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Cosmic strings represent an attractive source of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. However, numerical computation of the GW signal from cosmic strings requires the evaluation of complicated integral and sum expressions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schroeder

We perform a phenomenological comparison of the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum expected from cosmic gauge string networks and superstring networks comprised of multiple string types. We show how violations of scaling behavior and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Danny Marfatia , Ye-Ling Zhou

Early dark energy that relieves Hubble tension leaves a fingerprint in the primordial stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background that originates from cosmic string network. The signal is not only detectable with future planned GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Chia-Feng Chang

We compute the power spectrum of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic string networks described by the Velocity-Dependent One-Scale (VOS) model, for a wide range of macroscopic and microscopic parameters. The VOS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 L. Sousa , P. P. Avelino

We compare the spectrum of the stochastic gravitational wave background produced in several models of cosmic strings with the common-spectrum process recently reported by NANOGrav. We discuss theoretical uncertainties in computing such a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum , Jeremy M. Wachter

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

We present a catalog of gravitational wave background (GWB) signal templates from cosmic-string networks, based on relevant models proposed in the literature. We classify templates as conventional, based on standard cosmology and Nambu-Goto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Androniki Dimitriou , Daniel G. Figueroa , Peera Simakachorn , Bryan Zaldivar

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from cosmic strings is crucial for unveiling the evolutionary laws of the early universe and validating non-standard cosmological models. This study presents the first systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Geng-Chen Wang , Hong-Bo Jin , Xin Zhang

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

Cosmic strings are generic cosmological predictions of many extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics, such as a $U(1)^\prime$ symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe or remnants of superstring theory. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Yanou Cui , Marek Lewicki , David E. Morrissey , James D. Wells

A stochastic background of gravitational waves can be created by the superposition of a large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest moments of the universe certainly created a stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-22 Nelson Christensen

The Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) from cosmic superstrings offers one of the few known possibilities to test String Theory within current experimental reach. However, in order to be compatible with the existing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Anish Ghoshal , Filippo Revello , Gonzalo Villa

A characteristic observational signature of cosmic strings are short duration gravitational wave (GW) bursts. These have been searched for by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, and will be searched for with LISA. We point out that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-25 Pierre Auclair , Danièle A. Steer , Tanmay Vachaspati

We discuss $E_6$ based extensions of the Standard Model (SM) containing two varieties of superheavy metastable cosmic strings (CSs) that respectively have neutral and electrically charged current carriers. We employ an extended version of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Adeela Afzal , Qaisar Shafi , Amit Tiwari

We examine which information on the early cosmological history can be extracted from the potential measurement by third-generation gravitational-wave observatories of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Yann Gouttenoire , Géraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn

Junctions on cosmic string loops give rise to the proliferation of sharp kinks. We study the effect of this proliferation on the gravitational wave (GW) signals emitted from string networks with junctions, assuming a scaling solution. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-17 P. Binetruy , A. Bohe , T. Hertog , D. A. Steer

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

Convincing evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background has been found by the NANOGrav Collaboration in the 15-year data set. From this signal, we can evaluate the possibility of its source being from the early Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Chris Choi , Jacob Magallanes , Murman Gurgenidze , Tina Kahniashvili

Metastable cosmic strings provide a minimal and predictive origin for the stochastic gravitational-wave background reported by Pulsar Timing Array experiments. We analyse this possibility in electroweak-like dark sectors with a single-stage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-09 James Ingoldby , Valentin V. Khoze , Jessica Turner