Hellings and Downs curve
The English word “Hellings and Downs curve” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.
Etymology
Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.
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