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Curvature perturbations induce gravitational waves (GWs) at second order, contributing to the stochastic gravitational wave background. The resulting gravitational wave spectrum is sensitive to the evolutionary history of the universe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Matthew Pearce , Lauren Pearce , Graham White , Csaba Balázs

The Cosmic Gravitational Wave Background (CGWB) is an irreducible background of gravitational waves generated by particle exchange in the early Universe plasma. Standard Model particles contribute to such a stochastic background with a peak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo , Andreas Schachner , Gonzalo Villa

We study the production of stochastic gravitational wave background from early dark energy (EDE) model. It is caused by resonant amplification of scalar field fluctuations, which easily takes place for typical EDE potential based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-30 Naoya Kitajima , Tomo Takahashi

Preheating and other particle production phenomena in the early Universe can give rise to high- energy out-of-equilibrium fermions with an anisotropic stress. We develop a formalism to calculate the spectrum of gravitational waves due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kari Enqvist , Daniel G. Figueroa , Tuukka Meriniemi

One of the predictions from simple inflation models is stochastic background of Gravitational Waves (\textbf{GW}), or literally what is called Primordial Gravitational Waves (\textbf{PGW}) with a nearly scale--invariant spectrum. To discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami

We study the generation of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by a population of neutron stars (NSs) which go over a hadron-quark phase transition in its inner shells. We obtain, for example, that the NS phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 J. C. N. de Araujo , G. F. Marranghello

A stochastic background of gravitational waves can be created by the superposition of a large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest moments of the universe certainly created a stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-22 Nelson Christensen

Primordial gravitational waves from the very early stages of the universe, such as inflation or bounce processes, are an irreducible cosmological source of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). The recent detection of SGWB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Changhong Li

A continuous stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWs) for burst sources is produced if the mean time interval between the occurrence of bursts is smaller than the average time duration of a single burst at the emission, i.e., the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Miranda , O. D. Aguiar

The thermal plasma in the early universe produced a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background, which peaks today in the microwave regime and was dubbed the cosmic gravitational microwave background (CGMB). In previous works only single…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Jacopo Ghiglieri , Jan Schütte-Engel , Enrico Speranza

We study the generation of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced by a population of neutron stars (NSs) which go over a hadron-quark phase transition in its inner shells. We obtain, for example, that the NS phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-05 J. C. N. de Araujo , G. F. Marranghello

Recently, the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA, and CPTA collaborations independently reported their evidence of the Stochastic Gravitational Waves Background (SGWB). While the inferred gravitational-wave background amplitude and spectrum are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-21 Yi-Fu Cai , Xin-Chen He , Xiao-Han Ma , Sheng-Feng Yan , Guan-Wen Yuan

On the frequency-amplitude plane, Gravitational Waves (GWs) from cosmic strings show a flat plateau at higher frequencies due to the string loop dynamics in standard radiation dominated post-inflationary epoch. The spectrum may show an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Rome Samanta , Satyabrata Datta

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 cosmological stochastic gravitational-wave background produced by the mildly non-linear evolution of density fluctuations is analyzed, in the frame of an Einstein-de Sitter model, by means of a fully relativistic perturbation expansion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabino Matarrese , Silvia Mollerach

A future detection of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) with GW experiments is expected to open a new window on early universe cosmology and on the astrophysics of compact objects. In this paper we study SGWB anisotropies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 N. Bartolo , D. Bertacca , S. Matarrese , M. Peloso , A. Ricciardone , A. Riotto , G. Tasinato

We propose a novel probe of fundamental physics that involves the exploration of temporal correlations between the multi-frequency electromagnetic (EM) signal and the sub-threshold GW signal or stochastic gravitational wave background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Suvodip Mukherjee , Joseph Silk

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

We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) resulting from the mergers of primordial black holes (PBH) that formed from the collapse of sub-horizon regions in the early universe. We adopt a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Stefano Profumo , Fengwei Yang

Gravitational waves (GWs) are produced by colliding particles through the gravitational analogue of electromagnetic bremsstrahlung. We calculate the contribution of free-free emission in the radiation-dominated Universe to the stochastic GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Betty X. Hu , Abraham Loeb