Robert D. Ferdman, Rutger van Haasteren, Cees G. Bassa, Marta Burgay, Ismael Cognard, Alessandro Corongiu, Nichi D'Amico, Gregory Desvignes, Jason W. T. Hessels, Gemma H. Janssen, Axel Jessner, Christine Jordan, Ramesh Karuppusamy, Evan F. Keane, Michael Kramer, Kosmas Lazaridis, Yuri Levin, Andrew G. Lyne, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Mark Purver, Ben Stappers, Sotirios Sanidas, Roy Smits, Gilles Theureau
Published 2010-03-17Version 1
The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a multi-institutional, multi-telescope collaboration, with the goal of using high-precision pulsar timing to directly detect gravitational waves. In this article we discuss the EPTA member telescopes, current achieved timing precision, and near-future goals. We report a preliminary upper limit to the amplitude of a gravitational wave background. We also discuss the Large European Array for Pulsars, in which the five major European telescopes involved in pulsar timing will be combined to provide a coherent array that will give similar sensitivity to the Arecibo radio telescope, and larger sky coverage.
Comments: 10 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, Amaldi 8 conference proceedings, accepted for publication by Classical & Quantum Gravity
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