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Gravitational waves provide a new probe of the Universe which can reveal a number of cosmological and astrophysical phenomena that cannot be observed by electromagnetic waves. Different frequencies of gravitational waves are detected by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We propose that when neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries accrete sufficient mass and become millisecond pulsars, the interiors of these stars may undergo phase transitions, which excite stellar radial oscillations. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. S. Cheng , Z. G. Dai

HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures. These clusters amalgamate and if some of these clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pau Amaro-Seoane

Gravitational wave astronomy opened dramatically in September 2015 with the LIGO discovery of a distant and massive binary black hole coalescence. The more recent discovery of a binary neutron star merger, followed by a gamma ray burst and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Keith Riles

The focus of this Chapter is on describing the prospective sources of the gravitational wave universe accessible to present and future observations, from kHz, to mHz down to nano-Hz frequencies. The multi-frequency gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Monica Colpi , Alberto Sesana

In this study, we look into binaries undergoing gravitational radiation during a hyperbolic passage. Such hyperbolic events can be a credible source of gravitational waves in future detectors. We systematically calculate fluxes of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Abhishek Chowdhuri , Rishabh Kumar Singh , Kaushik Kangsabanik , Arpan Bhattacharyya

It has recently been suggested that collapse of neutron stars induced by a phase transition to quark matter can be a considerable source of gravitational waves with kHz frequencies. We demonstrate that if about one percent of all neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guenter Sigl

We study the impact of young clusters on the gravitational wave background from compact binary coalescence. We simulate a catalog of sources from population I/II isolated binary stars and stars born in young clusters, corresponding to one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Carole Périgois , Filippo Santoliquido , Yann Bouffanais , Ugo N. Di Carlo , Nicola Giacobbo , Sara Rastello , Michela Mapelli , Tania Regimbau

With a reinterpretation of recent results, the GRACE Follow-On mission can be applied to gravitational wave astronomy. Existing GRACE Follow-On data constrain the stochastic gravitational wave background to $\Omega_{GW}<3.3\times10^{7}$ at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 M. P. Ross , C. A. Hagedorn , E. A. Shaw , A. L. Lockwood , B. M. Iritani , J. G. Lee , K. Venkateswara , J. H. Gundlach

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

The astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) originates from numerous faint sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) signals arising from the coalescing binary compact objects. This background is expected to be discovered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Ramit Dey , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , Suvodip Mukherjee , Niayesh Afshordi

We discuss the potential cosmological role of gravitational wave astronomy as a probe of the very early universe. The next generation of detectors - now in production - may be able to observe a stochastic background of gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

Gravitational waves have become an irreplaceable tool for exploring the post-inflationary universe. Their cosmological and astrophysical origins have been attracting numerous attention. In this Letter, we point out a novel source of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Shinya Kanemura , Kunio Kaneta

One of the promising sources of gravitational radiation is a binary system composed of compact stars. It is an important question how the rotation of the bodies and the eccentricity of the orbit affect the detectable signal. Here we present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Mátyás Vasúth , János Majár

Stars and black holes are sources of gravitational radiation in many phases of their life, and the signals they emit exhibit features that are characteristic of the generating process. Emitted since the beginning of star formation, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Valeria Ferrari

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently reported a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in the pulsar-timing data. We evaluate the evidence of interpreting this process as mergers of super massive black hole binaries and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Ruiyu Zhou

We study the effect of a stochastic background of gravitational waves on the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. It has been shown that matter density inhomogeneities produce a smoothing of the acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Silvia Mollerach

Gravitational waves offer an unprecedented opportunity to look into the violent high-energy processes happening during the reheating phase of our Universe. We consider a Hubble-induced phase transition scenario as a source of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Dario Bettoni , Giorgio Laverda , Asier Lopez-Eiguren , Javier Rubio

We calculate stochastic gravitational wave background produced by extragalactic merging binary white dwarfs at the LISA frequencies $10^{-3}-10^{-2}$ Hz with account of a strong evolution of global star formation rate in the Universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kosenko , K. A. Postnov

Gravitational waves provide a novel way to probe axions or axion-like particles coupled to a dark photon field, even in the absence of couplings to Standard Model particles. In the conventional misalignment mechanism, the generation of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-25 Eric Madge , Wolfram Ratzinger , Daniel Schmitt , Pedro Schwaller