Word.ws English Dictionary

Hellings-Downs curve

Hellings-Downs curve is the alternative form of Hellings and Downs curve.

Meaning of Hellings and Downs curve

Noun

Hellings and Downs curve (plural Hellings and Downs curves)

  1. 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.

Forms of Hellings-Downs curve

pluralHellings-Downs curves

Questions about Hellings-Downs curve

What is Hellings-Downs curve the alternative form of?
Hellings-Downs curve is the alternative form of Hellings and Downs curve.

Words near Hellings-Downs curve in the dictionary

  1. Hellingers
  2. Hellingly
  3. Hellings
  4. Hellings and Downs curve
  5. Hellings and Downs curves
  6. Hellings-Downs curve
  7. hellion
  8. hellions
  9. hellish
  10. hellishly
  11. hellishness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hellings-Downs curve (page history and authors); Hellings and Downs curve (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hellings-Downs curve.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hellings-downs_curve. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.