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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background

Publicat a: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 951 (1): L8- - 2023-07-01 951(1), DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acdac6

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Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T; Becsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah; Burnette, Rand; Case, Robin; Charisi, Maria; Chatterjee, Shami; Chatziioannou, Katerina; Cheeseboro, Belinda D; Chen, Siyuan; Cohen, Tyler; Cordes, James M; Cornish, Neil; Crawford, Fronefield; Cromartie, H Thankful; Crowter, Kathryn; Cutler, Curt J; DeCesar, Megan E; DeGan, Dallas; Demorest, Paul B; Deng, Heling; Dolch, Timothy; Drachler, Brendan; Ellis, Justin A; Ferrara, Elizabeth C; Fiore, William; Fonseca, Emmanuel; Freedman, Gabriel E; Garver-Daniels, Nate; Gentile, Peter A; Gersbach, Kyle A; Glaser, Joseph; Good, Deborah C; Gueltekin, Kayhan; Hazboun, Jeffrey S; Hourihane, Sophie; Islo, Kristina; Jennings, Ross J; Johnson, Aaron D; Jones, Megan L; Kaiser, Andrew R; Kaplan, David L; Kelley, Luke Zoltan; Kerr, Matthew; Key, Joey S; Klein, Tonia C; Laal, Nima; Lam, Michael T; Lamb, William G; Lazio, T Joseph W; Lewandowska, Natalia; Littenberg, Tyson B; Liu, Tingting; Lommen, Andrea; Lorimer, Duncan R; Luo, Jing; Lynch, Ryan S; Ma, Chung-Pei; Madison, Dustin R; Mattson, Margaret A; McEwen, Alexander; McKee, James W; McLaughlin, Maura A; McMann, Natasha; Meyers, Bradley W; Meyers, Patrick M; Mingarelli, Chiara M F; Mitridate, Andrea; Natarajan, Priyamvada; Ng, Cherry; Nice, David J; Ocker, Stella Koch; Olum, Ken D; Pennucci, Timothy T; Perera, Benetge B P; Petrov, Polina; Pol, Nihan S; Radovan, Henri A; Ransom, Scott M; Ray, Paul S; Romano, Joseph D; Sardesai, Shashwat C; Schmiedekamp, Ann; Schmiedekamp, Carl; Schmitz, Kai; Schult, Levi; Shapiro-Albert, Brent J; Siemens, Xavier; Simon, Joseph; Siwek, Magdalena S; Stairs, Ingrid H; Stinebring, Daniel R; Stovall, Kevin; Sun, Jerry P; Susobhanan, Abhimanyu; Swiggum, Joseph K; Taylor, Jacob; Taylor, Stephen R; Turner, Jacob E; Unal, Caner; Vallisneri, Michele; van Haasteren, Rutger; Vigeland, Sarah J; Wahl, Haley M; Wang, Qiaohong; Witt, Caitlin A; Young, Olivia
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We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67 pulsars from the 15 yr pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves. The correlations follow the Hellings-Downs pattern expected for a stochastic gravitational-wave background. The presence of such a gravitational-wave background with a power-law spectrum is favored over a model with only independent pulsar noises with a Bayes factor in excess of 1014, and this same model is favored over an uncorrelated common power-law spectrum model with Bayes factors of 200-1000, depending on spectral modeling choices. We have built a statistical background distribution for the latter Bayes factors using a method that removes interpulsar correlations from our data set, finding p = 10-3 (similar to 3s) for the observed Bayes factors in the null no-correlation scenario. A frequentist test statistic built directly as a weighted sum of interpulsar correlations yields p = 5 x 10-5 to 1.9 x 10-4 (similar to 3.5s-4s). Assuming a fiducial f -2/3 characteristic strain spectrum, as appropriate for an ensemble of binary supermassive black hole inspirals, the strain amplitude is 2.4 0.6 100.7 ' 15 -+ - (median + 90% credible interval) at a reference frequency of 1 yr-1. The inferred gravitationalwave background amplitude and spectrum are consistent with astrophysical expectations for a signal from a population of supermassive black hole binaries, although more exotic cosmological and astrophysical sources cannot be excluded. The observation of Hellings-Downs correlations points to the gravitational-wave origin of this signal.
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AstrophysicsBlack-hole binariesEphemeridesEvolutionGalaxieLimitsPulsarRadiationSearchSignal

