SKAO Pulsar Program to Unify Nano-Hz Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter Searches and Strong-Field Gravity Tests
SKAO pulsar science integrates gravitational-wave detection, dark-matter searches and gravity tests through thousands of new discoveries. The facility's decade-scale programme offers synergies missed by funding narratives focused on early operations. Evidence rests on a 2026 technical overview rather than completed observations.
Commissioning data expected from 2029 onward will first validate sensitivity models; full science operations by 2032 should yield the first statistically robust nano-Hz gravitational-wave detection and place competitive limits on axion-like dark matter if timing precision meets design specifications.
SKAO timing array: first 3-sigma nano-Hz gravitational-wave background detection by 2035 if 2000 new millisecond pulsars are timed to 100 ns rms
Sources (3)
- [1]Primary Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01288)
- [2]Supporting Source(https://www.skao.int/en/science-goals/125/pulsars)
- [3]Supporting Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.09583)