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[Abridged] The primary gravitational waves (PGWs) are generated in the early universe from the quantum vacuum during inflation. In slow roll inflation, the power spectrum (PS) of PGWs over large scales, which leave the Hubble radius during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Alipriyo Hoory , Jerome Martin , Arnab Paul , L. Sriramkumar

One of the fundamental characteristics of slow roll inflation is its generation of tensor perturbations, which manifest as stochastic gravitational waves (GWs). Slow roll inflation results in a nearly scale-invariant GW spectrum that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Suvashis Maity , Md Riajul Haque

Many gravitational wave (GW) sources are expected to have non-negligible eccentricity in the millihertz band. These highly eccentric compact object binaries may commonly serve as a progenitor stage of GW mergers, particularly in dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

Characterizing the physical properties of the stochastic gravitational waves background (SGWB) is a key step towards identifying the nature of its possible origin. We focus our analysis on SGWB anisotropies. The existence of a non-trivial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Peter Adshead , Niayesh Afshordi , Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni , Matteo Fasiello , Eugene A. Lim , Gianmassimo Tasinato

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to be produced by the superposition of individually undetectable, unresolved gravitational-wave (GW) signals from cosmological and astrophysical sources. Such a signal can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-17 Federico De Lillo , Jishnu Suresh , Antoine Depasse , Magdalena Sieniawska , Andrew L. Miller , Giacomo Bruno

We investigate thoroughly the temporal evolution of the universe temperature as a function of the Hubble parameter associated with the Stochastic Gravitational Wave (SGW), that formed at the cosmological QCD phase transition epoch to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-20 Mohamed Moussa , Homa Shababi , Anisur Rahaman , Ujjal Kumar Dey

We investigate density fluctuations and scalar-induced gravitational waves (GWs) arising from the production of long-lived solitons and oscillons, which can dominate the early Universe and drive reheating prior to the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

The primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) carries first-hand messages of early-universe physics, possibly including effects from inflation, preheating, cosmic strings, electroweak symmetry breaking, and etc. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

A population of super-massive black hole binaries is expected to generate a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the pulsar timing array (PTA) frequency range of $10^{-9}$--$10^{-7}$ Hz. Detection of this signal is a current…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Bailey Sykes , Hannah Middleton , Andrew Melatos , Tiziana Di Matteo , Colin DeGraf , Aklant Bhowmick

We revisit the possibility that the stochastic common-spectrum process recently detected by the NANOGrav pulsar timing array experiment could be due to primordial gravitational waves (GWs). A na\"{i}ve extrapolation down to interferometer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Micol Benetti , Leila Lobato Graef , Sunny Vagnozzi

We study the effects of pre-recombination physics on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) anisotropies induced by the propagation of gravitons through the large-scale density perturbations and their cross-correlation with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-17 Matteo Braglia , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

A first-order phase transition in the early universe can give an observable stochastic gravitational background (SGWB), which will necessarily have primordial anisotropies across the sky. In multi-field inflationary scenarios, these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Arushi Bodas , Raman Sundrum

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

The discovery of gravitational waves opens new opportunities to test BSM physics. In particular, the production of a stochastic background of primordial gravitational waves could provide a signature of the generation of the right-right…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-13 Pasquale Di Bari

This study undertakes a reconsideration of the potential for a first-order electroweak phase transition, focusing on the next-to-minimal two Higgs doublet model (N2HDM). Our exploration spans diverse parameter spaces associated with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-17 Arnab Chaudhuri , Kazunori Kohri

In this work we investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background generated during the f\/irst-order cosmological QCD phase transition of the early universe in the framework of the Barrow entropy. We f\/irst derived the Barrow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-14 Qi-Min Feng , Zhong-Wen Feng , Xia Zhou , Qing-Quan Jiang

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) are ubiquitous in many early-Universe processes accompanied by non-Gaussianity; while Gaussian perturbation can generate significant SIGWs, computations of SIGWs can be significantly affected and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Xiang-Xi Zeng , Zhuan Ning , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang

The bubble wall velocity in an electroweak first order phase transition is a key quantity both for electroweak baryogenesis and for the production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves that may be probed in the future through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Jose M. No

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by matter isocurvature fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

We study the generation of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background produced from a population of core-collapse supernovae, which form black holes in scenarios of structure formation. We obtain, for example, that the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. N. de Araujo , O. D. Miranda , O. D. Aguiar