Associating Host Galaxy Candidates to Massive Black Hole Binaries resolved by Pulsar Timing Arrays

We propose a novel methodology to select host galaxy candidates of future pulsar timing array (PTA) detections of resolved gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole binaries (MBHBs). The method exploits the physical dependence of the GW amplitude on the MBHB chirp mass and distance to the ob...

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Dependence
Galaxies
Gravitational waves
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Red shift
Space telescopes
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