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Search for the gravitational wave memory effect with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2013

Jingbo Wang ,
G. Hobbs  and
Na Wang
Jingbo Wang
Affiliation:
Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science, 150 Science 1-Street, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, 830011 email: wangjingbo@xao.ac.cn University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.19A Yuquan Road, Beijing, China, 100049 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
G. Hobbs
Affiliation:
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia Telescope National Facility, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia
Na Wang
Affiliation:
Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science, 150 Science 1-Street, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, 830011 email: wangjingbo@xao.ac.cn Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, China, 210008
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Abstract

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Gravitational wave bursts produced by supermassive binary black hole mergers will leave a persistent imprint on the space-time metric. Such gravitational wave memory signals are detectable by pulsar timing arrays as a glitch event that would seem to occur simultaneously for all pulsars. In this paper, we describe an initial algorithm which can be used to search for gravitational wave memory signals. We apply this algorithm to the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array data set. No significant gravitational wave memory signal is founded in the data set.

Keywords

gravitational wavespulsarblack holes
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars: Challenges and Opportunities after 80 years , August 2012 , pp. 543 - 545
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013

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