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The Gravitational-Wave Background Varied by Fiftyfold
Rare bright black-hole binaries make the expected anisotropy far less typical than its ensemble average.
Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-11-015
Summary
Rare bright black-hole binaries make the expected anisotropy far less typical than its ensemble average.
Monte Carlo source populations produced a 95 percent shot-noise amplitude interval spanning roughly a factor of 50 at fixed frequency. The median lay two to three times below the mean, complicating pulsar-timing forecasts.
Why it matters
Rare bright black-hole binaries make the expected anisotropy far less typical than its ensemble average.
Limits and context
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Key claims
Rare bright black-hole binaries make the expected anisotropy far less typical than its ensemble average.
Evidence: source-2026-08-11-017
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2608.09929arXiv · primary research
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