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  • Searching for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string cusps with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

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    Author(s)
    Yonemaru, N
    Kuroyanagi, S
    Hobbs, G
    Takahashi, K
    Zhu, XJ
    Coles, WA
    Dai, S
    Howard, E
    Manchester, R
    Reardon, D
    Russell, C
    Shannon, RM
    Thyagarajan, N
    Spiewak, R
    Wang, JB
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Howard, Eric M.
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Cosmic strings are potential gravitational-wave (GW) sources that can be probed by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). In this work we develop a detection algorithm for a GW burst from a cusp on a cosmic string, and apply it to Parkes PTA data. We find four events with a false alarm probability less than 1 per cent. However further investigation shows that all of these are likely to be spurious. As there are no convincing detections we place upper limits on the GW amplitude for different event durations. From these bounds we place limits on the cosmic string tension of Gμ ∼ 10−5, and highlight that this bound is independent from ...
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    Cosmic strings are potential gravitational-wave (GW) sources that can be probed by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). In this work we develop a detection algorithm for a GW burst from a cusp on a cosmic string, and apply it to Parkes PTA data. We find four events with a false alarm probability less than 1 per cent. However further investigation shows that all of these are likely to be spurious. As there are no convincing detections we place upper limits on the GW amplitude for different event durations. From these bounds we place limits on the cosmic string tension of Gμ ∼ 10−5, and highlight that this bound is independent from those obtained using other techniques. We discuss the physical implications of our results and the prospect of probing cosmic strings in the era of Square Kilometre Array.
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    Journal Title
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Volume
    501
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3721
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 Oxford University Press. This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Tree Physiology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Searching for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string cusps with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 501 (1), pp. 701-712 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3721.
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    Astronomical and Space Sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/402499
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