Stephen R. Taylor

Publications

Selected papers on pulsar timing arrays, supermassive black-hole binaries, LISA, and gravitational-wave cosmology. The complete record is on Google Scholar and NASA ADS.

Citations
20,500+
h-index
61
i10-index
114

Google Scholar, November 2026

Google Scholar NASA ADS Full list (CV, PDF)

Selected publications

NANOGrav collaboration papers list authors alphabetically; my role is noted where relevant.

  1. The dawn of gravitational wave astronomy at light-year wavelengths: insights from pulsar timing arrays

    S. R. Taylor

    Astrophysics and Space Science 370, 124 2025ReviewDOIarXiv:2511.08966

  2. The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: evidence for a gravitational-wave background

    NANOGrav Collaboration: G. Agazie, A. Anumarlapudi, A. M. Archibald, et al. (incl. S. R. Taylor)

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 951, L8 2023Co-lead authorDOIarXiv:2306.16213

  3. The NANOGrav 15 yr data set: constraints on supermassive black hole binaries from the gravitational-wave background

    NANOGrav Collaboration: G. Agazie, A. Anumarlapudi, A. M. Archibald, et al. (incl. S. R. Taylor)

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 952, L37 2023DOIarXiv:2306.16220

  4. Astrophysics milestones for pulsar timing array gravitational-wave detection

    N. S. Pol, S. R. Taylor, L. Z. Kelley, S. J. Vigeland, J. Simon, S. Chen, et al.

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 911, L34 2021DOIarXiv:2010.11950

  5. The NANOGrav 12.5 yr data set: search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

    NANOGrav Collaboration: Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker, H. Blumer, et al. (incl. S. R. Taylor)

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 905, L34 2020Chair, detection working groupDOIarXiv:2009.04496

  6. The astrophysics of nanohertz gravitational waves

    S. Burke-Spolaor, S. R. Taylor, M. Charisi, T. Dolch, J. S. Hazboun, et al.

    Astronomy and Astrophysics Review 27, 5 2019Co-lead author · ReviewDOIarXiv:1811.08826

  7. The local nanohertz gravitational-wave landscape from supermassive black hole binaries

    C. M. F. Mingarelli, T. J. W. Lazio, A. Sesana, J. E. Greene, J. A. Ellis, C.-P. Ma, S. Croft, S. Burke-Spolaor, S. R. Taylor

    Nature Astronomy 1, 886 2017DOIarXiv:1708.03491

  8. Are we there yet? Time to detection of nanohertz gravitational waves based on pulsar-timing array limits

    S. R. Taylor, M. Vallisneri, J. A. Ellis, C. M. F. Mingarelli, T. J. W. Lazio, R. van Haasteren

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters 819, L6 2016DOIarXiv:1511.05564

  9. European Pulsar Timing Array limits on an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background

    L. Lentati, S. R. Taylor, C. M. F. Mingarelli, et al.

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 453, 2576 2015Core analysis teamDOIarXiv:1504.03692

  10. Limits on anisotropy in the nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave background

    S. R. Taylor, C. M. F. Mingarelli, J. R. Gair, A. Sesana, G. Theureau, S. Babak, et al.

    Physical Review Letters 115, 041101 2015DOIarXiv:1506.08817

  11. Cosmology with the lights off: standard sirens in the Einstein Telescope era

    S. R. Taylor, J. R. Gair

    Physical Review D 86, 023502 2012DOIarXiv:1204.6739

  12. Cosmology using advanced gravitational-wave detectors alone

    S. R. Taylor, J. R. Gair, I. Mandel

    Physical Review D 85, 023535 2012DOIarXiv:1108.5161

Book

Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy S. R. Taylor · CRC Press / Routledge, November 2021 · 172 pp · ISBN 9780367768621

A comprehensive treatment of pulsar-timing-array searches for low-frequency gravitational waves, covering the derivation of the pulsar-timing response, source astrophysics, and Bayesian data-analysis techniques. Used in graduate courses worldwide.