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Stellar core collapse events are expected to produce gravitational waves via several mechanisms, most of which are not yet fully understood due to the current limitations in the numerical simulations of these events. In this paper, we begin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kyle Crocker , Tanner Prestegard , Vuk Mandic , Tania Regimbau , Keith Olive , Elisabeth Vangioni

A gravitational wave background is expected to emerge from the superposition of numerous gravitational wave sources of both astrophysical and cosmological origin. A number of cosmological models can have a parity violation, resulting in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Charles Badger , Mairi Sakellariadou

Gravitational Wave Astronomy is becoming a reality as Earth-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors reach the design sensitivities and move towards advanced configurations that may lead to gravitational-wave detections in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Carlos F. Sopuerta

The angular correlation of pulsar residuals observed by NANOGrav and other pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations show evidence in support of the Hellings-Downs correlation expected from stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-03 Debtosh Chowdhury , Arpan Hait , Subhendra Mohanty , Suraj Prakash

We demonstrate that the recently announced signal for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from pulsar timing array (PTA) observations, if attributed to new physics, is compatible with primordial GW production due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Caner Unal , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Ippei Obata

Recent pulsar timing array results, including the NANOGrav 15-year data set, show evidence for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) in the nanohertz band. We present a Bayesian framework to compare three possible origins: (i) a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Mengshen Wang , Zuocheng Zhang , Hua Xu

The detection of compact binary mergers with sub-solar masses at gravitational-wave observatories could mark the groundbreaking discovery of primordial black holes (PBHs). Concurrently, evidence for a nHz stochastic gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Yann Gouttenoire , Sokratis Trifinopoulos , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

In this paper, we investigate the nano-Hertz gravitational waves (GWs) emission and the massive primordial black holes (PBHs) formation from the light QCD axion scenario. We consider the axion domain walls formation from the level crossing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Hai-Jun Li , Yu-Feng Zhou

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

Pulsar-timing collaborations have recently reported evidence for the detection of an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background consistent with one sourced by a population of inspiralling supermassive black hole binaries. However, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-09 Neha Anil Kumar , Mesut Çalışkan , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski , Lingyuan Ji

By performing two-dimensional special relativistic (SR) magnetohydrodynamic simulations, we study possible signatures of gravitational waves (GWs) in the context of the collapsar model for long-duration gamma-ray bursts. In our SR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Seiji Harikae

Gravitational waves (GWs) induce correlated perturbations to the arrival times of pulses from an array of galactic millisecond pulsars. The expected correlations, obtained by averaging over many pairs of pulsars having the same angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Deepali Agarwal , Joseph D. Romano

In the nanohertz band, the spatial correlations in pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) produced by interfering gravitational waves (GWs) from multiple sources likely deviate from the traditional ones without interference under the assumption of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-01 Yu-Mei Wu , Yan-Chen Bi , Qing-Guo Huang

We summarize the theoretical framework of gravitational wave (GW) production by bulk fluid motion induced by expanding broken-phase bubbles during a first-order phase transition. Using a locally stationary unequal-time correlator (UETC) to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Isak Stomberg , Alberto Roper Pol

Motivated by the recent release of new results from five different pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments claiming to have found compelling evidence for primordial gravitational waves (GW) at nano-Hz frequencies, we consider the prospects of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Debasish Borah , Suruj Jyoti Das , Rome Samanta

Neutron stars emitting continuous gravitational waves may be regarded as gravitational pulsars, in the sense that it could be possible to track the evolution of their rotational period with long-baseline observations of next-generation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Marco Antonelli , Avishek Basu , Brynmor Haskell

Gravitational waves (GWs) emission due to magnetic deformation mechanism is applied for Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars(AXPs), described as fast-spinning and magnetized white dwarfs (WDs). The emission is caused by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Manoel F. Sousa , Jaziel G. Coelho , José C. N. de Araujo

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

Rotations of axion fields in the early universe can produce dark matter and the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. We point out that the rotation can generate an observable amount of a stochastic gravitational-wave (GW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-01 Keisuke Harigaya , Keisuke Inomata , Takahiro Terada

Pulsar Timing Arrays are a prime tool to study unexplored astrophysical regimes with gravitational waves. Here we show that the detection of gravitational radiation from individually resolvable super-massive black hole binary systems can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-24 C. M. F. Mingarelli , K. Grover , T. Sidery , R. J. E. Smith , A. Vecchio