Gravitational Wave Detection with Pulsars: the NANOGrav collaboration – Dan Stinebring
Date: Tue. April 24th, 2012, 11:30 am-12:30 pmLocation: Rockefeller 221
The effort to detect long-wavelength gravitational waves with a pulsar timing array (PTA) is progressing well, with three major international groups intensifying their efforts and increasingly sharing data and techniques. *Your* PTA, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) is making excellent progress. I will report on our recent results and also comment on my group’s specialty, the effort to remove time variable propagation delays through the ionized interstellar medium.