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Giant Army LLC: Seattle, WA, US

2021-03 to present | Science Writer & Community Advocate
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Brent Shapiro-Albert

Education and qualifications (2)

West Virginia University: Morgantown, WV, US

2016 to 2021 | Ph.D. (Physics and Astronomy)
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Brent Shapiro-Albert

Union College: Schenectady, NY, US

2012 to 2016 | Bachelor of Science (Physics and Astronomy)
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Works (29)

The NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Analysis Pipeline

2023 | Preprint
Contributors: Aaron D. Johnson; Patrick M. Meyers; Paul T. Baker; Neil J. Cornish; Jeffrey S. Hazboun; Tyson B. Littenberg; Joseph D. Romano; Stephen R. Taylor; Michele Vallisneri; Sarah J. Vigeland et al.
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Brent Shapiro-Albert

How to Detect an Astrophysical Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Background

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2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Bécsy, Bence; Cornish, Neil J.; Meyers, Patrick M.; Kelley, Luke Zoltan; Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Blecha, Laura et al.
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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background

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2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R.; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah et al.
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The NANOGrav 15-year data set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-Wave Background

arXiv e-prints
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baier, Jeremy; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R. et al.
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Comparing recent PTA results on the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background

arXiv e-prints
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: The International Pulsar Timing Array Collaboration; Agazie, G.; Antoniadis, J.; Anumarlapudi, A.; Archibald, A.~M.; Arumugam, P.; Arumugam, S.; Arzoumanian, Z.; Askew, J.; Babak, S. et al.
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Brent Shapiro-Albert

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background

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2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Bonilla, Alexander; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R.; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah et al.
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The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

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2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Blecha, Laura; Blumer, Harsha; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R.; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah; Bécsy, Bence; Casey-Clyde, J. Andrew; Charisi, Maria et al.
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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

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2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R.; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah et al.
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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background

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2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blecha, Laura; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R.; Burke-Spolaor, Sarah et al.
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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

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2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Agazie, Gabriella; Alam, Md Faisal; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Blecha, Laura; Bonidie, Victoria; Brazier, Adam; Brook, Paul R. et al.
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The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

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2023-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Afzal, Adeela; Agazie, Gabriella; Anumarlapudi, Akash; Archibald, Anne M.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Baker, Paul T.; Bécsy, Bence; Blanco-Pillado, Jose Juan; Blecha, Laura; Boddy, Kimberly K. et al.
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Searching for continuous Gravitational Waves in the second data release of the International Pulsar Timing Array

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2023-03-31 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
Contributors: Mikel Falxa; S Babak; P T Baker; B Bécsy; A Chalumeau; Siyuan Chen; Zu-Cheng Chen; N J Cornish; L Guillemot; Jeffrey Hazboun et al.
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An unusual pulse shape change event in PSR J1713+0747 observed with the Green Bank Telescope and CHIME

2022 | Preprint
Contributors: Ross J. Jennings; James M. Cordes; Shami Chatterjee; Maura A. McLaughlin; Paul B. Demorest; Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Paul R. Brook; Tyler Cohen et al.
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The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2022-01-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0035-8711
Part of ISSN: 1365-2966
Contributors: J Antoniadis; Z Arzoumanian; S Babak; M Bailes; Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen; P T Baker; C G Bassa; B Bécsy; A Berthereau; Matteo Bonetti et al.
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Searching for Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5-Year Dataset

Physical Review Letters
2021-12-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0031-9007
Part of ISSN: 1079-7114
Contributors: Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Bence Bécsy; Adam Brazier; Paul R. Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Maria Charisi; Shami Chatterjee; Siyuan Chen et al.
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The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search for Non-Einsteinian Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-wave Background

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021-12-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2041-8205
Part of ISSN: 2041-8213
Contributors: Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Bence Bécsy; Adam Brazier; Paul Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Maria Charisi; S. Chatterjee; Siyuan Chen et al.
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The NANOGrav 12.5 Year Data Set: Monitoring Interstellar Scattering Delays

