Scientists find key evidence for existence of nanohertz gravitational waves

Phys.org  June 28, 2023 The research by an international team of researchers (China, Germany, Greece, Australia) was based on pulsar timing observations carried out with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Observing and timing a group of millisecond pulsars with high rotational stability enabled the direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW signals could be identified from the spatial correlations encoded in the times-of-arrival of widely spaced pulsar-pairs. According to the researchers this short article serves as a “table of contents” for a forthcoming series of papers related to the CPTA Data Release 1 (CPTA DR1) which uses […]