5–9 Dec 2022
Australia/Sydney timezone

Extending pulsar timing sensitivity below the nanohertz range

8 Dec 2022, 16:10
20m
149 (Old Main Building)

149

Old Main Building

Particle astrophysics Particle astrophysics

Speaker

William DeRocco

Description

We present a first search for continuous ultra-low-frequency gravitational wave sources using secular variations of pulsar parameters. This new methodology extends the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays well below the nanohertz range. The results are complementary to the typical analysis and provide competitive sensitivity, with the potential to observe supermassive black hole binaries within the next ten years

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