.2}_{-0.8}\times10^{-15}$. Nonetheless, no significant evidence of the Hellings-Downs correlations that would indicate a gravitational-wave origin was found. We also analyzed the constituent data from the individual pulsar timing arrays in a consistent way, and clearly demonstrate that the combined international data set is more sensitive. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this combined data set produces comparable constraints to recent single-array data sets which have more data than the constituent parts of the combination. Future international data releases will deliver increased sensitivity to gravitational wave radiation, and significantly increase the detection probability.

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