Hellings and Downs curve

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Hellings and Downs curve

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Etymology Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.

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Astronomy, Natural sciences 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.

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