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It is shown that coupling system between fractal membranes and a Gaussian beam passing through a static magnetic field has strong selection capability for the stochastic relic gravitational wave background. The relic GW components…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Fangyu Li , Zhenya Chen , Ying Yi

Gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a long-standing prediction of the standard cosmolgical model, is ultimately expected to be an important source of cosmological information, but first detection has not been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Kendrick M. Smith , Oliver Zahn , Olivier Dore

The next generation of gravitational wave detectors holds out the prospect of detecting a stochastic gravitational background generated in the very early universe. In this article, we review the various cosmological processes which can lead…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

We derive a general procedure for calculating the gravitational wave background (GWB) from cosmic string loops whose typical shape evolves over time, as in gravitational backreaction. Using the results of a large-scale study of numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Jeremy M. Wachter , Ken D. Olum , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado

Gravitational waves (GW) can constitute a unique probe of the primordial universe. In many cases, the characteristic frequency of the emitted GW is directly related to the energy scale at which the GW source is operating in the early…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Chiara Caprini

Non-linear growth of structure causes the gravitational potentials to grow with time, and this leaves an imprint on the small-scale temperature fluctuations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), a signal known as the Rees-Sciama (RS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-23 Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan , Elena Pierpaoli

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

The next generation low-frequency radio telescopes may probe cosmological models by means of observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). I discuss the prospects for observations of CMB imprints - recombination lines from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Subrahmanyan

An enormous amount of observations on Cosmic Microwave Background radiation has been collected in the last decade, and much more data are expected in the near future from planned or operating satellite missions. These datasets are a…

Applications · Statistics 2009-05-15 Paolo Cabella , Domenico Marinucci

We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by a network of cosmic strings and assess their accessibility to current and planned gravitational wave detectors, as well as to big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Siemens , Vuk Mandic , Jolien Creighton

Gravitational waves (GWs) are regarded as standard sirens for Cosmology. GWs from compact binary coalescence (CBC) can directly determine the luminosity distance but usually can not obtain information about the redshift. However, if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Ye Jiang , Wen-Biao Han

The interplay between different ground based detectors and stochastic backgrounds of relic GW is described. A simultaneous detection of GW in the kHz and in the MHz--GHz region can point towards a cosmological nature of the signal. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Massimo Giovannini

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

The stochastic cosmological gravitational-wave background (CGWB) provides a direct window to study early universe phenomena and fundamental physics. With the proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors, Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Ashish Sharma , Jan Harms

General Relativity provides us with an extremely powerful tool to extract at the same time astrophysical and cosmological information from the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds (SGWBs): the cross-correlation with other cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Angelo Ricciardone , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Nicola Bartolo , Daniele Bertacca , Michele Liguori , Sabino Matarrese

It is well known that energy fluxes will produce gravitational wave memory. The gravitational wave memory produced by background including cosmic microwave background (CMB), cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), and gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

When searching for gravitational waves in the data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors it is common to use a detection threshold to reduce the number of background events which are unlikely to be the signals of interest. However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-03 C. Messenger , J. Veitch

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays indicate the presence of gravitational wave signals, likely from supermassive black hole binaries. These binaries can produce two types of signals: a stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 Irene Ferranti , Golam Shaifullah , Aurelien Chalumeau , Alberto Sesana

We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo