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The models currently used in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) either do not consider a relative motion between the center-of-mass of the source and the observer, or usually only consider its effect on the frequencies of GWs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Xian Chen , Zhoujian Cao , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Peng Peng

We investigate a generic source of stochastic gravitational wave background due to the parametric resonance of oscillating scalar fields in the early Universe. By systematically analyzing benchmark models through lattice simulations and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-19 Yanou Cui , Pankaj Saha , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

The energy density of relic gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) is calculated. We estimate the intensity of GWs produced at quantum and classical scattering of PBHs, the classical graviton emission from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Alexander D. Dolgov , Damian Ejlli

The consortium NANOGrav discovered the isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB) with an amplitude of $h\sim 10^{-15}$ and a frequency of $f\sim 10^{-8}$ Hz using observations of millisecond pulsars. We hypothesize that the GWB is relic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Nick Gorkavyi

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), such as those produced by supermassive binary black holes at subparsec separations. The incoherent superposition of GWs emitted by a cosmological population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Shashwat C. Sardesai , Gabriel E. Freedman , Sarah J. Vigeland , Caitlin A. Witt

Most of the cosmological information extracted from the CMB has been obtained through the power spectrum, however there is much more to be learnt from the statistical distribution of the temperature random field. We review some recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez

The ultrahigh-frequency (above 10 kHz) gravitational waves (GW) window provides a unique opportunity to detect primordial GWs, free from astrophysical foregrounds that dominate lower frequencies. A stochastic GW background in this range is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Xinyao Guo , Haixing Miao , Zhi-Wei Wang , Huan Yang , Ye-Ling Zhou

Anomalies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) refer to features that have been observed, mostly at large angular scales, and which show some tension with the statistical predictions of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Ivan Agullo , Dimitrios Kranas , V. Sreenath

The detection of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves has great promise for the investigation of many scientific questions. It has long been hoped that in addition to providing extra, non-gravitational information about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Chris Pankow , Laura Sampson , Leah Perri , Eve Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

A new experiment for the gravitational waves (GWs) detection is proposed. It is indeed shown that the effect of GWs on sound waves (SWs) in a fluid is that GWs vary the pressure of the fluid by crossing it. This variation can be found by…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Basem Ghayour , Jafar Khodagholizadeh , Christian Corda , Ming-Lei Tong , Ali Ghayour

Stochastic gravitational waves (GW) associated with unresolved astrophysical sources at frequency bands of the ongoing GW interferometers LIGO/VIRGO and LISA are studied. We show that GW noise from rotating galactic neutron stars with low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

Motivated by recent progress in our understanding of the $B$-mode polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB), which provides important information about the inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs), we study the possibility to acquire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

The Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background (CGWB) is an irreducible background of gravitational waves generated by particle exchange in the early Universe plasma. Standard Model particles contribute to such a stochastic background with a peak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo , Andreas Schachner , Gonzalo Villa

This paper calculates the expected gravitational wave background (GWB) in the quasi-steady state cosmology (QSSC). The principal sources of gravitational waves in the QSSC are the minicreation events (MCE). With suitable assumptions the GWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 J. V. Narlikar , S. V. Dhurandhar , R. G. Vishwakarma , S. R. Valluri , Sayantan Auddy

We investigate the possibility of measuring the primordial gravitational wave (GW) signal across 21 decades in frequencies, using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), pulsar timing arrays (PTA), and laser and atomic interferometers. For…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Paolo Campeti , Eiichiro Komatsu , Davide Poletti , Carlo Baccigalupi

Although cosmic string scenario for galaxy formation is disfavored by CMB data, it is of great interest in the generation of cosmic gravitational-wave background. This research aims to develop an algorithm to extract cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-20 Alf Tang , Timothy J. Sumner

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been a treasure trove for cosmology. Over the next decade, current and planned CMB experiments are expected to exhaust nearly all primary CMB information. To further constrain cosmological models,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Benjamin Beringue , P. Daniel Meerburg , Joel Meyers , Nicholas Battaglia

The detection of primordial gravitational waves in Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode polarization observations requires accurate and robust subtraction of astrophysical contamination. We show, using a blind Spectral Matching Independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Alexander Steier , Shamik Ghosh , Jacques Delabrouille

Knowledge of the shape of the mass spectrum of compact objects can be used to help break the degeneracy between the mass and redshift of the gravitational wave (GW) sources, and thus can be used to infer cosmological parameters in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 S. Mastrogiovanni , K. Leyde , C. Karathanasis , E. Chassande-Mottin , D. A. Steer , J. Gair , A. Ghosh , R. Gray , S. Mukherjee , S. Rinaldi

A detection of the primordial gravitational wave background is considered to be the ``smoking-gun '' evidence for inflation. While super-horizon waves are probed with cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization, the relic background will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Tristan L. Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Asantha Cooray