{
  "id": "1005.1667",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-05-10T20:26:03.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-08-26T02:17:38.000Z",
  "title": "The Sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to Individual Sources of Gravitational Waves",
  "authors": [
    "D. R. B. Yardley",
    "G. B. Hobbs",
    "F. A. Jenet",
    "J. P. W. Verbiest",
    "Z. L. Wen",
    "R. N. Manchester",
    "W. A. Coles",
    "W. van Straten",
    "M. Bailes",
    "N. D. R. Bhat",
    "S. Burke-Spolaor",
    "D. J. Champion",
    "A. W. Hotan",
    "J. M. Sarkissian"
  ],
  "comment": "fixed error in equation (4). [13 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, published in MNRAS]",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "astro-ph.CO",
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present the sensitivity of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array to gravitational waves emitted by individual super-massive black-hole binary systems in the early phases of coalescing at the cores of merged galaxies. Our analysis includes a detailed study of the effects of fitting a pulsar timing model to non-white timing residuals. Pulsar timing is sensitive at nanoHertz frequencies and hence complementary to LIGO and LISA. We place a sky-averaged constraint on the merger rate of nearby ($z < 0.6$) black-hole binaries in the early phases of coalescence with a chirp mass of $10^{10}\\,\\rmn{M}_\\odot$ of less than one merger every seven years. The prospects for future gravitational-wave astronomy of this type with the proposed Square Kilometre Array telescope are discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-08-26T02:17:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "parkes pulsar timing array",
      "gravitational waves",
      "individual sources",
      "sensitivity",
      "square kilometre array telescope"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16949.x",
      "journal": "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 407,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 669
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 854820,
      "adsabs": "2010MNRAS.407..669Y"
    }
  }
}