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Newly born magnetars are promising sources for gravitational wave (GW) detection due to their ultra-strong magnetic fields and high spin frequencies. Within the scenario of a growing tilt angle between the star's spin and magnetic axis, due…

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Several Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations have recently found evidence for a Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) by measuring the perturbations that this background induces in the time-of-arrivals of pulsar signals. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Thomas Konstandin , Anna-Malin Lemke , Andrea Mitridate , Enrico Perboni

One of the main pillars of the {\Lambda}CDM model is the Cosmological Principle, which states that our Universe is statistically isotropic and homogeneous on large scales. Here we test this hypothesis using the Astrophysical Gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Angelo Ricciardone , Daniele Bertacca

We discuss the polarizational study of isotropic gravitational wave backgrounds with the second generation detector network, paying special attention to the impacts of adding LIGO-India. The backgrounds can be characterized by at most five…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hidetoshi Omiya , Naoki Seto

We study the statistical properties of the anisotropy in the gravitational wave (GW) background originating from supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. We derive the distribution of the GW anisotropy power spectrum coefficients,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Juhan Raidal , Juan Urrutia , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

In this work, we propose a graph-based method implemented on the pulsar timing residuals (PTRs) for stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) detection within the nano-Hertz frequency regime and examining uncertainties of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 M. Alakhras , S. M. S. Movahed

We study the interferometric observation of intensity and polarization anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We show that the observed correlated data is defined in the group manifold of the three-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-25 Yu-Kuang Chu , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

We analyze the signal processing required for the optimal detection of a stochastic background of gravitational radiation using laser interferometric detectors. Starting with basic assumptions about the statistical properties of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Bruce Allen , Joseph D. Romano

We propose a method for separating and detecting the non-tensor modes of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors. We consider four distinct data-reconstruction schemes for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Bo Mu , Zong-Kuan Guo

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

The measurement of gravitational waves produced by binary black-hole mergers at the Advanced LIGO has encouraged extensive studies on the stochastic gravitational wave background. Recent studies have focused on gravitational wave sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-18 Wenfeng Cui , Fei Huang , Jing Shu , Yue Zhao

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to extract the information contained in this background and to…

Statistical anisotropy in the nanohertz-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) is expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. By developing a frequentist statistical framework that intrinsically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Nihan Pol , Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph D. Romano

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) consists of an incoherent collection of waves from both astrophysical and cosmological sources. To distinguish the SGWB from noise, it is essential to verify its quadrupolar nature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-22 Yifan Chen , Yuxiang Liu , Jing Shu , Bin Xu , Xiao Xue , Yanjie Zeng

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

In this work, we study the prospect of detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background with the TianQin Observatory. We consider sources of both astrophysical-origin and cosmological-origin, including stellar-mass binary black holes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Yi-Ming Hu , Yun Jiang , Jun Cheng , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported evidence for a nanohertz gravitational wave background (GWB). Such a background signal could be produced by supermassive binary black holes, early-Universe processes…

Extended sources of the stochastic gravitational backgrounds have been conventionally searched on the spherical harmonics bases. The analysis during the previous observing runs by the ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such LIGO and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Leo Tsukada , Santiago Jaraba , Deepali Agarwal , Erik Floden

Astrometric measurements provide a unique avenue for constraining the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In this work, we investigate the application of two neural network architectures, a fully connected network and a graph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Marienza Caldarola , Gonzalo Morrás , Santiago Jaraba , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Savvas Nesseris , Juan García-Bellido