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This study, situated within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, employs wave optics methods to investigate the Einstein ring structure of quantum corrected AdS Reissner Nordstr$\ddot{o}$m black holes governed by Euler Heisenberg…

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We present the analytic forms for the spectra of the cosmological perturbations from an initially anisotropic universe for the high momentum modes in the context of WKB approximations, as the continuation of the work [29]. We consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Masato Minamitsuji

The specific astrophysical data collected during the last decade causes the need for the modification of the expression for the Einstein-Hilbert action, and several attempts sufficing this need are known. The modification suggested in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-04 Sergey Siparov , Nicoleta Brinzei

We present the results of simulated injections testing the first Bayesian search-pipeline capable of investigating the angular-structure of a gravitational-wave (GW) background influencing pulsar signals. A stochastic background of GWs from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-30 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair

Gravitational-wave black-hole spectroscopy provides a unique opportunity to test the strong-field regime of gravity and the nature of the final object formed in the aftermath of a merger. Here we investigate the prospects for black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Swetha Bhagwat , Costantino Pacilio , Paolo Pani , Michela Mapelli

Pulsar-timing arrays (PTAs) are seeking gravitational waves from supermassive-black-hole binaries, and there are prospects to complement these searches with stellar-astrometry measurements. Theorists still disagree, however, as to whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-19 Selim C. Hotinli , Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew H. Jaffe

Detection of a gravitational-wave stochastic background via ground or space-based gravitational-wave detectors requires the cross-correlation of the response of two or more independent detectors. The cross-correlation involves a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Lee Samuel Finn , Shane L. Larson , Joseph D. Romano

The astrophysical gravitational wave background in the nanohertz (nHz) band is expected to be primarily composed of the superposition of signals from binaries of supermassive black holes. The spatial discreteness of these sources introduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Martin Pijnenburg , Alberto Sesana

The reported evidence for an isotropic gravitational-wave background (GWB) from pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations has motivated searches for extrinsic and intrinsic anisotropies. Kinematic anisotropies may arise as a consequence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Maximilian Blümke , Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder , Deepali Agarwal , Joseph D. Romano

The Einstein Telescope is the next-generation gravitational wave interferometer which, compared to current detectors, will enable the observation of gravitational signals at lower frequencies with a sensitivity improved by approximately two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Federico Armato , Barbara Garaventa , Andrea Chincarini

Statistical anisotropy in the nanohertz-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB) is expected to be detected by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) in the near future. By developing a frequentist statistical framework that intrinsically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Nihan Pol , Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph D. Romano

A stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background consists of a large number of weak, independent and uncorrelated events of astrophysical or cosmological origin. The GW power on the sky is assumed to contain anisotropies on top of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-26 Liting Xiao , Arianna I. Renzini , Alan J. Weinstein

In this manuscript, we investigate the oscillatory behaviour of the anisotropy in the diagonal Bianchi-I spacetimes. Our starting point is a simplification of Einstein's equations using only observable or physical variables. As a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-02 Leandro G Gomes , Bruno B. Bizarria , Gabriel A. de Souza Silva , William O. Clavijo

The spatial and temporal discreteness of gravitational wave sources leads to shot noise that may, in some regimes, swamp any attempts at measuring the anisotropy of the gravitational wave background. Cross-correlating a gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 David Alonso , Giulia Cusin , Pedro G. Ferreira , Cyril Pitrou

We address the issue of finding an optimal detection method for a discontinuous or intermittent gravitational wave stochastic background. Such a signal might sound something like popcorn popping. We derive an appropriate version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan

Gravitational wave astrophysics has only just begun, and as current detectors are upgraded and new detectors are built, many new, albeit faint, features in the signals will become accessible. One such feature is the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-23 Katie Chamberlain , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Nicolas Yunes

Parity violating interactions in the early Universe can source a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with a net circular polarization. In this paper, we study possible ways to search for circular polarization of the SGWB with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Valerie Domcke , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Lorenzo Sorbo , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The Gaia mission offers a new opportunity to search for the low frequency gravitational wave background using astrometric measurements. In this paper, the astrometric effect of gravitational waves is reviewed, with a particular focus on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Deyan P. Mihaylov , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Anthony Lasenby , Gerard Gilmore

The analysis of pulsar timing array data has provided evidence for a gravitational wave background in the nanohertz band. This raises the question of what is the source of the signal, is it astrophysical or cosmological in origin? If the…

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