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We investigate the production of gravitational waves during the inspiral of compact binaries close to their merger in the context of a conformal gravity model. The model incorporates five massive polarization degrees of freedom, besides the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Patric Hölscher , Dominik J. Schwarz

Close hyperbolic encounters of black holes (BHs) generate certain Burst With Memory (BWM) events in the frequency windows of the operational, planned, and proposed gravitational wave (GW) observatories. We present detailed explorations of…

The new tools of gravitational wave and multi-messenger astronomy allow for the study of astrophysical phenomenon in new ways and enables light to be shed on some of the longest-enduring mysteries of high-energy astrophysics. Among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Kayla Bartel , Stefano Profumo

In order to investigate the formation rate of binary black holes (BBHs) in stellar clusters with a mass comparable to open clusters, we performed a series of direct $N$-body simulations of open clusters with a mass of $2.5\times10^3$ (Model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Jun Kumamoto , Michiko S. Fujii , Ataru Tanikawa

The measurement of gravitational waves produced by binary black-hole mergers at the Advanced LIGO has encouraged extensive studies on the stochastic gravitational wave background. Recent studies have focused on gravitational wave sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-18 Wenfeng Cui , Fei Huang , Jing Shu , Yue Zhao

These lectures aim at providing an introduction to the properties of gravitational waves and in particular to those gravitational waves that are expected as a consequence of perturbations of black holes and neutron stars. Imprinted in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-16 Luciano Rezzolla

Recent pulsar timing data reported by the NANOGrav collaboration may indicate the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background around $f \sim 10^{-8}$ Hz. We explore a possibility to generate such low-frequency gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Yuichiro Nakai , Motoo Suzuki , Fuminobu Takahashi , Masaki Yamada

Gravitational-wave detectors on earth have detected gravitational waves from merging compact objects in the local Universe. In future we will detect gravitational waves from higher-redshift sources, which trace the high-redshift structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Tomohiro Nakama

The origin of the black-hole:black-hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves with for example the LIGO/Virgo collaboration are a mystery. We investigate the idea that some of these black holes originate from the centers of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-12 Christopher J. Conselice , Rachana Bhatawdekar , Antonella Palmese , William G. Hartley

We present the first search for gravitational waves from sub-solar mass compact-binary mergers which allows for non-negligible orbital eccentricity. Sub-solar mass black holes are a signature of primordial origin black holes, which may be a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Alexander H. Nitz , Yi-Fan Wang

We study the stochastic background of gravitational waves which accompany the sudden freeze-out of dark matter triggered by a cosmological first order phase transition that endows dark matter with mass. We consider models that produce the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Danny Marfatia , Po-Yan Tseng

One of the most promising ways of detecting primordial gravitational waves generated during inflation is to observe B-modes of polarization, generated by Thomson scattering after reionization, in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Scott Dodelson

The gravitational waves emitted by massive black hole binaries can be affected by a variety of environmental effects, which, if detected, could inform astrophysics and cosmology. We here study how gravitational waves emitted by black holes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir , Nicolás Yunes

We show that gravitational waves have the potential to unravel the microphysical properties of dark matter due to the dependence of the binary black hole merger rate on cosmic structure formation, which is itself highly dependent on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Markus R. Mosbech , Alexander C. Jenkins , Sownak Bose , Celine Boehm , Mairi Sakellariadou , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Our aim in this work is to outline some physical consequences of the interaction between black holes and scalar field halos in terms of gravitational waves. In doing so, the black hole is taken as a static and spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-06 Darío Núnez , Juan Carlos Degollado , Claudia Moreno

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

We discuss the gravitational wave background (GWB) from a cosmological population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Among various emission mechanisms for the gravitational waves (GWs), we pay a particular attention to the vast anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Hiramatsu , Kei Kotake , Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational waves deliver information in exquisite detail about astrophysical phenomena, among them the collision of two black holes, a system completely invisible to the eyes of electromagnetic telescopes. Models that predict…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Deirdre Shoemaker , Karan Jani , Lionel London , Larne Pekowsky

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are unavoidable outcomes of the hierarchical structure formation process, and according to the theory of general relativity are expected to be the loudest gravitational wave (GW) sources in the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sesana

We calculate the expected nHz--$\mu$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew H. Jaffe , Donald C. Backer