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The recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) waves originating from the same source marks the start of a new multi-messenger era in astronomy. The arrival time difference between the GW and EM signal can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-31 Paolo Cremonese , Edvard Mörtsell

Primordial density perturbations in the radiation-dominated era of the early Universe are expected to generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) due to nonlinear mode coupling. In this \emph{Letter}, we report on a search for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Parameswaran Ajith

Understanding how and when the first stars and galaxies formed remains one of the central challenges in modern cosmology. These structures emerged during the transition from the Dark Ages to the Cosmic Dawn, a period that remains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Avinash Tiwari , Sajad A. Bhat , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Susmita Adhikari , Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia

Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Universe. However, any such background is expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Haowen Zhong , Luca Reali , Bei Zhou , Emanuele Berti , Vuk Mandic

The evidence of the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background is reported by multiple pulsar timing array collaborations. While a prominent candidate of the origin is astrophysical from supermassive black hole binaries,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Katsuya T. Abe , Yuichiro Tada

We use gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes (BBHs) and neutron stars inspiraling into intermediate-mass black holes to evaluate how accurately the future space-based GW detectors such as LISA, Taiji and TianQin and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Qing Gao , Yujie You , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang

Basic aspects of the background of gravitational waves and its mathematical characterization are reviewed. The spectral energy density parameter $\Omega(f)$, commonly used as a quantifier of the background, is derived for an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Pablo A. Rosado

Gravitational wave observations provide unique opportunities to search for cosmic strings. One of the strongest sources of gravitational waves is discontinuities of cosmic strings, called kinks, which are generated at points of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Yuka Matsui , Koichiro Horiguchi , Daisuke Nitta , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We compute the abundance of cosmological gravitational waves produced during the evolution of an ultralight vector (spin-1) dark matter field. A homogeneous background vector field breaks spatial isotropy, requiring a Bianchi I geometry and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

As ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors improve in sensitivity, gravitational-wave background (GWB) signals will progressively become detectable. Currently, searches for the GWB model the signal as a power law; however, deviations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Taylor Knapp , Patrick M. Meyers , Arianna I. Renzini

The gravitational wave (GW) background produced at the cosmological chiral phase transition in a conformal extension of the standard model is studied. To obtain the bounce solution of coupled field equations we implement an iterative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Mayumi Aoki , Jisuke Kubo

In the framework of Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet (EsGB) gravity, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs), first produced by remote compact astrophysical sources and then propagating through the flat homogeneous and isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Jared Fier , Henry Han , Bowen Li , Kai Lin , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang

We discuss a cosmological scenario with a stochastic background of gravitational waves sourced by the tensor perturbation due to a hybrid inflationary model with cubic potential. The tensor-to-scalar ratio for the present hybrid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Rinsy Thomas , Jobil Thomas , Supin P Surendran , Minu Joy

Gravitational waves (GWs) at ultra-low frequencies (${\lesssim 100\,\mathrm{nHz}}$) are key to understanding the assembly and evolution of astrophysical black hole (BH) binaries with masses $\sim 10^{6}-10^{9}\,M_\odot$ at low redshifts.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Christopher J. Moore , Alberto Vecchio

In a modified gravity theory, the propagation equation of gravitational waves will be presented in a non-standard way. Therefore this tenor mode perturbation of time-space, as a complement to the scalar mode perturbation, provides a unique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lixin Xu

In testing gravity a model-independent way, one of crucial tests is measuring the propagation speed of a gravitational wave (GW). In general relativity, a GW propagates with the speed of light, while in the alternative theories of gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Atsushi Nishizawa

We simulate the evolution of a dust universe from $z=1089$ to $z=0$ by numerically integrating the Einstein's equation for a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaire-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background spacetime with scalar perturbations which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-12 Ke Wang

Although the general theory of relativity (GR) predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) have exactly the same propagation velocity as electromagnetic (EM) waves, many theories of gravity beyond GR expect otherwise. Accurate measurement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Tian-Yong Cao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi

Gravitational waves (GWs) are regarded as standard sirens for Cosmology. GWs from compact binary coalescence (CBC) can directly determine the luminosity distance but usually can not obtain information about the redshift. However, if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-23 Ye Jiang , Wen-Biao Han