Prospects for gravitational-wave detection and supermassive black hole astrophysics with pulsar timing arrays

Large-area sky surveys show that massive galaxies undergo at least one major merger in a Hubble time. Ongoing pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments are aimed at measuring the gravitational-wave (GW) emission from binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centres of galaxy merger remnants. In th...

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Main Authors: Ravi, V., Wyithe, J., Shannon, Ryan, Hobbs, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25457