Speaker
Description
Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) projects hold the promise of becoming sensitive Gravitational-Wave (GW) detectors in the nanoHertz frequency band. Multiple international PTA collaborations are actively timing an array of pulsars with their respective radio observatories, and each collaboration carries out GW searches in their own data. In principle, a combined search over all available PTA data is much more sensitive than what the individual PTA collaborations can achieve. However, combining the dataset is an involved project that takes years. The international combined GW searches have therefore historically lagged behind the individual PTA results by years, and are actually effectively less sensitive. I will show how to dynamically combine PTA datasets, which immediately increases the effective sensitivity of the entire international PTA community.
| Talk category | data science (contact d.huppenkothen@uva.nl) |
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| Preference for a talk or poster | Talk |
