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Gravitational waves (GWs) produced by sound waves in the primordial plasma during a strong first-order phase transition in the early Universe are going to be a main target of the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-17 Kai Schmitz

We discuss the sensitivity to anisotropies of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In addition to the unresolved galactic binaries as the most promising GWB source of the planned Laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

We derive a general procedure for calculating the gravitational wave background (GWB) from cosmic string loops whose typical shape evolves over time, as in gravitational backreaction. Using the results of a large-scale study of numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Jeremy M. Wachter , Ken D. Olum , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado

Disentangling the rich astrophysical structure of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from its cosmological component is essential for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to access the physics of the early Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Mesut Çalışkan , Neha Anil Kumar , Marc Kamionkowski , Sihao Cheng

On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…

One of the most interesting predictions of string-inspired cosmological models is the presence of a stochastic background of relic gravitational waves in the frequency band accessible to Earth-based detectors. Here we consider a ``minimal''…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

The geosynchronous Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (gLISA) is a space-based gravitational wave (GW) mission that, for the past five years, has been under joint study at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford University, the National…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Massimo Tinto , Jose' Carlos N. de Araujo

The LISA mission will likely be a signal dominated detector, such that one challenge is the separation of the different astrophysical sources, and to distinguish between them and the instrumental noise. One of the goals of LISA is to probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-19 Martina Muratore , Daniele Vetrugno , Stefano Vitale , Olaf Hartwig

Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves (SIGWs), second-order tensor modes sourced by first-order scalar fluctuations in General Relativity (GR), are expected to contribute to the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) potentially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-11 Anjali Abirami Kugarajh , Marisol Traforetti , Andrea Maselli , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic superstrings using a semi-analytical velocity-dependent model to describe their dynamics. We show that heavier string types may leave distinctive signatures on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Lara Sousa , Pedro P. Avelino

Pulsar timing arrays' hint for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) leverages the expectations of a future detection in the millihertz band, particularly with the LISA space mission. However, finding an SGWB with a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolaos Karnesis , Quentin Baghi , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Nikiforos Galanis

Forthcoming advances in direct gravitational wave detection from kilohertz to nanohertz frequencies have unique capabilities to detect signatures from or set meaningful constraints on a wide range of new cosmological phenomena and new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Craig J. Hogan

Recent studies have revealed the contribution of extragalactic DWD to the astrophysical SGWB could be detectable in the mHz regime by LISA. Conversely, the presence of this SGWB could hamper the detection of cosmological SGWB, which are one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Guillaume Boileau , Tristan Bruel , Alexandre Toubiana , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen

Armstrong et al. have recently presented new ways of combining signals to precisely cancel laser frequency noise in spaceborne interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LISA. One of these combinations, the symmetrized Sagnac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Craig J. Hogan , Peter L. Bender

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect a large gravitational-wave foreground of Galactic white dwarf binaries. These sources are exceptional for their probable detection at electromagnetic wavelengths, some long…

We analyze the gravitational wave signatures of a network of metastable cosmic strings. We consider the case of cosmic string instability to breakage, with no primordial population of monopoles. This scenario is well motivated from GUT and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Louis Leblond , Benjamin Shlaer , Xavier Siemens

TianQin and LISA are space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors planned to be launched in the mid-2030s. Both detectors will detect low-frequency GWs around $10^{-2}\,{\rm Hz}$, however, TianQin is more sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Shun-Jia Huang , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Shuai Liu , Hai-Tian Wang , Chang-Qing Ye , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei

Cosmic strings, theoretical one-dimensional topological defects from the early universe, provide a valuable opportunity for exploring dark matter (DM) production and gravitational wave (GW) emission. Our study investigates the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Hanyu Cheng , Luca Visinelli

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA, are expected to detect thousands of Galactic close white dwarf binaries emitting nearly monochromatic GWs. In this study, we demonstrate that LISA is reasonably likely to detect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

Gravitational waves encode invaluable information about the nature of the relatively unexplored extreme gravity regime, where the gravitational interaction is strong, non-linear and highly dynamical. Recent gravitational wave observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-25 Katie Chamberlain , Nicolas Yunes