Gabriela Sato-Polito

Bridging the Population Synthesis of Supermassive Binary Black Holes and the Gravitational Wave Background

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) constrain population properties of supermassive binary black holes (SMBHBs) through the observation of the gravitational wave background (GWB). Unlike other approaches that interpolate population-synthesis libraries or only consider the mean of the strain spectrum, here we capture its full s...