Neha Anil Kumar1, Marc Kamionkowski1

  • 1William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, <a href="https://ror.org/00za53h95">Johns Hopkins University</a>, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

Physical review letters
|October 25, 2024
PubMed
概括

脉冲星计时阵列使用相关函数检测引力波 (GWs). 本研究提出了这些函数的一般公式,解释了GW背景中的任意极化和异质性.

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