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Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) generated in the early Universe form a stochastic GW background, which can be directly probed by measuring the timing residuals of millisecond pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the constraints on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Xiao-Jin Liu , Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang , Zong-Hong Zhu

Analyzing the imprint of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra provides a way to determine the signal of RGWs. In this Letter, we discuss a statistical bias, which could exist in the data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-25 Wen Zhao

Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) leave well-understood imprints on the anisotropies in the temperature and polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. In the TT and TE information channels, which have been well observed by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-20 Wen Zhao , Cheng Cheng , Qing-Guo Huang

In this paper we briefly present our works on the relic gravitational waves (RGW) and the CMB polarization in the accelerating universe. The spectrum of RGW has been obtained, showing the influence of the dark energy. Compared with those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Zhang , W. Zhao , T. Y. Xia , X. Z. Er , H. X. Miao

As the strong evidence for inflation, the relic gravitational waves (RGW) have been extensively studied. Although, it has not been detected, yet some constraints have been achieved by the observations. Future experiments for the RGW…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wen Zhao , Yang Zhang

The prospect of detecting relic gravitational waves (RGWs), through their imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation, provides an excellent opportunity to study the very early Universe. In simplest viable theoretical models the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Zhao , D. Baskaran

The polarization vector (PV) of an electromagnetic wave (EW) will experience a rotation in a region of spacetime perturbed by gravitational waves (GWs). Based on this idea, Cruise's group has built an annular waveguide to detect GWs. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 M. L. Tong , Y. Zhang

In the inflation models, the relic gravitational waves (RGW) generated in the inflation stage, and evolved in the Universe until now. In the different cosmological evolution models, one can get different gravitational waves power spectrum.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Wen Zhao

Detection of relic gravitational waves, through their imprint in the cosmic microwave background radiation, is one of the most important tasks for the planned CMBPol mission. In the simplest viable theoretical models the gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Wen Zhao

The authority of J. A. Wheeler in many areas of gravitational physics is immense, and there is a connection with the study of relic gravitational waves as well. I begin with a brief description of Wheeler's influence on this study. One part…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-09 L. P. Grishchuk

The relic gravitational wave (RGW) generated during the inflation depends on the initial condition via the amplitude, the spectral index $n_t$ and the running index $\alpha_t$. CMB observations so far have only constrained the tensor-scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-22 Jie-Wen Chen , Yang Zhang , Wen Zhao , Ming-Lei Tong

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detected recently by the pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) observations may have cosmological origins. In this work we consider a model of single field inflation containing an intermediate phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Alireza Talebian

The pulsar timing residuals induced by gravitational waves from non-evolving single binary sources are affected by many parameters related to the relative positions of the pulsar and the gravitational wave sources. We will fully analyze the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Ming-Lei Tong , Cheng-Shi Zhao , Bao-Rong Yan , Ting-Gao Yang , Yu-Ping Gao

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

This contribution summarizes some recent work on gravitational-wave astronomy and, especially, on the generation and detection of relic gravitational waves. We begin with a brief discussion of astrophysical sources of gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 L. P. Grishchuk

We assess the detectability of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background with respect to additive red and white noise in the timing of millisecond pulsars. We develop detection criteria based on the cross-correlation function summed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

A GHz maser beam with Gaussian-type distribution passing through a homogenous static magnetic field can be used to detect gravitational waves (GWs) with the same frequency. The presence of GWs will perturb the electromagnetic (EM) fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ming-lei Tong , Yang Zhang , Fang-Yu Li

We study the impact of a running index $\alpha_t$ on the spectrum of relic gravitational waves (RGWs) over the whole range of frequency $(10^{-18}\sim 10^{10})$ Hz and reveal its implications in RGWs detections and in cosmology. Analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 Ming-Lei Tong , Yang Zhang

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), such as those produced by supermassive binary black holes at subparsec separations. The incoherent superposition of GWs emitted by a cosmological population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Shashwat C. Sardesai , Gabriel E. Freedman , Sarah J. Vigeland , Caitlin A. Witt

Relic gravitational waves (RGWs) from early universe carry fundamental information, so it's extraordinarily important to search RGW signals from data of observatories like LIGO-Virgo network. Here, focusing on typical RGWs from inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Minghui Zhang , Hao Wen
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