1st Edition

Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy

By Stephen R. Taylor Copyright 2022
172 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

172 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

172 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO detections to the search for polarization patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background, then hones in on the band of nanohertz frequencies... Read more

Chapter 1.  A Window onto the Warped Universe

Chapter 2. Gravity and Gravitational Waves

Chapter 3. Pulsar Timing

Chapter 4. Sources and Signals

Chapter 5. Data Analysis

Chapter 6. Numerical Bayesian Techniques

Chapter 7. The PTA Likelihood

Chapter 8. The Past, Present and Future of PTA's

Biography

Stephen R. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Born and raised in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, he went on to read Physics at Jesus College, Oxford from 2006-2010, and earned his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 2014. His positions have included a NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a NANOGrav Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. He currently lives in Nashville with his wife Erika and cat Olive.