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Primordial non-Gaussianities of the scalar(tensor)-tensor-tensor type supporting a non-trivial squeezed component are known to induce anisotropies in the stochastic gravitational wave background. We derive the explicit form of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-23 Ema Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Lucas Pinol

The temporal dependence of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background (SGWB) in the hecto-hertz band brings a unique avenue to identify multi-messenger signals to these sources by using coincident detection in both GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-28 Hardik Jitendra Kuralkar , Mohit Raj Sah , Suvodip Mukherjee

One of the primary targets of third-generation (3G) ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors is detecting the stochastic GW background (SGWB) from early universe processes. The astrophysical foreground from compact binary mergers will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-12 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

The paucity of observed supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) may imply that the gravitational wave background (GWB) from this population is anisotropic, rendering existing analyses sub-optimal. We present the first constraints on the…

We study the scalar stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from astrophysical sources, including compact binary mergers and stellar collapses, in the Bras-Dicke theory of gravity. By contrast to tensor waves, we found the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-04 Song Ming Du

The sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors is characterized by their noise curves, which determine the detector's reach and ability to measure the parameters of astrophysical sources accurately. The detector noise is typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sumit Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

Astrometry holds the potential for testing fundamental physics through the effects of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) in the $\sim 1-100$ nHz frequency band on precision measurements of stellar positions. Such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden , Sam S. C. Wong

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

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

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated by black hole-black hole (BH-BH) hyperbolic encounters with eccentricities close to one and compare them with the respective sensitivity curves of planned GW detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Morteza Kerachian , Sajal Mukherjee , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Sanjit Mitra

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from eccentric stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) holds crucial clues to their origins. For the first time, we employ a Bayesian framework to assess the detectability and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , Yi-Ming Hu

We estimate the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background signal from the field population of coalescing binary stellar mass black holes (BHs) throughout the Universe. This study is motivated by recent observations of BH-Wolf-Rayet star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-15 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Howell , Tania Regimbau , David Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Pulsar timing arrays' hint for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) leverages the expectations of a future detection in the millihertz band, particularly with the LISA space mission. However, finding an SGWB with a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolaos Karnesis , Quentin Baghi , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Nikiforos Galanis

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 present a maximum-likelihood analysis for estimating the angular distribution of power in an anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using ground-based laser interferometers. The standard isotropic and gravitational-wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Eric Thrane , Stefan Ballmer , Joseph D. Romano , Sanjit Mitra , Dipongkar Talukder , Sukanta Bose , Vuk Mandic

The anisotropies of the Cosmological Gravitational Wave Background (CGWB) retain information about the primordial mechanisms that source the gravitational waves and about the geometry and the particle content of the universe at early times.…

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

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are currently the only experiments directly sensitive to gravitational waves with decade-long periods. Within the next five to ten years, PTAs are expected to detect the stochastic gravitational-wave background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Tristan L. Smith , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

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
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