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Using public pulse time-of-arrival data from five pulsar timing arrays (PTAs), we search for a stationary, isotropic, and unpolarized nHz stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). This analysis is more sensitive than previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Wang-Wei Yu , Bruce Allen

We address the issue of finding an optimal detection method for a discontinuous or intermittent gravitational wave stochastic background. Such a signal might sound something like popcorn popping. We derive an appropriate version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to extract the information contained in this background and to…

Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the feasibility of using a network of lunar seismometers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lijing Shao , Mengyao Wang

The prospect of detecting relic gravitational waves (RGWs), through their imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation, provides an excellent opportunity to study the very early Universe. In simplest viable theoretical models the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Zhao , D. Baskaran

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

A likely source of a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the frequency band of the Advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors is the superposition of signals from the population of unresolvable stellar-mass binary-black-hole (BBH) mergers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Jessica Lawrence , Kevin Turbang , Andrew Matas , Arianna I. Renzini , Nick van Remortel , Joseph D. Romano

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

Finding a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) of astrophysical or primordial origin is one of the quests of current and future gravitational-wave observatories. While detector networks such as LIGO-Virgo-Kagra or pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

The nearby universe is expected to create an anisotropic stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Different algorithms have been developed and implemented to search for isotropic and anisotropic SGWB. The aim of this paper is to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-07 Nairwita Mazumder , Sanjit Mitra , Sanjeev Dhurandhar

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) offers a new opportunity to observe signals of primordial features from inflationary models. We study their detectability with future space-based gravitational waves experiments, focusing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Matteo Braglia , Xingang Chen , Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

We investigate the capabilities of space-based gravitational-wave detector networks, specifically Taiji and LISA, to measure the anisotropies in stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), which are characterized by the angular power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang

Using a semi-parametric approach based on the fourth-order Edgeworth expansion for the unknown signal distribution, we derive an explicit expression for the likelihood detection statistic in the presence of non-normally distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lionel Martellini , Tania Regimbau

Multi-band gravitational-wave (GW) standard siren observations are poised to herald a new era in the study of cosmic evolution. These observations offer higher signal-to-noise ratios and improved localizations compared to those achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Yue-Yan Dong , Ji-Yu Song , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We propose a data processing technique that allows searches for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation with data from a single detector. Our technique exploits the difference between the coherence time of the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-22 Massimo Tinto , J. W. Armstrong

Unresolved sources of gravitational waves can create a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) which may have intrinsic or extrinsic anisotropies. The angular power spectrum is a well-suited estimator for characterizing diffuse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra , Anirban Ain

Astrometry holds the potential for testing fundamental physics through the effects of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in the $\sim 1-100$ nHz frequency band on precision measurements of stellar positions. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden , Sam S. C. Wong

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) with The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is among the mission science objectives. Disentangling SGWBs of astrophysical and cosmological origin is a challenging task,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 Federico Pozzoli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Christopher J. Moore , Francesco Haardt , Alberto Sesana

We make forecasts for the impact a future "midband" space-based gravitational wave experiment, most sensitive to $10^{-2}- 10$ Hz, could have on potential detections of cosmological stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Barry C. Barish , Simeon Bird , Yanou Cui

The Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) search algorithm identifies generic gravitational wave (GW) signals in the LIGO-Virgo strain data. We propose a machine learning (ML) method to optimize the pipeline sensitivity to the special class of GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Tanmaya Mishra , Brendan O'Brien , V. Gayathri , Marek Szczepanczyk , Shubhagata Bhaumik , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko