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 Floor

Speakers

Kim Boddy

Affiliation

University of Texas at Austin