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Constraints On The Dynamical Environments Of Supermassive Black-hole Binaries Using Pulsar-timing Arrays

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arxiv 1612.02817 v3 pith:QV2ZURP6 submitted 2016-12-08 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.IMgr-qc

Constraints On The Dynamical Environments Of Supermassive Black-hole Binaries Using Pulsar-timing Arrays

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We introduce a technique for gravitational-wave analysis, where Gaussian process regression is used to emulate the strain spectrum of a stochastic background using population-synthesis simulations. This leads to direct Bayesian inference on astrophysical parameters. For PTAs specifically, we interpolate over the parameter space of supermassive black-hole binary environments, including 3-body stellar scattering, and evolving orbital eccentricity. We illustrate our approach on mock data, and assess the prospects for inference with data similar to the NANOGrav 9-yr data release.

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