Equivalence of mapping gravitational wave background anisotropy across bases at equal information content

arXiv:2608.05200 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Deepali Agarwal

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.CO, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Anisotropy — 31× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• pulsar timing arrays — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fisher Information — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pairwise Timing Response — 3× in this paper
• Inverse Problem — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Basis-independent Maximum Likelihood — 1× in this paper
• Fisher matrix formalism — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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