English
Related papers

Related papers: Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds: Current…

200 papers

The astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) originates from the mergers of compact binary objects that are otherwise undetected as individual events, along with other sources such as supernovae, magnetars, etc. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Mohit Raj Sah , Suvodip Mukherjee

A likely source of a gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the frequency band of the Advanced LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors is the superposition of signals from the population of unresolvable stellar-mass binary-black-hole (BBH) mergers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Jessica Lawrence , Kevin Turbang , Andrew Matas , Arianna I. Renzini , Nick van Remortel , Joseph D. Romano

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is one of the main detection targets for future millihertz space-borne gravitational-wave observatories such as the \ac{LISA}, TianQin, and Taiji. For a single LISA-like detector, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Jun Cheng , En-Kun Li , Jianwei Mei

Stochastic gravitational waves (GW) associated with unresolved astrophysical sources at frequency bands of the ongoing GW interferometers LIGO/VIRGO and LISA are studied. We show that GW noise from rotating galactic neutron stars with low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov

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

Pulsar timing experiments are reaching sufficient sensitivity to detect a postulated stochastic gravitational wave background generated by merging supermassive black hole systems in the cores of galaxies. We describe the techniques behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Hobbs

Superposition of unresolved sources of gravitational waves (GW) is expected to create a persistent background of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Different types of astrophysical and cosmological sources are however likely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-11 Abhishek Parida , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra , Sanjay Jhingan

Future missions of gravitational-wave astronomy will be operated by space-based interferometers, covering very wide range of frequency. Search for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) is one of the main targets for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya , Takashi Hiramatsu , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Identifying the anisotropies in a cosmologically sourced stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) would be of significance in shedding light on the nature of primordial inhomogeneities. For example, if SGWB carries isocurvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-18 Yanou Cui , Soubhik Kumar , Raman Sundrum , Yuhsin Tsai

The stochastic gravitational wave background in the mHz band is a key target for future spaceborne interferometers. Detecting such a signal presents multiple challenges for data processing, especially complicated by the presence of numerous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

Stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves (GWs) from the pre-BBN era offer a unique opportunity to probe the universe beyond what has already been achieved with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). If the source is short in duration,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-13 Joshua Berger , Amit Bhoonah , Biswajit Padhi

We propose a data processing technique that allows searches for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation with data from a single detector. Our technique exploits the difference between the coherence time of the gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-22 Massimo Tinto , J. W. Armstrong

We estimate the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from all stellar core-collapse events in the universe based on the gravitational-wave signal predictions of recent numerical simulations. We focus on waveforms from slowly or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Bella Finkel , Haakon Andresen , Vuk Mandic

We discuss the detection of gravitational-wave backgrounds in the context of Bayesian inference and suggest a practical definition of what it means for a signal to be considered stochastic---namely, that the Bayesian evidence favors a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-12 Neil J. Cornish , Joseph D. Romano

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

Since the first detection of gravitational-wave (GW), GW150914, September 14th 2015, the multi-messenger astronomy added a new way of observing the Universe together with electromagnetic (EM) waves and neutrinos. After two years, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Pil-Jong Jung , Keun-Young Kim , Young-Min Kim , John J. Oh , Sang Hoon Oh , Edwin J. Son

A gravitational wave stochastic background of astrophysical origin may have resulted from the superposition of a large number of unresolved sources since the beginning of stellar activity. Its detection would put very strong constrains on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tania Regimbau

High frequency gravitational waves (HFGWs) are predicted in various exotic scenarios involving both cosmological and astrophysical sources. These elusive signals have recently sparked the interest of a diverse community of researchers, due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-17 Claudio Gatti , Luca Visinelli , Michael Zantedeschi

We consider an anisotropic search for the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background by decomposing the gravitational-wave sky into its spherical harmonics components. Previous analyses have used the diffraction limit to define the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Erik Floden , Vuk Mandic , Andrew Matas , Leo Tsukada

On a time scale of years to decades, gravitational wave (GW) astronomy will become a reality. Low frequency (nanoHz) GWs are detectable through long-term timing observations of the most stable pulsars. Radio observatories worldwide are…