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-08-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Jacob E. Turner; Maura A. McLaughlin; James M. Cordes; Michael T. Lam; Brent J. Shapiro-Albert; Daniel R. Stinebring; Zaven Arzoumanian; Harsha Blumer; Paul R. Brook; Shami Chatterjee et al.
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Refined Mass and Geometric Measurements of the High-mass PSR J0740+6620

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021-07-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-8205
Part of ISSN: 2041-8213
Contributors: Emmanuel Fonseca; H. Thankful Cromartie; Timothy Pennucci; Paul S. Ray; Aida Kirichenko; Scott Ransom; Paul Demorest; Ingrid Stairs; Z. Arzoumanian; Lucas Guillemot et al.
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The NANOGrav 11 yr Data Set: Limits on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Galaxies within 500 Mpc

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-06-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 0004-637X
Part of ISSN: 1538-4357
Contributors: Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Adam Brazier; Paul Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Bence Bécsy; Maria Charisi; S. Chatterjee; James Cordes; Neil Cornish et al.
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Astrophysics Milestones for Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational-wave Detection

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2021-04-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-8205
Part of ISSN: 2041-8213
Contributors: Nihan Pol; Stephen Taylor; Luke Zoltan Kelley; Sarah Vigeland; Joseph Simon; Siyuan Chen; Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Bence Bécsy; Adam Brazier et al.
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A Study in Frequency-dependent Effects on Precision Pulsar Timing Parameters with the Pulsar Signal Simulator

The Astrophysical Journal
2021-03-01 | Journal article
Contributors: B. J. Shapiro-Albert; J. S. Hazboun; M. A. McLaughlin; M. T. Lam
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The Pulsar Signal Simulator: A Python package for simulating radio signal data from pulsars

Journal of Open Source Software
2021-02-14 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2475-9066
Contributors: Jeffrey Hazboun; Brent Shapiro-Albert; Paul T. Baker; Amelia Henkel; Cassidy Wagner; Jacob Hesse; Paul Brook; Michael Timothy Lam; Maura McLaughlin; Nathaniel Garver-Daniels
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The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Observations and Narrowband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
2020-12-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1538-4365
Contributors: Md Faisal Alam; Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Keith E. Bohler; Adam Brazier; Paul Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Keeisi Caballero; Richard S. Camuccio et al.
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The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Wideband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
2020-12-21 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1538-4365
Contributors: Md Faisal Alam; Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Keith E. Bohler; Adam Brazier; William Fiore; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Keeisi Caballero; Richard S. Camuccio et al.
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The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-12-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-8205
Part of ISSN: 2041-8213
Contributors: Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Harsha Blumer; Bence Bécsy; Adam Brazier; Paul Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; S. Chatterjee; Siyuan Chen; James Cordes et al.
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Multimessenger Gravitational-wave Searches with Pulsar Timing Arrays: Application to 3C 66B Using the NANOGrav 11-year Data Set

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-09-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 0004-637X
Part of ISSN: 1538-4357
Contributors: Zaven Arzoumanian; Paul T. Baker; Adam Brazier; Paul Brook; Sarah Burke-Spolaor; Bence Bécsy; Maria Charisi; S. Chatterjee; James Cordes; Neil Cornish et al.
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Analysis of Multi-hour Continuous Observations of Seven Millisecond Pulsars

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-02-20 | Journal article
Contributors: B. J. Shapiro-Albert; M. A. McLaughlin; M. T. Lam; J. M. Cordes; J. K. Swiggum
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Results for the International Pulsar Timing Array Second Mock Data Challenge: New Techniques and Challenges for the Detection of Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Signals

2019 | Preprint
Contributors: P. T. Baker; P. R. Brook; W. C. Fiore; N. Garver-Daniels; A. R. Kaiser; M. T. Lam; B. J. Shapiro-Albert; C. A. Witt
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Radio Properties of Rotating Radio Transients: Single-pulse Spectral and Wait-time Analyses

The Astrophysical Journal
2018-10-20 | Journal article
Contributors: B. J. Shapiro-Albert; M. A. McLaughlin; E. F. Keane
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