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Has NANOGrav found first evidence for cosmic strings?

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arxiv 2009.06607 v3 pith:SVPUT7LR submitted 2020-09-14 astro-ph.CO gr-qchep-phhep-th

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The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process affecting the pulsar timing residuals in its 12.5-year data set. We demonstrate that this process admits an interpretation in terms of a stochastic gravitational-wave background emitted by a cosmic-string network in the early Universe. We study stable Nambu-Goto strings in dependence of their tension $G\mu$ and loop size $\alpha$ and show that the entire viable parameter space will be probed by an array of future experiments.

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