Search for nontensorial gravitational-wave backgrounds in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset

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作者
Chen, Zu-Cheng [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
Wu, Yu-Mei [6 ,7 ]
Bi, Yan-Chen [7 ,8 ]
Huang, Qing-Guo [6 ,7 ,8 ]
机构
[1] Hunan Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Changsha 410081, Hunan, Peoples R China
[2] Hunan Normal Univ, Synerget Innovat Ctr Quantum Effects & Applicat, Changsha 410081, Hunan, Peoples R China
[3] Hunan Normal Univ, Inst Interdisciplinary Studies, Changsha 410081, Hunan, Peoples R China
[4] Beijing Normal Univ, Dept Astron, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China
[5] Beijing Normal Univ, Adv Inst Nat Sci, Zhuhai 519087, Peoples R China
[6] UCAS, Hangzhou Inst Adv Study, Sch Fundamental Phys & Math Sci, Hangzhou 310024, Peoples R China
[7] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Phys Sci, 19A Yuquan Rd, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
[8] Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Theoret Phys, Inst Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金; 中国博士后科学基金;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.109.084045
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The recent detection of a stochastic signal in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset has aroused great interest in uncovering its origin. However, the evidence for the Hellings-Downs correlations, a key signature of the gravitational-wave background (GWB) predicted by general relativity, remains inconclusive. In this paper, we search for an isotropic nontensorial GWB, allowed by general metric theories of gravity, in the NANOGrav 15-year dataset. Our analysis reveals a Bayes factor of approximately 2.5, comparing the quadrupolar (tensor transverse, TT) correlations to the scalar transverse (ST) correlations, suggesting that the ST correlations provide a comparable explanation for the observed stochastic signal in the NANOGrav data. We obtain the median and the 90% equal-tail amplitudes as AST = 7.8 & thorn;5.1-3.5 x 10-15 at the frequency of 1/year. Furthermore, we find that the vector longitudinal (VL) and scalar longitudinal (SL) correlations are weakly and strongly disfavored by data, respectively, yielding upper limits on the amplitudes: A95% 1.7 x 10-15 and A95% SL less than or similar to 7.4 x 10-17. Lastly, we fit the NANOGrav data with the general transverse (GT) correlations parametrized by a free parameter alpha. Our analysis yields alpha = 1.74 & thorn;1.18 TT (alpha = 3) and ST (alpha = 0) models at the 90% confidence level.
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