The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Pulsar timing array collaborations, such as the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), are seeking to detect nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by supermassive black hole binaries formed in the aftermath of galaxy mergers. We have searched for continuous waves fr...
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author | Zaven Arzoumanian Paul T. Baker Laura Blecha Harsha Blumer Adam Brazier Paul R. Brook Sarah Burke-Spolaor Bence Bécsy J. Andrew Casey-Clyde Maria Charisi Shami Chatterjee Siyuan Chen James M. Cordes Neil J. Cornish Fronefield Crawford H. Thankful Cromartie Megan E. DeCesar Paul B. Demorest Timothy Dolch Brendan Drachler Justin A. Ellis E. C. Ferrara William Fiore Emmanuel Fonseca Gabriel E. Freedman Nathan Garver-Daniels Peter A. Gentile Joseph Glaser Deborah C. Good Kayhan Gültekin Jeffrey S. Hazboun Ross J. Jennings Aaron D. Johnson Megan L. Jones Andrew R. Kaiser David L. Kaplan Luke Zoltan Kelley Joey Shapiro Key Nima Laal Michael T. Lam William G Lamb T. Joseph W. Lazio Natalia Lewandowska Tingting Liu Duncan R. Lorimer Jing Luo Ryan S. Lynch Dustin R. Madison Alexander McEwen Maura A. McLaughlin Chiara M. F. Mingarelli Cherry Ng David J. Nice Stella Koch Ocker Ken D. Olum Timothy T. Pennucci Nihan S. Pol Scott M. Ransom Paul S. Ray Joseph D. Romano Brent J. Shapiro-Albert Xavier Siemens Joseph Simon Magdalena Siwek Renée Spiewak Ingrid H. Stairs Daniel R. Stinebring Kevin Stovall Joseph K. Swiggum Jessica Sydnor Stephen R. Taylor Jacob E. Turner Michele Vallisneri Sarah J. Vigeland Haley M. Wahl Gregory Walsh Caitlin A. Witt Olivia Young The NANOGrav Collaboration |
author_facet | Zaven Arzoumanian Paul T. Baker Laura Blecha Harsha Blumer Adam Brazier Paul R. Brook Sarah Burke-Spolaor Bence Bécsy J. Andrew Casey-Clyde Maria Charisi Shami Chatterjee Siyuan Chen James M. Cordes Neil J. Cornish Fronefield Crawford H. Thankful Cromartie Megan E. DeCesar Paul B. Demorest Timothy Dolch Brendan Drachler Justin A. Ellis E. C. Ferrara William Fiore Emmanuel Fonseca Gabriel E. Freedman Nathan Garver-Daniels Peter A. Gentile Joseph Glaser Deborah C. Good Kayhan Gültekin Jeffrey S. Hazboun Ross J. Jennings Aaron D. Johnson Megan L. Jones Andrew R. Kaiser David L. Kaplan Luke Zoltan Kelley Joey Shapiro Key Nima Laal Michael T. Lam William G Lamb T. Joseph W. Lazio Natalia Lewandowska Tingting Liu Duncan R. Lorimer Jing Luo Ryan S. Lynch Dustin R. Madison Alexander McEwen Maura A. McLaughlin Chiara M. F. Mingarelli Cherry Ng David J. Nice Stella Koch Ocker Ken D. Olum Timothy T. Pennucci Nihan S. Pol Scott M. Ransom Paul S. Ray Joseph D. Romano Brent J. Shapiro-Albert Xavier Siemens Joseph Simon Magdalena Siwek Renée Spiewak Ingrid H. Stairs Daniel R. Stinebring Kevin Stovall Joseph K. Swiggum Jessica Sydnor Stephen R. Taylor Jacob E. Turner Michele Vallisneri Sarah J. Vigeland Haley M. Wahl Gregory Walsh Caitlin A. Witt Olivia Young The NANOGrav Collaboration |
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description | Pulsar timing array collaborations, such as the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), are seeking to detect nanohertz gravitational waves emitted by supermassive black hole binaries formed in the aftermath of galaxy mergers. We have searched for continuous waves from individual circular supermassive black hole binaries using NANOGrav’s recent 12.5 yr data set. We created new methods to accurately model the uncertainties on pulsar distances in our analysis, and we implemented new techniques to account for a common red-noise process in pulsar timing array data sets while searching for deterministic gravitational wave signals, including continuous waves. As we found no evidence for continuous waves in our data, we placed 95% upper limits on the strain amplitude of continuous waves emitted by these sources. At our most sensitive frequency of 7.65 nHz, we placed a sky-averaged limit of h _0 < (6.82 ± 0.35) × 10 ^−15 , and h _0 < (2.66 ± 0.15) × 10 ^−15 in our most sensitive sky location. Finally, we placed a multimessenger limit of ${ \mathcal M }\lt (1.41\pm 0.02)\times {10}^{9}\,{M}_{\odot }$ on the chirp mass of the supermassive black hole binary candidate 3C 66B. |
