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Z Arzoumanian, PT Baker, H Blumer, B Bécsy… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS

Searching for gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset.

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program AND Program Evaluation

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We search for a first-order phase transition gravitational wave signal in 45 pulsars from the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset. We find that the data can be modeled in terms of a strong first order phase transition taking place at temperatures below the electroweak scale. However, we do not observe any strong preference for a phase-transition interpretation of the signal over the standard astrophysical interpretation in terms of supermassive black hole mergers; but we expect to gain additional discriminating power with future datasets, improving the …

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