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Gravitational wave nonlinearities and pulsar-timing array angular correlations

Gianmassimo Tasinato Orcid Logo

Physical Review D, Volume: 105, Issue: 8

Swansea University Author: Gianmassimo Tasinato Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1103/physrevd.105.083506

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Several pulsar-timing array (PTA) collaborations are finding tantalizing hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background signal in the nano-Hertz regime. So far, though, no convincing evidence for the expected Hellings-Downs quadrupolar correlations has been found. While this issue might get fi...

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Published in: Physical Review D
ISSN: 2470-0010 2470-0029
Published: American Physical Society (APS) 2022
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title Gravitational wave nonlinearities and pulsar-timing array angular correlations
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description Several pulsar-timing array (PTA) collaborations are finding tantalizing hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background signal in the nano-Hertz regime. So far, though, no convincing evidence for the expected Hellings-Downs quadrupolar correlations has been found. While this issue might get fixed at the light of more accurate, forthcoming data, it is important to keep an eye open on different possibilities and explore scenarios able to produce different types of PTA angular correlations. We point out that a stationary non-Gaussian component to the gravitational wave background can modulate the two-point PTA overlap reduction function, adding contributions that can help in fitting the angular distribution of PTA data. We discuss possible sources for such non-Gaussian signal in terms of cosmological processes occurring after inflation ends, and we investigate further tests for this idea.
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