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Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Upper Limits on Microhertz Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Black-hole Binaries Using PSR J1713+0747 FAST Data

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We derive the gravitational-wave (GW) strain upper limits from resolvable supermassive black-hole binaries using the data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, in the context of the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array project. We focus on circular orbits in the μHz GW frequency band between 10−7 and 3 × 10−6 Hz. This frequency band is higher than the traditional pulsar timing array band and is less explored. We used the data of the millisecond pulsar PSR J1713+5307 observed between 2019 August and 2021 April. A dense observation campaign was carried out in 2020 September to allow for the μHz band coverage. Our sky-averaged continuous source upper limit at the 95% confidence level at 1 μHz is 1.26 × 10−12, while the same limit in the direction of the pulsar is 4.77 × 10−13.

Source: Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/adb5d6