The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search For An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background — mentioned by privong

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:01:04 GMT

It's alluded to in the Quanta Mag article, but it's worth repeating the information from the NANOgrav discovery paper[0], as stated in the paper's abstract: However, we find no statistically significant evidence that this process has quadrupolar spatial correlations, which we would consider necessary to claim a GWB detection consistent with General Relativity. So I'm inclined to think that all the "explanation" papers are premature. It's an interesting (low-significance) signal in the data, but more data are needed. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04496

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The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search For An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background — mentioned by privong