Prior volume effect inflates the gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing arrays

arXiv:2610.28739 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.IM, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables; End Matter (2 pages, 2 figures) and Supplemental Material (4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• pulsar timing arrays — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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