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Title

TEMPO2: a new pulsar timing package III: gravitational wave simulation

Author(s)

Hobbs, George B.;  Jenet, Frederick A.;  Lee, K. J.;  Verbiest, J. P. W.;  Yardley, D.;  Manchester, Richard N.;  Lommen, Andrea N.;  Coles, William A.;  Edwards, R.;  Shettigara, C.

Abstract

Analysis of pulsar timing data sets may provide the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This paper. the third in a series describing the mathematical framework implemented into the TEMPO2 pulsar timing Package, reports on using TEMPO2 to simulate the timing residuals induced by gravitational waves. The TEMPO2 simulations can be used to provide upper bounds on the amplitude of an isotropic, stochastic. gravitational wave background in our Galaxy and to determine the sensitivity of a given pulsar timing experiment to individual, supermassive, binary black hole systems.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 394, no. 4 (Apr 2009), pp. 1945-1955

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences

Keyword(s)

3C 66B;  Black hole binaries;  Gravitational waves;  Motion;  Numerical methods;  Pulsar timing;  Pulsars;  Radiation

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

ISSN

0035-8711

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14391.x

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 The Authors. Journal compilation copyright © 2009 RAS.

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