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The astrophysical gravitational wave background in the nanohertz (nHz) band is expected to be primarily composed of the superposition of signals from binaries of supermassive black holes. The spatial discreteness of these sources introduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Martin Pijnenburg , Alberto Sesana

The investigation of the anisotropy of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) using the TianQin detector plays a crucial role in studying the early universe and astrophysics. In this work, we examine the response of the $AET$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Kun Zhou , Jun Cheng , Liangliang Ren

We present results from searches of recent LIGO and Virgo data for continuous gravitational wave signals (CW) from spinning neutron stars and for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The first part of the talk is devoted to CW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 C. Palomba

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish

Stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) consist of a primordial component from early Universe processes and an astrophysical component from compact binary mergers. To detect the primordial stochastic GW background (SGWB), the astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Mingzheng Li , Jiming Yu , Zhen Pan

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background, particularly radiation from individually unresolvable super-massive black hole binary systems, is one of the primary targets for Pulsar Timing Arrays. Increasingly more stringent upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Trevor Sidery , Ilya Mandel , Alberto Vecchio

Cosmic strings play a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe, unifying our knowledge of cosmology, and potentially unveiling new physical laws and phenomena. The advent and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Nan Yang , Jin Li , Brendan McCane , Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Minghui Zhang , Yan Meng

Analyzing the records of Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational observatories, we found a permanent time-domain asymmetry inherent only to the signals of their gravitational detectors. Experiments with different periodic signals, Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander V. Kramarenko , Andrey V. Kramarenko

The measurement of the inflationary stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is one of the main goals of future GW experiments. In direct GW experiments, an obstacle to achieving it is the isolation of the inflationary SGWB from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Zhen-Yuan Wu , Ryo Saito , Nobuyuki Sakai

Modeling the stochastic gravitational wave background from various astrophysical sources is a key objective in view of upcoming observations with ground- and space-based gravitational wave observatories such as Advanced LIGO, VIRGO, eLISA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Irina Dvorkin , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni , Joseph Silk

With strong evidence of a common-spectrum stochastic process in the most recent datasets from the NANOGrav Collaboration, the European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), Parkes PTA, and the International PTA, it is crucial to assess the effects of…

The spatial and temporal discreteness of gravitational wave sources leads to shot noise that may, in some regimes, swamp any attempts at measuring the anisotropy of the gravitational wave background. Cross-correlating a gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 David Alonso , Giulia Cusin , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cyril Pitrou

We estimate the amplitude and spatial anisotropy in the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) energy density due to compact binary coalescence (CBC) events: binary black holes (BBH), binary neutron stars (BNS), and black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-17 K. Z. Yang , G. Cusin , V. Mandic , C. Scarlata , J. Suresh , B. Altieri , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , A. Costille , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , P. Gómez-Alvarez , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , E. Sefusatti , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , T. Castro , J. García-Bellido , V. Scottez , M. Viel , P. Monaco

Recent reports of stochastic gravitational wave background from four independent pulsar-timing-array collaborations have renewed the interest in the cosmological gravitational wave background (CGWB), which is expected to open a new window…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-09 Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng

Weak-signal limit is often used in estimating stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) intensities. This approximation fails and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) can be much weaker when background signals are loud compared to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-22 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , En-Kun Li , Jian-dong Zhang , Yi-Ming Hu

We study the sensitivity of a pair of Einstein Telescopes (ET) (hypothetically located at the two sites currently under consideration for ET) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We focus on the $\ell…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Giorgio Mentasti , Marco Peloso

The stochastic gravitational wave background from compact binary coalescences is expected to be the first detectable stochastic signal via cross-correlation searches with terrestrial detectors. It encodes the cumulative merger history of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau

The millisecond pulsars, old-recycled objects spinning with high frequency $\mathcal{O}$ (kHz) sustaining the deformation from their spherical shape, may emit gravitational waves (GW). These are one of the potential candidates contributing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Vuk Mandic , Andrew Matas , Tania Regimbau

Unresolved and resolved sources of gravitational waves are at the origin of a stochastic gravitational wave background. While the computation of its mean density as a function of frequency in a homogeneous and isotropic universe is standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

The vast majority of gravitational-wave signals from stellar-mass compact binary mergers are too weak to be individually detected with present-day instruments and instead contribute to a faint, persistent background. This astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-19 Arianna I. Renzini , Thomas A. Callister , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr