The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

被引：513

作者：

Hobbs, G. ^{[1
]}

Archibald, A. ^{[2
]}

Arzoumanian, Z. ^{[3
]}

Backer, D. ^{[4
,5
]}

Bailes, M. ^{[6
]}

Bhat, N. D. R. ^{[6
]}

Burgay, M. ^{[7
]}

Burke-Spolaor, S. ^{[1
,6
]}

Champion, D. ^{[1
,8
]}

Cognard, I. ^{[9
]}

Coles, W. ^{[10
]}

Cordes, J. ^{[11
]}

Demorest, P. ^{[12
]}

Desvignes, G. ^{[9
]}

Ferdman, R. D. ^{[9
]}

Finn, L. ^{[13
]}

Freire, P. ^{[8
]}

Gonzalez, M. ^{[14
]}

Hessels, J. ^{[15
]}

Hotan, A. ^{[16
]}

Janssen, G. ^{[17
]}

Jenet, F. ^{[18
]}

Jessner, A. ^{[8
]}

Jordan, C. ^{[17
]}

Kaspi, V. ^{[2
]}

Kramer, M. ^{[8
,17
]}

Kondratiev, V. ^{[19
]}

Lazio, J. ^{[20
]}

Lazaridis, K. ^{[8
]}

Lee, K. J. ^{[21
]}

Levin, Y. ^{[22
]}

Lommen, A. ^{[23
]}

Lorimer, D. ^{[19
]}

Lynch, R. ^{[24
]}

Lyne, A. ^{[17
]}

Manchester, R. ^{[1
]}

McLaughlin, M. ^{[19
]}

Nice, D. ^{[25
]}

Oslowski, S. ^{[1
,6
]}

Pilia, M. ^{[7
]}

Possenti, A. ^{[7
]}

Purver, M. ^{[17
]}

Ransom, S. ^{[12
]}

Reynolds, J. ^{[1
]}

Sanidas, S. ^{[17
]}

Sarkissian, J. ^{[1
]}

Sesana, A. ^{[13
]}

Shannon, R. ^{[11
]}

Siemens, X. ^{[26
]}

Stairs, I.

机构：

[1] Australia Telescope Natl Facil, CSIRO, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

[2] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

[3] NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, CRESST USRA, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Radio Astron Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[6] Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia

[7] Univ Cagliari, Dipartimento Fis, I-09042 Monserrato, CA, Italy

[8] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

[9] Observ Paris, Stn Radioastron Nanay, F-18330 Nancy, France

[10] Univ Calif San Diego, San Diego, CA 92103 USA

[11] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[12] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

[13] Penn State Univ, Ctr Gravitat Wave Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

[14] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

[15] Univ Amsterdam, Astron Inst Anton Pannekoek, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands

[16] Curtin Univ, Dept Imaging & Appl Phys, Bentley, WA, Australia

[17] Univ Manchester, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[18] Univ Texas Brownsville, Ctr Gravitat Wave Astron, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA

[19] W Virginia Univ, Dept Phys, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA

[20] Naval Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA

[21] Peking Univ, Dept Astron, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China

[22] Leiden Univ, Leiden Observ, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands

[23] Franklin & Marshall Coll, Lancaster, PA 17604 USA

[24] Univ Virginia, Dept Astron, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA

[25] Bryn Mawr Coll, Dept Phys, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 USA

[26] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Ctr Gravitat & Cosmol, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA

[27] Oberlin Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Oberlin, OH 44074 USA

[28] Univ Sydney, Dept Phys & Astron, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

[29] SW Univ, Sch Phys Sci & Technol, Chongqing 400715, Peoples R China

来源：

CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY | 2010年 / 27卷 / 08期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

HOLE BINARY-SYSTEMS; PACKAGE; TEMPO2; LIMITS; TESTS;

D O I：

10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084013

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The International Pulsar Timing Array project combines observations of pulsars from both northern and southern hemisphere observatories with the main aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (similar to 10(-9)-10(-8) Hz) gravitational waves. Here we introduce the project, review the methods used to search for gravitational waves emitted from coalescing supermassive binary black-hole systems in the centres of merging galaxies and discuss the status of the project.

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