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We use direct numerical simulations of decaying primordial hydromagnetic turbulence with helicity to compute the resulting gravitational wave (GW) production and its degree of circular polarization. We find a clear dependence of the…

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Gravitational wave detection in space promises to open a new window in astronomy to study the strong field dynamics of gravitational physics in astrophysics and cosmology. The present article is an extract of a report on a feasibility study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Xuefei Gong , Shengnian Xu , Shanquan Gui , Shuanglin Huang , Yun-Kau Lau

Hydrodynamic turbulence driven by crust-core differential rotation imposes a fundamental noise floor on gravitational wave observations of neutron stars. The gravitational wave emission peaks at the Kolmogorov decoherence frequency which,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul D. Lasky , Mark F. Bennett , Andrew Melatos

Motivated by recent progress in our understanding of the $B$-mode polarization of cosmic microwave background (CMB), which provides important information about the inflationary gravitational waves (IGWs), we study the possibility to acquire…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryusuke Jinno , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

A world-wide array of highly sensitive interferometers stands poised to usher in a new era in astronomy with the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The data from these instruments will provide a unique perspective on extreme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Neil J. Cornish

A primordial spectrum of gravitational waves serves as a backlight to the relativistic degrees of freedom of the cosmological fluid. Any change in the particle physics content, due to a change of phase or freeze-out of a species, will leave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Robert R. Caldwell , Tristan L. Smith , Devin G. E. Walker

We develop a tool for the analysis of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmological first-order phase transitions with LISA: we initiate a template databank for these signals, prototype their searches, and forecast their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Marek Lewicki , Eric Madge , Marco Merchand , Germano Nardini , Mauro Pieroni , Alberto Roper Pol , Ville Vaskonen

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller

We discuss prospects for direct measurement of stochastic gravitational wave background around 0.1-1Hz with future space missions. It is assumed to use correlation analysis technique with the optimal TDI variables for two sets of LISA-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto

With a reinterpretation of recent results, the GRACE Follow-On mission can be applied to gravitational wave astronomy. Existing GRACE Follow-On data constrain the stochastic gravitational wave background to $\Omega_{GW}<3.3\times10^{7}$ at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 M. P. Ross , C. A. Hagedorn , E. A. Shaw , A. L. Lockwood , B. M. Iritani , J. G. Lee , K. Venkateswara , J. H. Gundlach

Just as big bang nucleosynthesis allows us to probe the expansion rate when the temperature of the universe was around 1 MeV, the measurement of gravity waves from electroweak scale first order phase transitions may allow us to probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Daniel J. H. Chung , Peng Zhou

We consider gravitational waves emitted by various populations of compact binaries at cosmological distances. We use population synthesis models to characterize the properties of double neutron stars, double black holes and double white…

We are witnessing the dawn of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. With currently available detectors, observations are restricted to GW frequencies in the range between ${\sim} 10\,\mathrm{Hz}$ and $10\,\mathrm{kHz}$, which covers the…

Gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale are detectable by future space-based detectors like LISA. The lifetime of the resulting shock waves plays an important role in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

Astrometry, the precise measurement of star motions, offers an alternative avenue to investigate low-frequency gravitational waves through the spatial deflection of photons, complementing pulsar timing arrays reliant on timing residuals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Mesut Çalışkan , Yifan Chen , Liang Dai , Neha Anil Kumar , Isak Stomberg , Xiao Xue

A significant fraction of gravitational-wave mergers are expected to be eccentric in the Laser-Interferometer-Space-Antenna (LISA) frequency band, $10^{-4} - 10^{-1}$ Hz. Several LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA events show potential hints of residual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Evgeni Grishin , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Alessandro A. Trani

We make forecasts for the impact a future "midband" space-based gravitational wave experiment, most sensitive to $10^{-2}- 10$ Hz, could have on potential detections of cosmological stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-30 Barry C. Barish , Simeon Bird , Yanou Cui

We show results for the expected reach of the network of experiments that is being set up globally with the aim of detecting the "invisible" axion, in light of a non-standard thermal history of the universe. Assuming that the axion is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Nicklas Ramberg , Luca Visinelli

A cosmological gravitational wave background resulting from space-time quantum perturbations at energy scales of $\sim 10^{15}$GeV is expected as a consequence of the general relativity theory in the context of the standard cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Soares-Santos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The detection of galactic binaries as sources of gravitational waves promises an unprecedented wealth of information about these systems, but also raises several challenges in signal processing. In particular the large number of expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 A. Blelly , J. Bobin , H. Moutarde