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The recent stochastic signal observed jointly by NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA can be accounted for by scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs). The source of the SIGWs is from the primordial curvature perturbations, and the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-11 Qin Fei

Numerical relativity simulations are crucial for studying black holes and have been instrumental in the detection of gravitational waves by the LVK. However, these simulations produce vast amounts of data that must be processed in order to…

We present PyWiFeS, a new Python-based data reduction pipeline for the Wide Field Spectrograph (WiFeS). PyWiFeS consists of a series of core data processing routines built on standard scientific Python packages commonly used in astronomical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Michael J. Childress , Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Jon Nielsen , Robert G. Sharp

Pulsar timing arrays are sensitive to low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs), which induce correlated changes in millisecond pulsars' timing residuals. PTA collaborations around the world have recently announced evidence of a nanohertz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Shashwat C. Sardesai , Joseph Simon , Sarah J. Vigeland

The recently released data by pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have amassed substantial evidence corroborating the existence of a stochastic signal consistent with a gravitational-wave background at frequencies around the nanohertz…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 Lang Liu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

The stochastic gravitational wave background is a broadband target from diverse astrophysical and cosmological sources. The background falls within the mHz frequency band could become a potential observable for future space-based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yang Jiang , Qing-Guo Huang

We forecast high-frequency gravitational wave (GW) from preheating hosting gravitational dark matter (GDM) as the indirect probe of such GDM. We use proper lattice simulations to handle resonance, and to solve GW equation of motion with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-15 Ruopeng Zhang , Sibo Zheng

Induced gravitational waves provide a powerful probe of primordial perturbations in the early universe through their distinctive spectral properties. We analyze the spectral energy density $\Omega_{\text{GW}}$ of gravitational waves induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Chang Han , Zu-Cheng Chen , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

The energy density spectrum is an observable of gravitational waves. Divergence has appeared in the energy density spectra of the scalar induced gravitational waves for different gauge fixings. To resolve the discrepancy, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

At second-order, scalar perturbations can source traceless and transverse perturbations to the metric, called induced gravitational waves (IGW). The apparent gauge-dependence of the IGW obscures the interpretation of the stochastic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 James Gurian , Donghui Jeong , Jai-chan Hwang , Hyerim Noh

Primordial gravitational waves on small scales are not tightly constrained by current cosmological observations, which allows for the possibility of large amplitudes at small scales. We investigate second-order tensor induced gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Fei-Yu Chen , Jing-Zhi Zhou , Di Wu , Zhi-Chao Li , Peng-Yu Wu

We develop an open-source python workflow package, $py$GWBSE to perform automated first-principles calculations within the GW-BSE (Bethe-Salpeter) framework. GW-BSE is a many body perturbation theory based approach to explore the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-06 Tathagata Biswas , Arunima K. Singh

The Schrieffer-Wolff transformation (SWT) is a foundational perturbative method for deriving effective Hamiltonians in quantum systems by systematically eliminating couplings between pairs of energy distant subspaces. Despite recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Giovanni Francesco Diotallevi , Leander Reascos , Mónica Benito

We introduce SeismoStats, a Python package that enables essential statistical seismology analyses, with a focus on well-established methods. The package provides user-friendly tools to download and manipulate earthquake catalogs, but also…

We provide a review on the state-of-the-art of gravitational waves induced by primordial fluctuations, so-called induced gravitational waves. We present the intuitive physics behind induced gravitational waves and we revisit and unify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech

Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. P. Ratnasingam , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

An important step in the planning of future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and of the networks they will form is the estimation of their detection and parameter-estimation capabilities, which is the basis of science-case studies. Several…

Space-based gravitational wave detectors such as TianQin, LISA, and TaiJi have the potential to outperform themselves through joint observation. To achieve this, it is desirable to practice joint data analysis in advance on simulated data…

Cosmological gravitational wave backgrounds (CGWBs) are the conglomeration of unresolved gravitational wave signals from early Universe sources, which make them a promising tool for cosmologists. Because gravitons decouple from the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Tatsuya Daniel , Marcell Howard , Morgane König