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Context: Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic extragalactic bursts whose properties are still largely unknown, but based on their extremely small time duration, they are proposed to have a compact structure, making them candidates for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Goureesankar Sathyanathan , Calvin Leung , Olaf Wucknitz , Prasenjit Saha

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed and probably extragalactic radio flashes with millisecond-duration. Recently, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (using the CHIME/FRB instrument) has reported detections of 13…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Bin Liu , Zhengxiang Li , He Gao , Zong-Hong Zhu

Highly beamed, short-duration electromagnetic bursts could be produced by superconducting cosmic string (SCS) loops oscillating in cosmic magnetic fields. We demonstrated that the basic characteristics of SCS bursts such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yun-Wei Yu , Kwong-Sang Cheng , Gary Shiu , Henry Tye

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are very short and bright transients visible over extragalactic distances. The radio pulse undergoes dispersion caused by free electrons along the line of sight, most of which are associated with the large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Steffen Hagstotz , Robert Reischke , Robert Lilow

Cosmic strings play a crucial role in enhancing our understanding of the fundamental structure and evolution of the universe, unifying our knowledge of cosmology, and potentially unveiling new physical laws and phenomena. The advent and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-07 Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Nan Yang , Jin Li , Brendan McCane , Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Minghui Zhang , Yan Meng

We study future observational constraints on cosmic string parameters from various types of next-generation experiments: direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs), pulsar timing array, and the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Koichi Miyamoto , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Keitaro Takahashi , Joseph Silk

Rapid advancement in the observation of cosmic strings has been made in recent years placing increasingly stringent constraints on their properties, with $G\mu\lesssim 10^{-11}$ from Pulsar Timing Array (PTA). Cosmic string loops with low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Zimu Khakhaleva-Li , Craig J. Hogan

The unique, conical spacetime created by cosmic strings brings about distinctive gravitational lensing phenomena. The variety of these distinctive phenomena is increased when the strings have non-trivial mutual interactions. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Benjamin Shlaer , Mark Wyman

We examine the spectrum of gravitational radiation emitted by a network of cosmic strings, with emphasis on the observational constraints and the opportunities for detection. The analysis improves over past work, as we use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 R. R. Caldwell , R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

The gravitational field of compact objects, such as primordial black holes, can create multiple images of background sources. For transients such as fast radio bursts (FRBs), these multiple images can be resolved in the time domain. Under…

The possibility to detect cosmic strings -- topological defects of early Universe, by means of wave effects in gravitational lensing is discussed. To find the optimal observation conditions, we define the hyperbolic-shaped Fresnel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 Isabel Fernández-Núñez , Oleg Bulashenko

Plasma lenses in the host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) can strongly modulate FRB amplitudes for a wide range of distances, including the $\sim $ Gpc distance of the repeater FRB121102. To produce caustics, the lens'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 J. M. Cordes , I. Wasserman , J. W. T. Hessels , T. J. W. Lazio , S. Chatterjee , R. S. Wharton

Although cosmic string scenario for galaxy formation is disfavored by CMB data, it is of great interest in the generation of cosmic gravitational-wave background. This research aims to develop an algorithm to extract cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-20 Alf Tang , Timothy J. Sumner

We discuss possible electromagnetic signals accompanying Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) that are expected in the scenario where FRBs originate in neutron star magnetospheres. For models involving Crab-like giant pulses, no appreciable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Maxim Lyutikov , Duncan R. Lorimer

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious extragalactic radio signals. Revealing their origin is one of the central foci in modern astronomy. Previous studies suggest that occurrence rates of non-repeating and repeating FRBs could be…

Cosmic string cusps are sources of short-lived, linearly polarised gravitational wave bursts which can be searched for in gravitational wave detectors. We assess the capability of LISA to detect these bursts using the latest LISA…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Pierre Auclair , Stanislav Babak , Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere , Danièle A. Steer

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

The possibility that a fraction of the dark matter is comprised of massive compact halo objects (MACHOs) remains unclear, especially in the 20-100 $M_{\odot}$ window. MACHOs could make up binaries, whose mergers may be detected by LIGO as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Y. K. Wang , F. Y. Wang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to measure cosmological parameters by employing the Macquart relation. However, at present, only a small number of FRB events are localized to host galaxies with known redshifts. Inspired by the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-26 Ze-Wei Zhao , Ji-Guo Zhang , Yichao Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The gravitational wave (GW) signals emitted by a network of cosmic strings are reexamined in view of the possible formation of a network of cosmic superstrings at the end of brane inflation. The reconnection probability $p$ of intersecting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Thibault Damour , Alexander Vilenkin