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// Publications split into:
// (1) PUBS_LED — Pol led the work or made a significant contribution
// (2) PUBS_COLL — other papers with smaller contributions / collaboration papers
// Data from user-supplied BibTeX (ADS export).
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role: 'Assistant Professor of Astrophysics',
institution: 'Texas Tech University',
office: 'Room 017, Science Building',
city: 'Lubbock, TX 79409',
email: 'npol@ttu.edu',
phone: null,
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{ date: 'Jan 23, 2026', html: 'Postdoctoral scholar in the group gives an overview of his paper in this video.' },
{ date: 'Nov 2025', html: 'Group members all give talk and poster presentations at the NANOGrav Fall 2025 meeting.' },
{ date: 'Sep 1, 2024', html: 'Started a position as Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX.' },
{ date: 'Dec 31, 2023', html: 'Our NANOGrav 15 yr results highlighted as among the top scientific breakthroughs of the year by many outlets: NSF, APS, Science, National Geographic, Quanta Magazine (and its companion video), Bloomberg, BBC Science Focus, and Dr. Becky (at #1).' },
{ date: 'Oct 15, 2023', html: 'Started a NANOGrav postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon State University.' },
{ date: 'Sep 1, 2023', html: 'Started a position as visiting scientist at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.' },
{ date: 'Aug 4, 2023', html: 'Interview with Scientific American talking about the latest NANOGrav results and the search for anisotropy is now published.' },
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// ─── (1) Papers led by Pol or with significant contribution ─────────────────
// Ordered newest-first. `authors` uses short form; full list collapsed for NANOGrav.
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year: 2025,
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs I: Model efficacy",
authors: ["L. Schult", "P. Petrov", "S. R. Taylor", "N. Pol", "N. Laal", "M. Charisi", "C. Ma"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
arxiv: "2510.01317", ads: "2025arXiv251001317S",
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Expectations for the first supermassive black-hole binary resolved by PTAs II: Milestones for binary characterization",
authors: ["P. Petrov", "L. Schult", "S. R. Taylor", "N. Pol", "N. Laal", "M. Charisi", "C. Ma"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
arxiv: "2510.01316", ads: "2025arXiv251001316P",
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Mapping the Gravitational-wave Background Across the Spectrum with a Next-Generation Anisotropic Per-frequency Optimal Statistic",
authors: ["K. A. Gersbach", "S. R. Taylor", "B. Bécsy", "A. Lemke", "A. Mitridate", "N. Pol"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
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year: 2024,
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venue: "PASA",
title: "First detection of X-ray pulsations and spectrum of the high Galactic latitude pulsar PSR J0837─2454 and direct Urca cooling implications",
authors: ["W. C. G. Ho", "N. Pol", "A. T. Deller", "W. Becker", "S. Burke-Spolaor"],
venueName: "Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, e066",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Comparing Recent Pulsar Timing Array Results on the Nanohertz Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background",
authors: ["G. Agazie", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 966, 105",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Anisotropy in the Gravitational-wave Background",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 956, L3",
arxiv: "2306.16221", doi: "10.3847/2041-8213/acf4fd", ads: "2023ApJ...956L...3A",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 951, L8",
arxiv: "2306.16213", doi: "10.3847/2041-8213/acdac6", ads: "2023ApJ...951L...8A",
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venue: "ApJL",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 951, L9",
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venue: "Article",
title: "Extending the reach of pulsar timing arrays to micro-hertz GW frequencies",
authors: ["N. Pol", "S. Taylor", "D. Blas", "A. Jenkins", "A. Parthasarthy", "M. Kramer"],
venueName: "2023, P01.043",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Forecasting Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity to Anisotropy in the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 940, 173",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Disentangling Multiple Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Sources in PTA Data Sets",
authors: ["A. R. Kaiser", "N. S. Pol", "M. A. McLaughlin", "S. Chen", "J. S. Hazboun", "L. Z. Kelley", "J. Simon", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 938, 115",
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venue: "PRD",
title: "A parallelized Bayesian approach to accelerated gravitational-wave background characterization",
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venueName: "Physical Review D, 105, 084049",
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venue: "MNRAS",
title: "The International Pulsar Timing Array second data release: Search for an isotropic gravitational wave background",
authors: ["J. Antoniadis", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510, 4873-4887",
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year: 2021,
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venue: "Physical Rev",
title: "Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar",
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venueName: "Physical Review X, 11, 041050",
arxiv: "2112.06795", doi: "10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041050", ads: "2021PhRvX..11d1050K",
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Insights into the Milky Way pulsar--black hole population using radio and gravitational wave observations",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. McLaughlin", "D. Lorimer"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
arxiv: "2109.04512", ads: "2021arXiv210904512P",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "On the Detectability of Ultracompact Binary Pulsar Systems",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. McLaughlin", "D. R. Lorimer", "N. Garver-Daniels"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 912, 22",
arxiv: "2010.04151", doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/abe9b7", ads: "2021ApJ...912...22P",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "The Location of Young Pulsar PSR J0837-2454: Galactic Halo or Local Supernova Remnant?",
authors: ["N. Pol", "S. Burke-Spolaor", "N. Hurley-Walker", "H. Blumer", "S. Johnston", "M. Keith", "E. F. Keane", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 911, 121",
arxiv: "2104.11680", doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/abe70d", ads: "2021ApJ...911..121P",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "Astrophysics Milestones for Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational-wave Detection",