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spelling | doaj.art-aea520d4315f4672b5b88284571920882023-09-03T12:20:53ZengIOP PublishingThe Astrophysical Journal Letters2041-82052023-01-019512L2810.3847/2041-8213/acdbc7The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole BinariesZaven Arzoumanian0Paul T. Baker1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2745-753XLaura Blecha2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-1087Harsha Blumer3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-884XAdam Brazier4Paul R. Brook5https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3053-6538Sarah Burke-Spolaor6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4052-7838Bence Bécsy7https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-5563J. Andrew Casey-Clyde8https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5557-4007Maria Charisi9https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3579-2522Shami Chatterjee10https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2878-1502Siyuan Chen11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-5963James M. Cordes12https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4049-1882Neil J. Cornish13https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7435-0869Fronefield Crawford14https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2578-0360H. Thankful Cromartie15https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6039-692XMegan E. DeCesar16https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2185-1790Paul B. Demorest17https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6664-965XTimothy Dolch18https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8885-6388Brendan Drachler19Justin A. Ellis20E. C. Ferrara21https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7828-7708William Fiore22https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-5336Emmanuel Fonseca23https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8384-5049Gabriel E. Freedman24https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7624-4616Nathan Garver-Daniels25https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6166-9646Peter A. Gentile26https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8158-683XJoseph Glaser27https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4090-9780Deborah C. Good28https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1884-348XKayhan Gültekin29https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1146-0198Jeffrey S. Hazboun30https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2742-3321Ross J. Jennings31https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-2342Aaron D. 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As we found no evidence for continuous waves in our data, we placed 95% upper limits on the strain amplitude of continuous waves emitted by these sources. At our most sensitive frequency of 7.65 nHz, we placed a sky-averaged limit of h _0 < (6.82 ± 0.35) × 10 ^−15 , and h _0 < (2.66 ± 0.15) × 10 ^−15 in our most sensitive sky location. Finally, we placed a multimessenger limit of ${ \mathcal M }\lt (1.41\pm 0.02)\times {10}^{9}\,{M}_{\odot }$ on the chirp mass of the supermassive black hole binary candidate 3C 66B.https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acdbc7Gravitational wavesAstronomy data analysisMillisecond pulsarsSupermassive black holes |
spellingShingle | Zaven Arzoumanian Paul T. Baker Laura Blecha Harsha Blumer Adam Brazier Paul R. Brook Sarah Burke-Spolaor Bence Bécsy J. Andrew Casey-Clyde Maria Charisi Shami Chatterjee Siyuan Chen James M. Cordes Neil J. Cornish Fronefield Crawford H. Thankful Cromartie Megan E. DeCesar Paul B. Demorest Timothy Dolch Brendan Drachler Justin A. Ellis E. C. Ferrara William Fiore Emmanuel Fonseca Gabriel E. Freedman Nathan Garver-Daniels Peter A. Gentile Joseph Glaser Deborah C. Good Kayhan Gültekin Jeffrey S. Hazboun Ross J. Jennings Aaron D. Johnson Megan L. Jones Andrew R. Kaiser David L. Kaplan Luke Zoltan Kelley Joey Shapiro Key Nima Laal Michael T. Lam William G Lamb T. Joseph W. Lazio Natalia Lewandowska Tingting Liu Duncan R. Lorimer Jing Luo Ryan S. Lynch Dustin R. Madison Alexander McEwen Maura A. McLaughlin Chiara M. F. Mingarelli Cherry Ng David J. Nice Stella Koch Ocker Ken D. Olum Timothy T. Pennucci Nihan S. Pol Scott M. Ransom Paul S. Ray Joseph D. Romano Brent J. Shapiro-Albert Xavier Siemens Joseph Simon Magdalena Siwek Renée Spiewak Ingrid H. Stairs Daniel R. Stinebring Kevin Stovall Joseph K. Swiggum Jessica Sydnor Stephen R. Taylor Jacob E. Turner Michele Vallisneri Sarah J. Vigeland Haley M. Wahl Gregory Walsh Caitlin A. Witt Olivia Young The NANOGrav Collaboration The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries The Astrophysical Journal Letters Gravitational waves Astronomy data analysis Millisecond pulsars Supermassive black holes |
title | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
title_full | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
title_fullStr | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
title_full_unstemmed | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
title_short | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
title_sort | nanograv 12 5 yr data set bayesian limits on gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries |
topic | Gravitational waves Astronomy data analysis Millisecond pulsars Supermassive black holes |
url | https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acdbc7 |
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