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The recent astronomical milestone by the pulsar timing arrays (PTA) has revealed galactic-size gravitational waves (GW) in the form of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB), correlating the radio pulses emitted by millisecond…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

The power-law parametrization for the energy density spectrum of gravitational wave (GW) background is a useful tool to study its physics and origin. While scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) from some particular models fit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Zhu Yi , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yue Wang , Fengge Zhang

The NANOGrav Collaboration recently reported a strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process in the pulsar-timing data. We evaluate the evidence of interpreting this process as mergers of super massive black hole binaries and/or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Liu , Xing-Yu Yang , Ruiyu Zhou

The advent of time domain astronomy is revolutionizing our understanding of the Universe. Programs such as the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) or the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) surveyed millions of objects for several years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 A. Sesana , Z. Haiman , B. Kocsis , L. Z. Kelley

Evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) signal has emerged in pulsar timing array (PTA) data, opening a new window into the nanoHz GW Universe. We explore the physics of GW signals potentially explaining the data, with a primary focus on GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Alberto Sesana , Daniel G. Figueroa

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments worldwide recently reported evidence of a nHz stochastic gravitational wave background (sGWB) compatible with the existence of slowly inspiralling massive black hole (MBH) binaries (MBHBs). The shape of…

We consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by a network of cosmic strings and assess their accessibility to current and planned gravitational wave detectors, as well as to big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xavier Siemens , Vuk Mandic , Jolien Creighton

We compute the contribution of kinks on cosmic string loops to stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGW).We find that kinks contribute at the same order as cusps to the SBGW.We discuss the accessibility of the total background due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 S. Olmez , V. Mandic , X. Siemens

The formation and growth processes of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are not well constrained. SMBH population models, however, provide specific predictions for the properties of the gravitational-wave background (GWB) from binary SMBHs…

The direct detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) by Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) is very likely within the next decade. While the stochastic GW background is a promising candidate for detection it is also possible that single resolvable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Justin Ellis

As one of the detection targets of all gravitational wave detectors at present, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides us an important way to understand the evolution of our universe. In this paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li , He Wang

The millisecond pulsars, old-recycled objects spinning with high frequency $\mathcal{O}$ (kHz) sustaining the deformation from their spherical shape, may emit gravitational waves (GW). These are one of the potential candidates contributing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-18 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Vuk Mandic , Andrew Matas , Tania Regimbau

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) might detect gravitational waves (GWs) from massive black hole (MBH) binaries within this decade. The signal is expected to be an incoherent superposition of several nearly-monochromatic waves of different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Antoine Petiteau , Stanislav Babak , Alberto Sesana , Mariana de Araujo

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) and Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA) collaborations have measured a low-frequency common signal in the combination of their second and first data releases respectively, with the correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-17 J. Antoniadis , P. Arumugam , S. Arumugam , P. Auclair , S. Babak , M. Bagchi , A. -S. Bak Nielsen , E. Barausse , C. G. Bassa , A. Bathula , A. Berthereau , M. Bonetti , E. Bortolas , P. R. Brook , M. Burgay , R. N. Caballero , C. Caprini , A. Chalumeau , D. J. Champion , S. Chanlaridis , S. Chen , I. Cognard , M. Crisostomi , S. Dandapat , D. Deb , S. Desai , G. Desvignes , N. Dhanda-Batra , C. Dwivedi , M. Falxa , F. Fastidio , R. D. Ferdman , A. Franchini , J. R. Gair , B. Goncharov , A. Gopakumar , E. Graikou , J. -M. Grießmeier , A. Gualandris , L. Guillemot , Y. J. Guo , Y. Gupta , S. Hisano , H. Hu , F. Iraci , D. Izquierdo-Villalba , J. Jang , J. Jawor , G. H. Janssen , A. Jessner , B. C. Joshi , F. Kareem , R. Karuppusamy , E. F. Keane , M. J. Keith , D. Kharbanda , T. Khizriev , T. Kikunaga , N. Kolhe , M. Kramer , M. A. Krishnakumar , K. Lackeos , K. J. Lee , K. Liu , Y. Liu , A. G. Lyne , J. W. McKee , Y. Maan , R. A. Main , M. B. Mickaliger , H. Middleton , A. Neronov , I. C. Nitu , K. Nobleson , A. K. Paladi , A. Parthasarathy , B. B. P. Perera , D. Perrodin , A. Petiteau , N. K. Porayko , A. Possenti , T. Prabu , K. Postnov , H. Quelquejay Leclere , P. Rana , A. Roper Pol , A. Samajdar , S. A. Sanidas , D. Semikoz , A. Sesana , G. Shaifullah , J. Singha , C. Smarra , L. Speri , R. Spiewak , A. Srivastava , B. W. Stappers , D. A. Steer , M. Surnis , S. C. Susarla , A. Susobhanan , K. Takahashi , P. Tarafdar , G. Theureau , C. Tiburzi , R. J. Truant , E. van der Wateren , S. Valtolina , A. Vecchio , V. Venkatraman Krishnan , J. P. W. Verbiest , J. Wang , L. Wang , Z. Wu

Gravitational wave (GW) searches using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are commonly assumed to be limited to a GW frequency of $\lesssim 4\times 10^{-7}$Hz given by the Nyquist rate associated with the average observational cadence of $2$ weeks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Xuan Tao , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are binary systems formed by black holes with mass exceeding millions of solar masses, expected to form and evolve in the nuclei of galaxies. The extreme compact nature of such objects determines a loud…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Matteo Bonetti , Alessia Franchini , Bruno Giovanni Galuzzi , Alberto Sesana

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from eccentric stellar-mass binary black holes (SBBHs) holds crucial clues to their origins. For the first time, we employ a Bayesian framework to assess the detectability and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Zheng-Cheng Liang , Zhi-Yuan Li , Yi-Ming Hu

Several pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments such as NANOGrav and PPTA recently reported evidence of a gravitational wave (GW) background at nano-Hz frequency band. This signal can originate from scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Junsong Cang , Yu Gao , Yiming Liu , Sichun Sun

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by merging neutron stars exhibits a peak in the kHz band. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to exploit this distinctive feature through a Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giulia Capurri , Andrea Lapi , Mario Spera , Carlo Baccigalupi