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It is expected that gravitational waves, similar to electromagnetic waves, can be gravitationally lensed by intervening matters, producing multiple instances of the same signal arriving at different times from different apparent luminosity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Rico K. L. Lo , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

In a recent paper we described a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non-Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. In this work we propose an improved version of the detection procedure, preserving…

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

We discuss a robust data analysis method to detect a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. In contrast to the standard cross-correlation (SCC) statistic frequently used in the stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshiaki Himemoto , Atsushi Taruya , Hideaki Kudoh , Takashi Hiramatsu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will be the first Gravitational Wave observatory in space. It is scheduled to fly in the early 2030's. LISA design predicts sensitivity levels that enable the detection a Stochastic Gravitational Wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Nikolaos Karnesis , Marc Lilley , Antoine Petiteau

With the growing number of gravitational-wave detections, particularly from binary black hole mergers, there is increasing anticipation that an astrophysical background, formed by an ensemble of faint, high-redshift events, will be observed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Xiaolin Liu , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

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

A gravitational wave stochastic background of astrophysical origin may have resulted from the superposition of a large number of unresolved sources since the beginning of stellar activity. Its detection would put very strong constrains on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tania Regimbau

We investigate how a stochastic gravitational wave background, produced from a discrete set of astrophysical sources, differs from an idealised model consisting of an isotropic, unpolarised, and Gaussian background. We focus, in particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Duncan Meacher , Eric Thrane , Tania Regimbau

The cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by the mildly non-linear evolution of density fluctuations is analyzed, in the frame of an Einstein-de Sitter model, by means of a fully relativistic perturbation expansion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese , Silvia Mollerach

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) can arise from the superposition of many independent events. If the rate of events per unit time is sufficiently high, the resulting background is Gaussian, which is to say that it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-27 Eric Thrane

The detection of a stochastic background of gravitational waves could significantly impact our understanding of the physical processes that shaped the early Universe. The challenge lies in separating the cosmological signal from other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

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

Analyzing the records of Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational observatories, we found a permanent time-domain asymmetry inherent only to the signals of their gravitational detectors. Experiments with different periodic signals, Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander V. Kramarenko , Andrey V. Kramarenko

Along with the development of interferometric gravitational wave detector, we enter into an epoch of gravitational wave astronomy, which will open a brand new window for astrophysics to observe our universe. Almost all of the data analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-06-29 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

Binary Systems are the most studied sources of gravitational waves. The mechanisms of emission and the behavior of the orbital parameters are well known and can be written in analytic form in several cases. Besides, the strongest indication…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

We derive a detection method for a stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by events where the ratio of the average time between events to the average duration of an event is large. Such a signal would sound something like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan

Gravitational wave data from ground-based detectors is dominated by instrument noise. Signals will be comparatively weak, and our understanding of the noise will influence detection confidence and signal characterization. Mis-modeled noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-22 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse

Recent observations of gravitational waves from binary black holes and neutron stars allow us to probe the strong and dynamical field regime of gravity. On the other hand, a collective signal from many individual, unresolved sources results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Alexander Saffer , Kent Yagi

Future searches for a gravitational-wave background using Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors might be impacted by correlated noise sources. A well known example are the Schumann resonances, which are extensively studied in the context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Kamiel Janssens , Thomas A. Callister , Nelson Christensen , Michael W. Coughlin , Ioannis Michaloliakos , Jishnu Suresh , Nick van Remortel