Paul T. Baker

About

Physicist working on gravitational wave detection and data analysis.

Employment

• Widener University Associate Professor
  2025 - Present
• Widener University Assistant Professor
  2019 - 2025
• West Virginia University Postdoctoral Fellow
  2016 - 2019
• SUNY Geneseo Visiting Assistant Professor
  2013 - 2016

Education

• Montana State University Ph.D.
  ? - 2013
• Montana State University Bozeman M.S.
  ? - 2008
• Reed College B.A.
  ? - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (78)

• Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity to Anisotropy: Empirical Sensitivity Curves, Scaling Relations, and the Multi-resolution Pixel Basis
  Taha T. Moursy, Nihan S. Pol, Gabriella Agazie +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9759
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• Erratum: “The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background” (2023, ApJL, 952, L37)
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae8764
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• Gravitational-wave Measurement of the M BH–M bulge Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift
  Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae801e
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr and 20 yr Datasets: Timing Events and Pulse Shape Changes
  Ben Jacobson-Bell, J. M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee +61 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6db6
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Piecewise Power-law Reconstruction of the Gravitational-wave Background
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae7086
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: A Case Study for Simplified Dispersion Measure Modeling for PSR J1455−3330 and the Impact on Gravitational Wave Sensitivity
  Michael T. Lam, David L. Kaplan, Gabriella Agazie +47 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae6c1c
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• The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Dataset: Chromatic Noise Characterization and Mitigation with Time-domain Kernels
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae4ee0
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Improved Timing Precision with Very Long Baseline Interferometry Astrometric Priors
  Sophia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie +47 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae39c9
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Targeted Searches for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
  Nikita Agarwal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2026 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae3719
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Search for Gravitational Scattering of Pulsars by Free-floating Objects in Interstellar Space
  Lankeswar Dey, Ross J. Jennings, Jackson D. Taylor +48 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2026 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae279d
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• Rapid construction of joint pulsar timing array data sets: the Lite method
  B Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, P. T. Baker

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  • Jeffrey S. Hazboun
  • Siyuan Chen
  • Levi Schult
  • S R Taylor
  • Joseph Simon
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  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf1420
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Gravitational-wave Memory
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/add874
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Harmonic Analysis of the Pulsar Angular Correlations
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc997
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• Pulse Profile Variability of PSR J1022+1001 in NANOGrav Data
  William Fiore, M. A. McLaughlin, Gabriella Agazie +46 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adc255
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr dataset: Posterior predictive checks for gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays
  Physical Review D 2025 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.042011
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Running of the Spectral Index
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2025 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad99d3
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• The NANOGrav 15 Yr Data Set: Removing Pulsars One by One from the Pulsar Timing Array
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad93aa
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• The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Looking for Signs of Discreteness in the Gravitational-wave Background
  Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal 2025 DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad93d5
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• Erratum: “The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics” (2023, ApJL 951 L11)
  Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +97 more
  The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2024 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad68fc
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• Efficient prescription to search for linear gravitational wave memory from hyperbolic black hole encounters and its application to the NANOGrav 12.5-year dataset
  Subhajit Dandapat, Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Lankeswar Dey +3 more
  Physical Review D 2024 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.103018
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