Princeton University Dark Cosmos Seminar
Harmonic Analysis of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Abstract: A stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is expected to be generated from a population of unresolved sources and potentially from early Universe processes. In the nHz band, supermassive black hole binaries generate a SGWB, and there have been hints that a detection of the SGWB by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) may be on the horizon. In this talk, I will discuss how PTA experiments characterize the expected signal of the SGWB and present a new analysis technique that may better facilitate searches for new physics.
Date & Time
December 13, 2022 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Location
Jadwin Hall, Joseph Henry Room , 1st FloorSpeakers
Kim Boddy
Affiliation
University of Texas at Austin