English
Related papers

Related papers: Stochastic gravitational wave background generated…

200 papers

In the study of gravitational waves (GWs), the stochastic background generated by compact binary systems are among the most important kinds of signals. The reason for such an importance has to do with their probable detection by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-17 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

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

Cosmic strings are predicted by many Standard Model extensions involving the cosmological breaking of a symmetry with nontrivial first homotopy group and represent a potential source of primordial gravitational waves (GWs). Present efforts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-07 Pierre Auclair , Simone Blasi , Vedran Brdar , Kai Schmitz

Basic aspects of the background of gravitational waves and its mathematical characterization are reviewed. The spectral energy density parameter $\Omega(f)$, commonly used as a quantifier of the background, is derived for an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Pablo A. Rosado

We revisit the possibility and detectability of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by a cosmological population of newborn neutron stars (NSs) with r-mode instabilities. We show that the resultant SGWB is insensitive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-18 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

We compute the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum sourced by sound waves produced during a first-order phase transition in the radiation-dominated epoch. The correlator of the velocity field is evaluated in accordance with the sound shell…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-26 Alberto Roper Pol , Simona Procacci , Chiara Caprini

We explore the gravitational wave spectrum generated by string-wall structures in an $SO(10)$ ($Spin(10)$) based scenario of pseudo-Goldstone boson dark matter (pGDM) particle. This dark matter candidate is a linear combination of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Rinku Maji , Wan-Il Park , Qaisar Shafi

We investigate the gravitational wave background induced by the first order scalar perturbations in the curvaton models. We consider the quadratic and axion-like curvaton potential which can generate the blue-tilted power spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Masahiro Kawasaki , Naoya Kitajima , Shuichiro Yokoyama

The upper limit on the energy density of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background obtained from the two-year science run (S5) of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) is used to constrain the average GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Howell , David Blair

Magnetars have already been a potential candidate as gravitational wave sources that could be detected by current and future terrestrial as well as ground based gravitational wave detectors. In this article, we focus on the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-22 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

Gravitational wave detectors produce time series of the gravitational wave strain co-added with instrument noise. For evenly sampled data, such as from laser interferometers, it has been traditional to Fourier transform the data and perform…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-14 Neil J. Cornish

Evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background in the nHz frequency band is recently reported by four pulsar timing array collaborations NANOGrav, EPTA, CPTA, and PPTA. It can be interpreted by gravitational waves from collapsing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-23 Zhao Zhang , Chengfeng Cai , Yu-Hang Su , Shiyu Wang , Zhao-Huan Yu , Hong-Hao Zhang

The coalescence of compact binary stars is expected to produce a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GW) observable with future GW detectors. Such backgrounds are usually characterized by their power spectrum as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Yonadav Barry Ginat , Vincent Desjacques , Robert Reischke , Hagai B. Perets

Gravitons radiated from light, evaporating black holes contribute to the stochastic background of gravitational waves. The spectrum of such emission depends on both the mass and the spin of the black holes, as well as on the redshifting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Aurora Ireland , Stefano Profumo , Jordan Scharnhorst

Astrometric surveys can be used to constrain the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at very low frequencies. We use proper motion data provided by Gaia DR3 to fit a generic dipole+quadrupole field. We analyse several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Santiago Jaraba , Juan García-Bellido , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Sarah Ferraiuolo , Matteo Braglia

We consider a simple extension of Standard Model by adding two complex singlet scalars with a $\rm{U}\left(1\right)$ symmetry. A discrete $\mathcal{Z}_2 \times \mathcal{Z}^{\prime}_2$ symmetry is imposed in the model and the added scalars…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Avik Paul , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Debasish Majumdar

We calculate the power spectrum of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background expected from kink-kink collisions on infinite cosmic strings. Intersections in the cosmic string network continuously generate kinks, which emit GW bursts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-30 Yuka Matsui , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

One of the predictions from simple inflation models is a stochastic background of gravitational waves (or literally what is called the Primordial Gravitational Waves (\textbf{PGW})) with a nearly scale--invariant spectrum. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 Taimur Mohammadi , Behrooz Malekolkalami

The problem of cosmological production of gravitational waves is discussed in the framework of an expanding, spatially homogeneous and isotropic FRW type Universe with time-evolving vacuum energy density. The gravitational wave equation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-10 D. A. Tamayo , J. A. S. Lima , D. F. A. Bessada

We derive analytical approximations to describe the ultra-high-frequency secondary peak of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic strings that is sourced by loops created in the friction-dominated era. We show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Sergei Mukovnikov , Lara Sousa