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We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli

We consider a search for the anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) that decomposes the sky map into its spherical harmonics components in order to obtain estimators of the angular power spectrum. Such a search often…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Erik Floden , Alex Granados , Vuk Mandic

We describe our methodology for comparing the WMAP measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and other complementary data sets to theoretical models. The unprecedented quality of the WMAP data, and the tight constraints on…

We perform multi-scale non-Gaussianity detection and localization to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) first-year data in both wavelet and real spaces. Such an analysis is facilitated by spherical wavelet transform and inverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xin Liu , Shuang Nan Zhang

Gravitational radiation offers a unique possibility to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, gravitational wave sources and propagation in a completely novel way. Given that gravitational wave maps contain a wealth of…

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

We propose a graphical representation of detector sensitivity curves for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds that takes into account the increase in sensitivity that comes from integrating over frequency in addition to integrating…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Eric Thrane , Joseph D Romano

Future missions of gravitational-wave astronomy will be operated by space-based interferometers, covering very wide range of frequency. Search for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) is one of the main targets for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya , Takashi Hiramatsu , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Superposition of gravitational waves generated by astrophysical sources is expected to give rise to the stochastic gravitational-wave background. We focus on the background generated by the ring-down of black holes produced in the stellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 K. Crocker , V. Mandic , T. Regimbau , K. Belczynski , W. Gladysz , K. Olive , T. Prestegard , E. Vangioni

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect a wide variety of gravitational wave sources in the mHz band. Some of these signals will elude individual detection, instead contributing as confusion noise to one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Steven Rieck , Alexander W. Criswell , Valeriya Korol , Michael A. Keim , Malachy Bloom , Vuk Mandic

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

Stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) poses significant challenges for data analysis and parameter inference in future space-based gravitational-wave missions, such as LISA and Taiji, as it appears as an additional stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Jing-yi Wu , Yong Tang

Physical scenarios, leading to highly energetic stochastic gravitational waves backgrounds (for frequencies ranging from the $\mu$Hz up to the GHz) are examined. In some cases the typical amplitude of the logarithmic energy spectrum can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Massimo Giovannini

Our spacetime is filled with gravitational wave backgrounds that constitute a fluctuating environment created by astrophysical and cosmological sources. Bounds on these backgrounds are obtained from cosmological and astrophysical data but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Serge Reynaud , Brahim Lamine , Loic Duchayne , Peter Wolf , Marc-Thierry Jaekel

We estimate the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from all stellar core-collapse events in the universe based on the gravitational-wave signal predictions of recent numerical simulations. We focus on waveforms from slowly or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Bella Finkel , Haakon Andresen , Vuk Mandic

Given the recent advances in gravitational-wave detection technologies, the detection and characterisation of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a real possibility. To assess the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni , Arianna I. Renzini , Giulia Cusin , Nikos Karnesis , Marco Peloso , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Universe. However, any such background is expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Haowen Zhong , Luca Reali , Bei Zhou , Emanuele Berti , Vuk Mandic

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

These lecture notes provide a brief introduction to methods used to search for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation -- a superposition of gravitational-wave signals that are either too weak or too numerous to individually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Joseph D. Romano

The epoch when the Universe had a temperature higher than a GeV is long before any time at which we have reliable observations constraining the cosmological evolution. For example, the occurrence of a second burst of inflation (sometimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis E Mendes , Andrew R Liddle