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Searching for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Cosmic String Cusps with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array’s Third Data Release
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Yong Xia, Jingbo Wang, Sachiko Kuroyanagi, Wenming Yan, Yirong Wen, Agastya Kapur, Jing Zou, Yi Feng, Valentina Di Marco, Saurav Mishra, Christopher J. Russell, Shuangqiang Wang, De Zhao and Xingjiang Zhu
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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Since GWs are anticipated from cosmic strings, PTAs offer a viable approach to testing their existence. We present the results of the first Bayesian search for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string
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Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are designed to detect nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). Since GWs are anticipated from cosmic strings, PTAs offer a viable approach to testing their existence. We present the results of the first Bayesian search for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string cusps (GWCSs) using the third PPTA data release for 30 ms pulsars. In this data collection, we find no evidence for GWCS signals. We compare a model with a GWCS signal to one with only noise, including a common spatially uncorrelated red noise (CURN), and find that our data are more consistent with the noise-only model. We then establish upper limits on the strain amplitude of GWCSs at the pulsar term, based on the analysis of 30 ms pulsars, after finding no compelling evidence. We find the addition of a CURN with different spectral indices into the noise model has a negligible impact on the upper limits. And the upper limit range of the amplitude of the pulsar-term GWCSs is concentrated between
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. Finally, we set upper limits on the amplitude of GWCS events, parametrized by width and event epoch, for a single-pulsar PSR J1857 + 0943. Moreover, we derive the upper limit on the cosmic string tension as a function of burst width and compare it with previous results.
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