14–18 Aug 2023
MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Europe/Berlin timezone

Testing gravity in the nanohertz GW regime using PTA correlations

16 Aug 2023, 14:00
30m
2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room (MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

2413/2-430 - MITP Seminar Room

MITP - Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
40

Speaker

Reginald Bernando

Description

The pulsar timing arrays' recent astronomical milestone of the detection of the stochastic gravitational wave background presents a new window of opportunity to study gravity in the nanohertz gravitational wave regime. In this talk, we present such tests focusing on both pulsar timing array measurements of the gravitational wave spatial correlation and the power spectrum. Our results suggest that PTAs can be its best version for testing gravity by focusing on the power spectrum.

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