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The NANOGrav Collaboration receives support from National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center award Nos. 1430284 and 2020265, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, NSF AccelNet award No. 2114721, an NSERC Discovery Grant, and CIFAR. The Arecibo Observatory is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement (AST-1744119) by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in alliance with Universidad Ana G. Mendez (UAGM) and Yang Enterprises (YEI), Inc. The Green Bank Observatory is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the NSF operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation grant No. ACI-1548562. Specifically, it used the Bridges-2 system, which is supported by NSF award No. ACI-1928147, at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). This work was conducted using the Thorny Flat HPC Cluster at West Virginia University (WVU), which is funded in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) award No. 1726534 and West Virginia University. This work was also conducted in part using the resources of the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. This work was facilitated through the use of advanced computational, storage, and networking infrastructure provided by the Hyak supercomputer system at the University of Washington. This research was supported in part through computational resources and services provided by Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. NANOGrav is part of the International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA); we would like to thank our IPTA colleagues for their feedback on this paper. We thank members of the IPTA Detection Committee for developing the IPTA Detection Checklist. We thank Bruce Allen for useful feedback. We thank Valentina Di Marco and Eric Thrane for uncovering a bug in the sky scramble code. We thank Jolien Creighton and Leo Stein for helpful conversations about background estimation. L.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under award AST-1909933 and from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement under Cottrell Scholar Award No. 27553. P.R.B. is supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, grant No. ST/W000946/1. S.B. gratefully acknowledges the support of a Sloan Fellowship and the support of NSF under award No. 1815664. The work of R.B., R.C., D.D., N.La., X.S., J.P.S., and J.T. is partly supported by the George and Hannah Bolinger Memorial Fund in the College of Science at Oregon State University. M.C., P.P., and S.R.T. acknowledge support from NSF AST-2007993. M.C. and N.S.P. were supported by the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data Intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) Fellowship. K.Ch., A.D.J., and M.V. acknowledge support from the Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory President's and Director's Research and Development Fund. K.Ch. and A.D.J. acknowledge support from the Sloan Foundation. Support for this work was provided by the NSF through the Grote Reber Fellowship Program administered by Associated Universities, Inc./National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Support for H.T.C. is provided by NASA through the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program grant No. HST-HF2-51453. 001 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. K.Cr. is supported by a UBC Four Year Fellowship (6456). M.E.D. acknowledges support from the Naval Research Laboratory by NASA under contract S-15633Y. T.D. and M.T.L. are supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics grant (AAG) award No. 2009468. E.C.F. is supported by NASA under award No. 80GSFC21M0002. G.E.F., S.C.S., and S.J.V. are supported by NSF award PHY-2011772. K.A.G. and S.R.T. acknowledge support from an NSF CAREER award No. 2146016. The Flatiron Institute is supported by the Simons Foundation. S.H. is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant No. DGE-1745301. N.La. acknowledges support from the Larry W. Martin and Joyce B. O'Neill Endowed Fellowship in the College of Science at Oregon State University. Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). D.R.L. and M.A.Mc. are supported by NSF No. 1458952. M.A.Mc. is supported by NSF No. 2009425. C.M.F.M. was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant Nos. NSF PHY-1748958 and AST-2106552. A.Mi. is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft under Germany's Excellence Strategy-EXC 2121 Quantum Universe-390833306. P.N. acknowledges support from the BHI, funded by grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The Dunlap Institute is funded by an endowment established by the David Dunlap family and the University of Toronto. K.D.O. was supported in part by NSF grant No. 2207267. T.T.P. acknowledges support from the Extragalactic Astrophysics Research Group at Eoetvoes Lorand University, funded by the Eoetvoes Lorand Research Network (ELKH), which was used during the development of this research. S.M.R. and I.H.S. are CIFAR Fellows. Portions of this work performed at NRL were supported by ONR 6.1 basic research funding. J.D.R. also acknowledges support from start-up funds from Texas Tech University. J.S. is supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-2202388 and acknowledges previous support by the NSF under award 1847938. C.U. acknowledges support from BGU (Kreitman fellowship) and the Council for Higher Education and Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Excellence fellowship). C.A.W. acknowledges support from CIERA, the Adler Planetarium, and the Brinson Foundation through a CIERA-Adler postdoctoral fellowship. O.Y. is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under grant No. DGE-2139292.& nbsp;
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