authors: ["N. S. Pol", "S. R. Taylor", "L. Z. Kelley", "S. J. Vigeland", "J. Simon", "S. Chen", "Z. Arzoumanian", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 911, L34",
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venue: "ApJS",
title: "The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Observations and Narrowband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars",
authors: ["M. F. Alam", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 252, 4",
arxiv: "2005.06490", doi: "10.3847/1538-4365/abc6a0", ads: "2021ApJS..252....4A",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 905, L34",
arxiv: "2009.04496", doi: "10.3847/2041-8213/abd401", ads: "2020ApJ...905L..34A",
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Modeling the Galactic Compact Binary Neutron Star Population and Studying the Double Pulsar System",
authors: ["N. Pol"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
arxiv: "2008.03842", ads: "2020arXiv200803842P",
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venue: "Nature",
title: "Asymmetric mass ratios for bright double neutron-star mergers",
authors: ["R. D. Ferdman", "P. C. C. Freire", "B. B. P. Perera", "N. Pol", "F. Camilo", "S. Chatterjee", "J. M. Cordes", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. Pol"],
venueName: "Nature, 583, 211-214",
arxiv: "2007.04175", doi: "10.1038/s41586-020-2439-x", ads: "2020Natur.583..211F",
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venue: "RNAAS",
title: "An Updated Galactic Double Neutron Star Merger Rate Based on Radio Pulsar Populations",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. McLaughlin", "D. R. Lorimer"],
venueName: "American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts",
arxiv: "2002.10225", doi: "10.3847/2515-5172/ab7307", ads: "2020RNAAS...4...22P",
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venue: "PhD",
title: "Modeling the galactic compact binary neutron star population and studying the double pulsar system",
authors: ["N. Pol"],
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year: 2019,
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Estimates of Fast Radio Burst Dispersion Measures from Cosmological Simulations",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. T. Lam", "M. A. McLaughlin", "T. J. W. Lazio", "J. M. Cordes"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 886, 135",
arxiv: "1903.07630", doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/ab4c2f", ads: "2019ApJ...886..135P",
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title: "Radio Pulsar Populations",
authors: ["D. Lorimer", "N. Pol", "K. Rajwade", "K. Aggarwal", "D. Agarwal", "J. Strader", "N. Lewandowska", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. Pol"],
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Erratum: \"Future Prospects for Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors: The Galactic Double Neutron Star Merger Rate Revisited\" (2019, ApJ, 870, 71)",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. McLaughlin", "D. R. Lorimer"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 874, 186",
doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/ab0c22", ads: "2019ApJ...874..186P",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "Constraints on the H I Mass for NGC 1052-DF2",
authors: ["A. Sardone", "D. J. Pisano", "S. Burke-Spolaor", "J. L. Mascoop", "N. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 871, L31",
arxiv: "1901.07586", doi: "10.3847/2041-8213/ab0084", ads: "2019ApJ...871L..31S",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Future Prospects for Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors: The Galactic Double Neutron Star Merger Rate Revisited",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 870, 71",
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venue: "arXiv",
title: "Binary neutron star formation and the origin of GW170817",
authors: ["K. Belczynski", "T. Bulik", "A. Olejak", "M. Chruslinska", "N. Singh", "N. Pol", "L. Zdunik", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. Pol"],
venueName: "arXiv e-prints",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing Constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background",
authors: ["Z. Arzoumanian", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 859, 47",
arxiv: "1801.02617", doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/aabd3b", ads: "2018ApJ...859...47A",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "PALFA Discovery of a Highly Relativistic Double Neutron Star Binary",
authors: ["K. Stovall", "P. C. C. Freire", "S. Chatterjee", "P. B. Demorest", "D. R. Lorimer", "M. A. McLaughlin", "N. Pol", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 854, L22",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "A Direct Measurement of Sense of Rotation of PSR J0737-3039A",
authors: ["N. Pol", "M. McLaughlin", "M. Kramer", "I. Stairs", "B. B. P. Perera", "A. Possenti"],
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venue: "MNRAS",
title: "Seyfert 1 composite spectrum using SDSS Legacy survey data",
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venueName: "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 465, 95-104",
arxiv: "1610.07523", doi: "10.1093/mnras/stw2763", ads: "2017MNRAS.465...95P",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Improved Timing Precision with Very Long Baseline Interferometry Astrometric Priors",
authors: ["S. V. Sosa Fiscella", "+ NANOGrav Collaboration incl. N. S. Pol"],
venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal, 999, 156",
arxiv: "2509.21203", doi: "10.3847/1538-4357/ae39c9", ads: "2026ApJ...999..156S",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems",
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venue: "ApJL",
title: "The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Targeted Searches for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries",
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venueName: "The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 998, L11",
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venue: "NatAs",
title: "Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Inferring M$_BH$─M$_bulge$ Evolution from the Gravitational-wave Background",
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venue: "ApJ",
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title: "The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: A Case Study for Simplified Dispersion Measure Modeling for PSR J1455-3330 and the Impact on Gravitational Wave Sensitivity",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "Pulse Profile Variability of PSR J1022+1001 in NANOGrav Data",
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title: "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Harmonic Analysis of the Pulsar Angular Correlations",
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venue: "ApJ",
title: "The Anomalous Acceleration of PSR J2043+1711: Long-period Orbital Companion or Stellar Flyby?",
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