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Using data of the Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST) we have made a search for muon neutrinos and antineutrinos with energies above 1 GeV coinciding with the gravitational wave event GW170817 that was recorded on August 17,…

Motivated by the recent release of new results from five different pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments claiming to have found compelling evidence for primordial gravitational waves (GW) at nano-Hz frequencies, we consider the prospects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Rome Samanta

The detections of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) systems and neutron star--black hole (NSBH) systems provide new insights into dense matter properties in extreme conditions and associated high-energy astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-22 Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

Long-lived gravitational wave (GW) transients have received interest in the last decade, as the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo increases. Such signals, lasting between 10 and 1000s, can come from a variety of sources, including accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin

We explore the constraints on dark sector models imposed by the recent observation of coincident gravitational waves and gamma rays from a binary neutron star merger, GW170817. Rather than focusing on specific models as has been considered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Richard A. Battye , Francesco Pace , Damien Trinh

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Effective field theories (EFT) of dark energy (DE) -- built to parameterise the properties of DE in an agnostic manner -- are severely constrained by measurements of the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GW). However, GW frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Tessa Baker , Enrico Barausse , Anson Chen , Claudia de Rham , Mauro Pieroni , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter model explains cosmological observations most accurately till date. However, it is still plagued with various shortcomings at galactic scales. Models of dark matter such as superfluid dark matter, Bose-Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-21 Shreya Banerjee , Sayantani Bera , David F. Mota

Gravitational waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein within the framework of general relativity, were confirmed in 2015 by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration, marking a pivotal breakthrough in astrophysics. Despite this achievement, a key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Alessandro Licciardi , Davide Carbone , Lamberto Rondoni , Alessandro Nagar

Assuming that the short gamma-ray burst detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope about 0.4 seconds after the gravitational waves observed by the LIGO and VIRGO Collaborations originated from the same black hole merger event, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-02 Vincenzo Branchina , Manlio De Domenico

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has provided a new tool to study the Universe, with the scientific return enriched when combined with established probes: electromagnetic (EM) radiation and energetic particles. Since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Matt Nicholl , Igor Andreoni

We performed tests of General Relativity on gravitational wave signal GW230529_181500, which comes from what is most likely a neutrons star merging with a black hole in the lower mass gap. We used two different frameworks to perform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Elise M. Sänger

The number of astrophysical sources detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo is expected to increase as the detectors approach their design sensitivity. Gravitational wave detectors are also sensitive to transient noise sources created by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jade Powell

Recently, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration published the second observation on gravitational wave GW151226 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016)] from the binary black hole coalescence with initial masses about 14…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Zhe Chang , Chao-Guang Huang , Zhi-Chao Zhao

The first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the ground-based interferometers is expected to occur within the next few years. These interferometers will detect the mergers of compact object binaries composed of neutron stars…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 P. S. Cowperthwaite , E. Berger

We study the gravitational waves (GWs) spectrum produced during the electroweak phase transition in a scale-invariant extension of the Standard Model (SM), enlarged by a dark $ U(1)_{D} $ gauge symmetry. This symmetry incorporates a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-10 Ahmad Mohamadnejad

On August 17, 2017, the first gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral (GW170817) was detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced VIRGO. Here we present radioactive $\beta$-decay rates of three independent sources $^{44}$Ti,…

The Advanced LIGO/Virgo interferometers have observed $\sim 100$ gravitational-wave transients enabling new questions to be answered about relativity, astrophysics, and cosmology. However, many of our current procedures for computing these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Noah E. Wolfe , Colm Talbot , Jacob Golomb

The study of ultralight dark matter helps to constrain the lower bound of the mass in minimally coupled dark matter models. The granular structure of ultralight dark matter density fields produces metric perturbations which have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrew Eberhardt , Qiuyue Liang , Elisa G. M. Ferreira

We study the left-right symmetric extension of the Standard Model (LRSM), featuring a TeV-scale right-handed (RH) gauge boson $W_R$ and three RH neutrinos. This setup naturally realises the type-II seesaw mechanism for active neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-08 Lucia A. Popa