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The stochastic gravitational wave background is a broadband target from diverse astrophysical and cosmological sources. The background falls within the mHz frequency band could become a potential observable for future space-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

We discuss some peculiar properties of the stochastic graviton background predicted by string cosmology. At Planckian times, for the values of the parameters of the model which are more interesting for the detection in gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Michele Maggiore

A world-wide effort is now underway to build gravitational wave detectors based on highly-sensitive laser interferometers. When data from detectors at different sites is properly combined, it will permit highly-sensitive searches for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-21 Bruce Allen

Primordial gravitational waves are expected to create a stochastic background encoding information about the early Universe that may not be accessible by other means. However, the primordial background is obscured by an astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-11 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Rory Smith

We analyse the stochastic background of gravitational radiation emitted by a cosmological population of core-collapse supernovae. The supernova rate as a function of redshift is deduced from an observation-based determination of the star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Valeria Ferrari , Sabino Matarrese , Raffaella Schneider

The stochastic gravitational wave background from compact binary coalescences is expected to be the first detectable stochastic signal via cross-correlation searches with terrestrial detectors. It encodes the cumulative merger history of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau

The gravitational wave (GW) interferometers LISA and ET are expected to be functional in the next decade(s), possibly around the same time. They will operate over different frequency ranges, with similar integrated sensitivities to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Alisha Marriott-Best , Debika Chowdhury , Anish Ghoshal , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Cosmic strings are predicted in many models beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In models which admit strings, a network of strings will inevitably be formed in a phase transition in the early universe and will persist to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Robert H. Brandenberger

In this article we update constraints on superconducting cosmic strings (SCSs) in light of the recent observational developments of fast radio bursts (FRBs) astronomy. Assuming strings follow an exponential distribution characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Batool Imtiaz , Rui Shi , Yi-Fu Cai

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) such as NANOGrav, EPTA, PPTA, and CPTA suggest the presence of nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB). While such signals could be explained by gravitational waves from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Yifan Hu , Kohei Kamada

Space-borne detectors, including TianQin and Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), are tasked with simultaneously observing the Galactic foreground, astrophysical and cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs). For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , En-Kun Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

We investigate the non-gaussian properties of cosmic-string-seeded linear density perturbations with cold and hot dark matter backgrounds, using high-resolution numerical simulations. We compute the one-point probability density function of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. P. Avelino , E. P. S. Shellard , J. H. P. Wu , B. Allen

With the goal of attempting to observe a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with LISA, the spectral separability of the cosmological and astrophysical backgrounds is important to estimate. We attempt to determine the level with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer , Neil J. Cornish

We consider an alternative approach for the computation of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by small loops produced throughout the cosmological evolution of cosmic string networks and use it to derive an analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 L. Sousa , P. P. Avelino

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The spectral content of the SGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Vuk Mandic , Eric Thrane , Stefanos Giampanis , Tania Regimbau

We analyze the signal processing required for the optimal detection of a stochastic background of gravitational radiation using laser interferometric detectors. Starting with basic assumptions about the statistical properties of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Bruce Allen , Joseph D. Romano

In this study, we investigate the scenario in which the stochastic signal arises from primordial gravitational waves. Within this framework, we consider two distinct possibilities: one in which the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jun Li , Guanghai Guo , Pengfei Yan

The purpose of this mock data and science challenge is to prepare the data analysis and science interpretation for the second generation of gravitational-wave experiments Advanced LIGO-Virgo in the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave…

Recent observations by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) indicate a potential detection of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. Metastable cosmic strings have been recognized as a possible source of the observed signals. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-04 Akifumi Chitose , Masahiro Ibe , Shunsuke Neda , Satoshi Shirai

Rapid advancement in the observation of cosmic strings has been made in recent years placing increasingly stringent constraints on their properties, with $G\mu\lesssim 10^{-11}$ from Pulsar Timing Array (PTA). Cosmic string loops with low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Zimu Khakhaleva-Li , Craig J. Hogan