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With the growing number of gravitational-wave detections, particularly from binary black hole mergers, there is increasing anticipation that an astrophysical background, formed by an ensemble of faint, high-redshift events, will be observed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Xiaolin Liu , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

Detecting stochastic background radiation of cosmological origin is an exciting possibility for current and future gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. However, distinguishing it from other stochastic processes, such as instrumental noise and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-28 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

A gravitational wave stochastic background of astrophysical origin may have resulted from the superposition of a large number of unresolved sources since the beginning of stellar activity. Its detection would put very strong constrains on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tania Regimbau

Gravitational waves modulate the apparent frequencies of other periodic signals. Low-frequency gravitational waves could therefore be detected by observing frequency modulations in signals from higher-frequency sources, e.g., those from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-09 Jakob Stegmann , Sander M. Vermeulen

These lecture notes provide a brief introduction to methods used to search for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation -- a superposition of gravitational-wave signals that are either too weak or too numerous to individually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Joseph D. Romano

Low-frequency gravitational-wave astronomy can perform precision tests of general relativity and probe fundamental physics in a regime previously inaccessible. A space-based detector will be a formidable tool to explore gravity's role in…

Astrometry, the precise measurement of stellar positions and velocities, offers a promising approach to probing the low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). Notably, astrometric vector sky maps are sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Santiago Jaraba , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Qiuyue Liang , Meng-Xiang Lin , Mark Trodden

Arrays of precisely-timed millisecond pulsars are used to search for gravitational waves with periods of months to decades. Gravitational waves affect the path of radio pulses propagating from a pulsar to Earth, causing the arrival times of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Stephen R. Taylor

The recent compelling observation of the nanohertz stochastic gravitational wave background has brought to light a new galactic arena to test gravity. In this paper, we derive a formula for the most general expression of the stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-12 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Guo-Chin Liu , Kin-Wang Ng

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

The direct detection of gravitational waves by ground-based optical interferometers has opened a new window in astronomy. Nevertheless, as these detectors are a combination of two Michelson-Morley like baselines, their sensitivity for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-25 Mariateresa Crosta , Mario G. Lattanzi , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Mario Gai , Qi Zhaoxiang , Alberto Vecchiato

We discuss prospects for direct measurement of stochastic gravitational wave background around 0.1-1Hz with future space missions. It is assumed to use correlation analysis technique with the optimal TDI variables for two sets of LISA-type…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto

Superposition of gravitational waves generated by astrophysical sources is expected to give rise to the stochastic gravitational-wave background. We focus on the background generated by the ring-down of black holes produced in the stellar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-16 K. Crocker , V. Mandic , T. Regimbau , K. Belczynski , W. Gladysz , K. Olive , T. Prestegard , E. Vangioni

We review the motivations for the search of stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves and we compare the experimental sensitivities that can be reached in the near future with the existing bounds and with the theoretical predictions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michele Maggiore

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stochastic gravitational wave signal appears as an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Neil J. Cornish , Laura M. Sampson

Gravitational waves are a radically new way to peer into the darkest depths of the cosmos. Pulsars can be used to make direct detections of gravitational waves through precision timing. When a gravitational wave passes between a pulsar and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-28 Stephen R. Taylor

Pulsar timing, i.e. the analysis of the arrival times of pulses from a pulsar, is a powerful tool in modern astrophysics. It allows us to measure the time delays of an electromagnetic signal caused by a number of physical processes as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Konstantin A. Postnov , Nataliya K. Porayko , Maxim S. Pshirkov

The stability of the spin of pulsars and the precision with which these spins can be determined, allows many unique tests of interest to physics and astrophysics. Perhaps the most challenging and revolutionary of these, is the detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 Joris P. W. Verbiest , Sarah J. Vigeland , Nataliya K. Porayko , Siyuan Chen , Daniel J. Reardon

We review detection methods that are currently in use or have been proposed to search for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. We consider both Bayesian and frequentist searches using ground-based and space-based laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-11 Joseph D. Romano , Neil J. Cornish

We estimate the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from all stellar core-collapse events in the universe based on the gravitational-wave signal predictions of recent numerical simulations. We focus on waveforms from slowly or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Bella Finkel , Haakon Andresen , Vuk Mandic