International Pulsar Timing Array
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International Pulsar Timing Array
@IPTA_GW
A consortium of consortia: @EPTAGW @NANOgrav @CSIRO_ATNF @InPTA_GW @APT_GW


Pulsar:J2317+1439 RA:23:17:09.2364 Dec:+14:39:31.265 Period:3.445e-03 s Pdot:2.430e-21 DM:21.877 pc/cm3 RM:-9.93 rad/m^2 Flux density at 400 MHz:19 mJy Age:2.246e+10 yr Field:9.150e+07 G Visible:Arecibo/CHIME/Effelsberg/FAST/GBT/GMRT/ MeerKAT/Parkes/VLA PTAs:NANOGrav/MPTA/IPTA



@Dr_CMingarelli My understanding is that detection is currently at the 4 sigma level - how long do you anticipate it will be before it reaches 5 sigma?

Paper 1: "The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for the Gravitational-Wave Background", lead authors Sarah Vigeland and Stephen Taylor. Discover evidence for the nanohertz GW background and its implications for our understanding of the universe. arxiv.org/abs/2306.16213


Australian astronomers have announced the strongest hint yet of low-frequency gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs! @Swinburne @ARC_OzGRav @CSIRO_ATNF iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…


The International Pulsar Timing Array is about to announce its results in just 15m - for background see this great video my work experience students Evie and Rebecca put together on it this week using OzGrav's Virtual Universe app! @ARC_OzGRav #IPTA #PulsarsAreTheBest


Astronomers may have found the whispers of low-frequency gravitational waves using pulsars. These space-time ripples could be the echoes of black holes in far-off galaxies, and were found by a team involving @Swinburne @ARC_OzGRav @CSIRO_ATNF @arc_gov_au ozgrav.org/news/australia…

We see early signs of a Gravitational Wave background in our combined dataset with @EPTAGW. These results corroborate with those from @NANOGrav and PPTA @CSIRO_ATNF @ARC_OzGRav Read along in this thread to know this discovery was made and it's consequences!


