The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

Author affiliations

¹ Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia

² Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, H3A 2T8, Canada

³ CRESST/USRA, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

⁴ Astronomy Department and Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA

⁵ Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia

⁶ Università di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Fisica, SP Monserrato-Sestu km 0.7, 09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy

⁷ Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf Dem Hügel 69, 53121, Bonn, Germany

⁸ Station de Radioastronomie de Nanay, Observatoire de Paris, 18330 Nançay, France

⁹ Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

¹⁰ Astronomy Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

¹¹ National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

¹² Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

¹³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

¹⁴ Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

¹⁵ Department of Imaging and Applied Physics, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

¹⁶ Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

¹⁷ Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Texas at Brownsville, 80 Fort Brown, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA

¹⁸ Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA

¹⁹ Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA

²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Peking University, 5 Haidian Lu, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China

²¹ Leiden University, Leiden Observatory, PO Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

²² Franklin and Marshall College, 415 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster, PA 17604, USA

²³ Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904Ð4325, USA

²⁴ Physics Department, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA

²⁵ Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, PO Box 413, WI 53201, USA

²⁶ Physics and Astronomy Dept., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, USA

²⁷ Sydney Institute for Astronomy, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia

²⁸ School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest University, 2 Tiansheng Road, Chongqing 400715, People's Republic of China