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The astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) originates from numerous faint sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) signals arising from the coalescing binary compact objects. This background is expected to be discovered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Ramit Dey , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , Suvodip Mukherjee , Niayesh Afshordi

Gravitational Waves (GWs) from the early universe and unresolved astrophysical sources are expected to create a stochastic GW background (SGWB). The GW radiometer algorithm is well suited to probe such a background using data from ground…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Anirban Ain , Prathamesh Dalvi , Sanjit Mitra

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) derive from the superposition of numerous individually unresolved gravitational-wave (GW) signals. Detecting SGWBs provides us with invaluable information about astrophysics, cosmology, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Bei Zhou , Luca Reali , Emanuele Berti , Mesut Çalışkan , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski , B. S. Sathyaprakash

We employ the formalism developed in \cite{Mentasti:2023gmg} and \cite{Bartolo_2022} to study the prospect of detecting an anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) alone,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo R. Contaldi , Marco Peloso

With the growing number of gravitational-wave detections, particularly from binary black hole mergers, there is increasing anticipation that an astrophysical background, formed by an ensemble of faint, high-redshift events, will be observed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Xiaolin Liu , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We show that the anisotropies of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background in the mHz band have a strong dependence on the modelling of galactic and sub-galactic physics. We explore a wide range of self-consistent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Giulia Cusin , Irina Dvorkin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

We study the cross-correlation between the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) generated by binary black hole (BBH) mergers across the universe and the distribution of galaxies across the sky. We use the anisotropic SGWB…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Kate Z. Yang , Jishnu Suresh , Giulia Cusin , Sharan Banagiri , Noelle Feist , Vuk Mandic , Claudia Scarlata , Ioannis Michaloliakos

We develop a numerical scheme to make a high-frequency skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. Based on the cross-correlation technique, the intensity distribution of anisotropic GWB can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Atsushi Taruya

High-precision astrometry offers a promising approach to detect low-frequency gravitational waves, complementing pulsar timing array (PTA) observations. We explore the response of astrometric measurements to a stochastic gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 N. M. Jiménez Cruz , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

The nature of the gravitational wave background (GWB) is a key question in modern astrophysics and cosmology, with significant implications for understanding of the structure and evolution of the Universe. We demonstrate how…

We investigate the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We first discuss the main astrophysical and cosmological sources of SGWB which are…

The high redshift merger rate and mass distribution of black hole binaries provide a direct probe to distinguish astrophysical black holes (ABHs) and primordial black holes (PBHs), which can be studied using the Stochastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Mohit Raj Sah , Suvodip Mukherjee

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by merging neutron stars exhibits a peak in the kHz band. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to exploit this distinctive feature through a Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giulia Capurri , Andrea Lapi , Mario Spera , Carlo Baccigalupi

We propose a diagnostic tool for future analyses of stochastic gravitational wave background signals of extra-galactic origin in LISA data. Next-generation gravitational wave detectors hold the capability to track unresolved gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , David Maibach

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals, of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. Some cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. G. Crowder , R. Namba , V. Mandic , S. Mukohyama , M. Peloso

An important next step for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is to measure anisotropies in the gravitational wave background (GWB) at $\sim$ nano-Hz frequencies. We calculate the expected GWB anisotropies using empirically calibrated models for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Meng-Xiang Lin , Adam Lidz , Chung-Pei Ma

We consider anisotropies in the stochastic background of gravitational-waves (SBGW) arising from random fluctuations in the number of gravitational-wave sources. We first develop the general formalism which can be applied to different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Olmez , V. Mandic , X. Siemens

Several earth-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are actively pursuing the quest for placing observational constraints on models that predict the behavior of a variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources. These sources span a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sukanta Bose

This article explores the properties (amplitude and shape) of the angular power spectrum of the anisotropies of the astrophysical gravitational wave background (AGWB) focusing on the signatures of the astrophysical models describing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Giulia Cusin , Irina Dvorkin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan