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Pulsar timing arrays recently found evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB), likely the stochastic overlap of GWs from many supermassive black hole binaries. Anticipating a continuous gravitational wave (CW) detection from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Emiko C. Gardiner , Bence Bécsy , Luke Zoltan Kelley , Neil J. Cornish

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

Compact Galactic binaries where at least one member is a white dwarf or neutron star constitute the majority of individually detectable sources for future low-frequency space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories; they also form an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Samaya Nissanke , Michele Vallisneri , Gijs Nelemans , Thomas A. Prince

Gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences are most efficiently identified through matched filter searches, which match the data against a pre-generated bank of gravitational-wave templates. Although different techniques…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Connor McIsaac , Charlie Hoy , Ian Harry

Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will provide unprecedented sensitivity to inspiraling binary neutron stars and black holes, enabling detections at the peak of star formation and beyond. However, the signals from these systems…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 Andrew L. Miller , Neha Singh , Cristiano Palomba

Scalar-tensor theories are among the simplest extensions of general relativity. In theories with light scalars, deviations from Einstein's theory of gravity are determined by the scalar mass m_s and by a Brans-Dicke-like coupling parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Michael Horbatsch , Justin Alsing

The detection of galactic binaries as sources of gravitational waves promises an unprecedented wealth of information about these systems, but also raises several challenges in signal processing. In particular the large number of expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 A. Blelly , J. Bobin , H. Moutarde

At nanohertz frequencies gravitational waves (GWs) cause variations in time-of-arrival of pulsar signals potentially measurable via precision timing observations. Here we compute very-low-frequency GW sensitivity constrained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Fredrick A. Jenet , J. W. Armstrong , Massimo Tinto

Basic aspects of the background of gravitational waves and its mathematical characterization are reviewed. The spectral energy density parameter $\Omega(f)$, commonly used as a quantifier of the background, is derived for an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Pablo A. Rosado

We investigate the potential to detect low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) through their imprints on the proper motions of distant quasars observed by the Gaia mission. Using astrometric data from Gaia DR3, we simulate the effect of GWs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 V. Akhmetov , L. Filipello , M. Crosta , M. G. Lattanzi , B. Bucciarelli , U. Abbas , F. Santucci

We use a self-consistent Monte Carlo treatment of stellar dynamics to investigate black hole binaries that are dynamically ejected from globular clusters to determine if they will be gravitational wave sources. We find that many of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 J. M. B. Downing , M. J. Benacquista , M. Giersz , R. Spurzem

Gravitational waves (GWs) can resonate with magnetic fields through the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich effect, producing electromagnetic signals at the same frequency. In pulsar magnetospheres, this conversion may yield a faint radio-band signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Hong , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang , Shi-Yu Li , Pei Wang

We revisit the decay of the orbital period in binary systems that occurs due to the emission of gravitational waves in the context of modified gravity models where the coupling $G_{gw}$ between matter and on-shell gravitons is allowed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Diego Santos de Jesus , Hermano Velten , Federico Piazza

Continuous gravitational waves, i.e., persistent and nearly-monochromatic signals emitted by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, remain elusive. Searches for these signals from unknown binary systems are the most computationally challenging,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 P. B. Covas , M. A. Papa , R. Prix

The direct detection of gravitational waves crowns decades of efforts in the modelling of sources and of increasing detectors' sensitivity. With future third-generation Earth-based detectors or space-based observatories, gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-17 Lorenzo Annulli , Laura Bernard , Diego Blas , Vitor Cardoso

Theoretical studies in gravitational wave astronomy have mostly focused on the information that can be extracted from individual detections, such as the mass of a binary system and its location in space. Here we consider how the information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthew Adams , Neil Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

We perform a comprehensive study of gravitational waves in the context of the higher-order quadratic scalar curvature gravity, which encompasses the ordinary Einstein-Hilbert term in the action plus an $R^{2}$ contribution and a term of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-06 S. G. Vilhena , L. G. Medeiros , R. R. Cuzinatto

A large population of binary systems in the Universe emitting gravitational waves (GW) would produce a stochastic noise, known as the gravitational wave background (GWB). The properties of the GWB directly depend on the attributes of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Mikel Falxa , Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere , Alberto Sesana