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Gravitational waves (GWs) can convert into electromagnetic waves in the presence of a magnetic field via the Gertsenshtein-Zeldovich (GZ) effect. The characteristics of the magnetic field substantially affect this conversion probability.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei Hong , Zhen-Zhao Tao , Peng He , Tong-Jie Zhang

After giving a brief introduction and presenting a complete classification of gravitational waves (GWs) according to their frequencies, we review and summarize the detection methods, the sensitivities, and the sources. We notice that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Kazuaki Kuroda , Wei-Tou Ni , Wei-Ping Pan

In this work, we analyze the implications of graviton to photon conversion in the presence of large scale magnetic fields. We consider the magnetic fields associated with galaxy clusters, filaments in the large scale structure, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 M. S. Pshirkov , D. Baskaran

First order phase transitions are well-motivated and extensively studied sources of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. The vacuum energy released during such transitions is assumed to be transferred primarily either to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryusuke Jinno , Bibhushan Shakya , Jorinde van de Vis

We investigate gravitational waves (GWs) generated in a two-field inflationary model with a non-canonical kinetic term, in which the gravitational Chern-Simons term is coupled to a heavy dynamical field. In such a model, primordial GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhi-Zhang Peng , Zhen-Min Zeng , Chengjie Fu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

The energy density of relic gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by primordial black holes (PBHs) is calculated. We estimate the intensity of GWs produced at quantum and classical scattering of PBHs, the classical graviton emission from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Alexander D. Dolgov , Damian Ejlli

The General Relativity affirms that any field is a source of gravitational field, thus one should affirm that the energy of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) generated primordial gravitational waves. The present article shows that a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-15 Wytler Cordeiro dos Santos

The existence of scalar fields can be probed by observations of stochastic gravitational waves. Scalar fields mediate attractive forces, usually stronger than gravity, on the length scales shorter than their Compton wavelengths, which can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko , Misao Sasaki

Primordial gravitational waves (GWs) with frequencies > 10^{-15} Hz contribute to the radiation density of the Universe at the time of decoupling of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of this GW background on the CMB and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tristan L. Smith , Elena Pierpaoli , Marc Kamionkowski

A novel method for extending frequency frontier in gravitational wave observations is proposed. It is shown that gravitational waves can excite a magnon. Thus, gravitational waves can be probed by a graviton-magnon detector which measures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Asuka Ito , Tomonori Ikeda , Kentaro Miuchi , Jiro Soda

We study gravitational waves generated by the cosmological magnetic fields induced via bubble collisions during the electroweak (EW) and QCD phase transitions. The magnetic field generation mechanisms considered here are based on the use of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Tina Kahniashvili , Leonard Kisslinger , Trevor Stevens

We compute the gravity waves induced by anisotropic stresses of stochastic primordial magnetic fields. The nucleosynthesis bound on gravity waves is then used to derive a limit on the magnetic field amplitude as function of the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer

When a gravitational wave or a graviton travels through an electric or magnetic background, it could convert into a photon with some probability. In this paper, a dipole magnetic field is considered as this kind of background in both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Chao-Jun Feng , Ao Guo , Zhong-Ming Xie , Miao Li

Gravitational waves are generated during first-order phase transitions, either by turbolence or by bubble collisions. If the transition takes place at temperatures of the order of the electroweak scale, the frequency of these gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Riccardo Apreda , Michele Maggiore , Alberto Nicolis , Antonio Riotto

We study primordial gravitational waves (GWs) generated from first-order phase transitions (PTs) during cosmic reheating. Using a minimal particle physics model, and a general parametrization of the inflaton energy density and the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Amitayus Banik , Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

We discuss the gravitational wave background generated by primordial density perturbations evolving during the radiation era. At second-order in a perturbative expansion, density fluctuations produce gravitational waves. We calculate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kishore N. Ananda , Chris Clarkson , David Wands

Conversion of gravitational waves into electromagnetic radiation is discussed. The probability of transformations of gravitons into photons in presence of cosmological background magnetic field is calculated at the recombination epoch and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-18 Alexander D. Dolgov , Damian Ejlli

The spectrum of thermal gravitational waves is obtained by including the high frequency thermal gravitons created from extra-dimensional effect and is a new feature of the spectrum. The amplitude and spectral energy density of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-21 Basem Ghayour , P K Suresh

We show that helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition generates circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The characteristic frequency of these GWs for an extreme case of the phase transition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tina Kahniashvili , Grigol Gogoberidze , Bharat Ratra , ;