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Early matter-dominated eras (EMDEs) are a natural feature arising in many models of the early universe and can generate a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) during the transition from an EMDE to the radiation-dominated universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-01 Nicolas Fernandez , Joshua W. Foster , Benjamin Lillard , Jessie Shelton

Domain wall (DW) networks may have formed in the early universe following the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry. Notably, several particle physics models predict the existence of current-carrying DWs, which can capture and store…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Anish Ghoshal , Yu Hamada

We show that the energy density spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves has characteristic features due to the successive changes in the relativistic degrees of freedom during the radiation era. These changes make the evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuki Watanabe , Eiichiro Komatsu

The energy spectrum of gravitational waves (GWs), which depicts the energy of GWs per unit volume of space per logarithmic frequency interval normalized to the critical density of the Universe, is a widely used way for quantifying the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Rong-Gen Cai , Xing-Yu Yang , Long Zhao

Modeling the stochastic gravitational wave background from various astrophysical sources is a key objective in view of upcoming observations with ground- and space-based gravitational wave observatories such as Advanced LIGO, VIRGO, eLISA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Irina Dvorkin , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni , Joseph Silk

We present details of numerical simulations of the gravitational radiation produced by a first order thermal phase transition in the early universe. We confirm that the dominant source of gravitational waves is sound waves generated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-08 Mark Hindmarsh , Stephan J. Huber , Kari Rummukainen , David J. Weir

We integrate the publicly available O1 LIGO time-domain data to obtain maximum-likelihood constraints on the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) arising from stochastic, persistent signals. Our method produces sky-maps of the strain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Arianna I. Renzini , Carlo R. Contaldi

We consider gravitational waves emitted by various populations of compact binaries at cosmological distances. We use population synthesis models to characterize the properties of double neutron stars, double black holes and double white…

In this paper we discuss some general aspects of the gravitational wave background arising from post-inflationary short-lasting cosmological events such as phase transitions. We concentrate on the physics which determines the shape and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Thomas Konstandin , Geraldine Servant

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

We study the generation and evolution of gravitational waves (tensor perturbations) in the context of Randall-Sundrum braneworld cosmology. We assume that the initial and final stages of the background cosmological model are given by de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Takahiro Tanaka

Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-30 Elisa Fenu , Daniel G. Figueroa , Ruth Durrer , Juan Garcia-Bellido

We study the evolution of domain wall networks appearing after phase transitions in the early Universe. They exhibit interesting dynamical scaling behaviour which is not yet well understood, and are also simple models for the more…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Theodore Garagounis , Mark Hindmarsh

We measure the scalar induced gravitational waves from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations and the gravitational wave observations. In the $\Lambda$CDM+$r$ model, we constrain the cosmological parameters within the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

A model for the acoustic production of gravitational waves at a first order phase transition is presented. The source of gravitational radiation is the sound waves generated by the explosive growth of bubbles of the stable phase. The model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Mark Hindmarsh

We discuss the gravitational wave background (GWB) from a cosmological population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Among various emission mechanisms for the gravitational waves (GWs), we pay a particular attention to the vast anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Hiramatsu , Kei Kotake , Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

Because of physical processes ranging from microscopic particle collisions to macroscopic hydrodynamic fluctuations, any plasma in thermal equilibrium emits gravitational waves. For the largest wavelengths the emission rate is proportional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-06 J. Ghiglieri , M. Laine

A self-gravitating cylindrical domain wall is considered as an example of non-spherical wall to clarify the interaction between a domain wall and gravitational waves. We consider the time evolution from a momentarily static initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Nakamura , H. Ishihara

Rotating neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency band of ground-based detectors. They are expected to emit quasi-monochromatic, long-duration GW signals, called continuous waves (CWs), due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Federico De Lillo , Jishnu Suresh , Andrew L. Miller