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The Hellings-Down (HD) function describes gravitational-wave (GW) induced correlations in pulse arrival times from pulsar populations. The author presents a thorough analytical treatment of the HD variance, demonstrating how cosmological vs. pulsar effects can be separated, and how variance measurements can provide unique insight on the GW sources themselves.
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