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The strong beams of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) emitted by cusps and kinks of cosmic strings are studied in detail. As a consequence of these beams, the stochastic ensemble of GW's generated by a cosmological network of…

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The cosmic string contributes to our understanding and revelation of the fundamental structure and evolutionary patterns of the universe, unifying our knowledge of the cosmos and unveiling new physical laws and phenomena. Therefore, we…

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The Macquart relation and time-delay cosmography are now two promising ways to fast radio burst (FRB) cosmology. In this work, we propose a joint method that combines strongly lensed and unlensed FRBs for improving cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Ji-Guo Zhang , Yi-Fan Jiang , Ze-Wei Zhao , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We constrain the cosmological density of cosmic string loops using two observational signatures -- gravitational microlensing and the Kaiser-Stebbins effect. Photometry from RXTE and CoRoT space missions and pulsar timing from Parkes Pulsar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 M. S. Pshirkov , A. V. Tuntsov

The existence of cosmic superstrings may be probed by astronomical time domain surveys. When crossing the line of sight to point-like sources, strings produce a distinctive microlensing signature. We consider two avenues to hunt for a relic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-14 David F. Chernoff , Ariel Goobar , Janina J. Renk

It has been suggested that cosmic strings produced at a phase transition in the early universe can be the origin of the extremely high energy cosmic rays (EHCR) observed by AGASA above 10^20 eV. Superheavy cosmic strings with linear mass…

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is currently an open question with several proposed sources and corresponding mechanisms for their production. Among them are compact binary coalescences (CBCs) that also generate gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Soummyadip Basak , Parameswaran Ajith , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar

ABSRACT: We review recent progress on testing the hypothesis of the existence of cosmic string perturbations in microwave background maps. Using an analytical model for the string network we show that the predicted amplitude and spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Leandros Perivolaropoulos , Richhild Moessner , Robert Brandenberger

Cosmic string networks offer one of the best prospects for detection of cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The combined incoherent GW emission of a large number of string loops leads to a stochastic GW background (SGWB), which encodes…

We consider the gravitational lensing produced by long cosmic strings formed in a GUT scale phase transition. We derive a formula for the deflection of photons which pass near the strings that reduces to an integral over the light cone…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew A. de Laix

We present a framework for detecting gravitational-wave signals lensed by cosmic strings (CSs), addressing a key gap in current searches. CSs, whose detection would provide a unique probe of high-energy physics and the early Universe,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Oleg Bulashenko , Nino Villanueva , Roberto Bada Nerin , José A. Font

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) represent an exciting frontier in the study of gravitational lensing, due to their brightness, extragalactic nature, and the compact, coherent characteristics of their emission. In a companion work [Kader,…

Fast cosmological transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) represent a class of sources more compact than any other cosmological object. As such they are sensitive to significant magnification via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Mawson W. Sammons , Clancy W. James , Cathryn M. Trott , Mark Walker

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are bright radio transients with millisecond duration at cosmological distances. Since compact dark matter/objects (COs) could act as lenses and cause split of this kind of very short duration signals,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Kai Liao , S. -B. Zhang , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao

High redshift Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are expected to be extremely powerful probes of our Universe. However, while a significant number of FRBs are expected to exist at high redshift, detecting them has been difficult, with only a handful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Mawson W Sammons , Evan Davies-Velie , Matt Dobbs , Zarif Kader , Seth R. Siegel , Jonathan Sievers

In this paper we study the footprint of cosmic string as the topological defects in the very early universe on the cosmic microwave background radiation. We develop the method of level crossing analysis in the context of the well-known…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 M. Sadegh Movahed , Shahram Khosravi

Cosmic strings are predicted to form kinks and cusps that travel along the string at close to the speed of light. These disturbances are radiated away as highly beamed gravitational waves that produce a burst like pulse as the cone of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

We propose Fast Radio Burst (FRB) timing, which uses the precision measurements of the arrival time differences of repeated FRB signals along multiple sightlines, as a new probe of gravitational waves (GWs) around nHz to $\mu$Hz…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Zhiyao Lu , Lian-Tao Wang , Huangyu Xiao

Pulsar timing data used to provide upper limits on a possible stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). However, the NANOGrav Collaboration has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process, which we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 John Ellis , Marek Lewicki

We explore the use of random forest and gradient boosting, two powerful tree-based machine learning algorithms, for the detection of cosmic strings in maps of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), through their unique Gott-Kaiser-Stebbins…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-12 A. Vafaei Sadr , M. Farhang , S. M. S. Movahed , B. Bassett , M. Kunz