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If there was a first order phase transition in the early universe, there should be an associated stochastic background of gravitational waves. In this paper, we point out that the characteristic frequency of the spectrum due to phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christophe Grojean , Geraldine Servant

We investigate the propagation of locally plane, small-amplitude, monochromatic gravitational waves through cold compressible interstellar gas in order to provide a more accurate picture of expected waveforms for direct detection. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-11 Dániel Barta , Mátyás Vasúth

This paper presents an estimate for the spectral properties of the stochastic background of gravitational waves emitted by a population of hot, young, rapidly rotating neutron stars throughout the Universe undergoing $f$-mode instabilities,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Marco Surace , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

We propose a gauge singlet scalar with mass around 1-100 TeV as a thermal heavy dark matter candidate along with a dilaton as a Higgs portal mediator in a dimensionless scalar extension of the Standard Model. We demonstrate analytically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Parsa Ghorbani

We estimate the gravitational wave amplitude as a function of frequency produced during the creation of pulsars from the gravitational collapse of a massive star. The three main quantities needed are the magnitude of the magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Leonard S. Kisslinger , Bijit Singha , Zhou Li-juan

Gravitational wave predicted by General Relativity is the transverse wave of spatial strain. Several gravitational waveform signals from binary black holes and from a binary neutron star system accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-02 Kai Liao , Marek Biesiada , Xi-Long Fan

We show that it is possible to use gravitational wave detectors to observe the occurrence of a first order phase transition in Pati-Salam extensions of the Standard Model. We show that the peak frequency of the expected gravitational wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Wei-Chih Huang , Francesco Sannino , Zhi-Wei Wang

Gravitational waves provide a unique window into gravity, cosmology, and high-energy physics, enabling the exploration of fundamental phenomena across a wide range of scales. This review presents a coherent and pedagogical framework that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Azadeh Maleknejad

Gravitational wave oscillations arise from the exchange of energy between the metric perturbations and additional tensor modes. This phenomenon can occur even when the extra degrees of freedom consist of a triplet of massive Abelian vector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Gabriel Gomez , Jose F. Rodriguez

We revisit the production of gravitational waves from unstable domain walls analyzing their spectrum by the use of field theoretic lattice simulations with grid size $1024^3$, which is larger than the previous study. We have recognized that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-21 Takashi Hiramatsu , Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

A method is suggested to explore the gravitational wave background (GWB) in the frequency range from $10^{-12}$ to \hbox{$10^{-8}$ Hz}. That method is based on the precise measurements of pulsars' rotational parameters: the influence of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 M. S. Pshirkov

A general linear gauge-invariant equation for dispersive gravitational waves (GWs) propagating in matter is derived. This equation describes, on the same footing, both the usual tensor modes and the gravitational modes strongly coupled with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-12 Deepen Garg , I. Y. Dodin

We analyze the propagation of gravitational waves in a medium containing bounded subsystems ("molecules"), able to induce significant Macroscopic Gravity effects. We establish a precise constitutive relation between the average quadrupole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-26 Giovanni Montani , Fabio Moretti

Primordial black holes (PBHs) with masses between $10^{14}$ and $10^{20}$ kg are candidates to contribute a substantial fraction of the total dark matter abundance. When in orbit around the center of a star, which can possibly be a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Vitorio A. De Lorenci , David I. Kaiser , Patrick Peter , Lucas S. Ruiz , Noah E. Wolfe

A novel method for extending frequency frontier in gravitational wave observations is proposed. It is shown that gravitational waves can excite a magnon. Thus, gravitational waves can be probed by a graviton-magnon detector which measures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Asuka Ito , Tomonori Ikeda , Kentaro Miuchi , Jiro Soda

The prospects for detection of gravitational waves from precessing pulsars have been considered by constructing fully relativistic rotating neutron star models and evaluating the expected wave amplitude $h$ from a galactic source. For a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 J. C. N. de Araújo , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco , J. E. Horvath , M. Cattani

First order phase transitions in the early universe could produce a gravitational-wave background that might be detectable by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Such an observation would provide evidence for physics beyond the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Renate Meyer

We investigate the quantum properties of gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a classical energy-momentum tensor. Treating the GW field as a quantum field coupled to a classical source, we evaluate the expectation value of the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Felix Laga , Teruaki Suyama

Gravitational waves are predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity as well as other theories of gravity. The rotational stability of the fastest pulsars means that timing of an array of these objects can be used to detect and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Ellis , M. A. McLaughlin , J. P. W. Verbiest

The question whether gravitational waves are quantised or not can in principle be answered by the help of correlation measurements. If the gravitational waves are quantised and they are generated by the change of the background metrics then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 I. Lovas