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Orbiting supermassive black holes in the centres of nearby galaxies contribute to a gravitational-wave background over the whole sky. Networks of millisecond pulsars are sensitive to this signal. Creating maps… Click to show full abstract
Orbiting supermassive black holes in the centres of nearby galaxies contribute to a gravitational-wave background over the whole sky. Networks of millisecond pulsars are sensitive to this signal. Creating maps of this background using information from known galaxies can help us to project when (and how) we may observe it.
Keywords:
tuning pulsars;
massive galaxies;
pulsars listen;
listen massive
Journal Title: Nature Astronomy
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Nature Astronomy
Year Published: 2017
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