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In June 2023, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations provided evidence for the existence of a stochastic gravitational wave background. Scalar induced gravitational waves (SIGWs), as one of the most likely sources of stochastic…

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Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

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A variety of mechanisms in the early Universe lead to the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). We introduce here a novel source of GWs generated by vacuum fluctuations after inflation. Given that gravitons are minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Alina Mierna , Gabriele Perna , Sabino Matarrese , Nicola Bartolo , Angelo Ricciardone

Global cosmic strings are generically predicted in particle physics beyond the Standard Model, e.g., a post-inflationary global $U(1)$ symmetry breaking which may associate with axion-like dark matter. We demonstrate that although…

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As of now, all analogue gravity models available in the literature deal with the emergence of an acoustic geometry through linear perturbations of transonic fluids only. It has never been investigated whether the analogue gravity phenomena…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Karan Fernandes , Susovan Maity , Tapas K. Das

Standard perturbative calculations of scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) have neglected nonperturbative effects in the large-amplitude regime. We develop a hybrid numerical framework to signify nonperturbative effects on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Zhuan Ning , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Xiang-Xi Zeng , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

In this work we highlight an important perspective for the complete understanding of the stochastic gravitational background structure. The stochastic gravitational wave background is perhaps the most important current and future tool…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-02 S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

Spectra of the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmic strings are calculated and compared with present and future experimental limits. Background spectra are calculated numerically for dimensionless string tensions G mu/c^2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew R. DePies , Craig J. Hogan

The initial conditions on the anisotropies of the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin (CGWB) largely depend on the mechanism that generates the gravitational waves. Since the CGWB is expected to be non-thermal,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi , Alina Mierna , Sabino Matarrese , Angelo Ricciardone

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is a rich resource of cosmological information, encoded both in its source statistics and anisotropies induced by propagation effects. We provide a theoretical description of it, without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Alice Garoffolo

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave production from Affleck-Dine condensate fragmentation in the early universe, focusing on an effective potential with a logarithmic mass correction that typically arises in gravity mediated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Shuang-Yong Zhou

Recent Advanced LIGO detections of binary black hole mergers have prompted multiple studies investigating the possibility that the heavy GW150914 binary system was of primordial origin, and hence could be evidence for dark matter in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Vuk Mandic , Simeon Bird , Ilias Cholis

We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yosef Zlochower , Roberto Gomez , Sascha Husa , Luis Lehner , Jeffrey Winicour

A large primordial density perturbation of the Hubble scale will gravitationally collapse, generating an outgoing sound shell, whether or not a primordial black hole (PBH) is formed. In this Letter, we report a hybrid numerical analysis of…

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The analysis of how a stochastic background of gravitational radiation interacts with a spherical detector is given in detail, which leads to explicit expressions for the system response functions, as well as for the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Alberto Lobo , Alvaro Montero

Detection of a gravitational-wave signal of non-astrophysical origin would be a landmark discovery, potentially providing a significant clue to some of our most basic, big-picture scientific questions about the Universe. In this white…

We study the possibility that particle production during inflation could source observable gravity waves on scales relevant for Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. A crucial constraint on such scenarios arises because particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Neil Barnaby , Jordan Moxon , Ryo Namba , Marco Peloso , Gary Shiu , Peng Zhou

The detection of a stochastic background of low-frequency gravitational waves by pulsar-timing and astrometric surveys will enable tests of gravitational theories beyond general relativity. These theories generally permit gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Wenzer Qin , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

The epoch when the Universe had a temperature higher than a GeV is long before any time at which we have reliable observations constraining the cosmological evolution. For example, the occurrence of a second burst of inflation (sometimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis E Mendes , Andrew R Liddle

We propose a novel mechanism where a first-order phase transition modulates the decay rate of a massive field. This modulation, even if the scalar field has negligible energy density, subsequently generates an observable stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai