English
Related papers

Related papers: Constraining the stochastic gravitational wave bac…

200 papers

One of the guaranteed features of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is the presence of Doppler anisotropies induced by the motion of the detector with respect to the rest frame of the SGWB source. We point out that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Giulia Cusin , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Gravitational Waves (GWs) are tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are well poised to detect low frequency ($10^{-9}$ -- $10^{-7}$ Hz) GWs in the near future. There…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. A. Ellis , F. A. Jenet , M. A. McLaughlin

This paper studies the use of optical lattice clock (OLC) detector networks for detecting the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). Starting from the cross-correlation formalism for two OLC detectors, we analyze how the detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-30 Mingzhi Lou , Hong Su , Tao Yang , Yun-Long Zhang

Convincing evidence of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background has been found by the NANOGrav Collaboration in the 15-year data set. From this signal, we can evaluate the possibility of its source being from the early Universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-30 Chris Choi , Jacob Magallanes , Murman Gurgenidze , Tina Kahniashvili

The subtle influence of gravitational waves on the apparent positioning of celestial bodies offers novel observational windows. We calculate the expected astrometric signal induced by an isotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 Giorgio Mentasti , Carlo R. Contaldi

With the goal of attempting to observe a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with LISA, the spectral separability of the cosmological and astrophysical backgrounds is important to estimate. We attempt to determine the level with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer , Neil J. Cornish

We study the scalar stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from astrophysical sources, including compact binary mergers and stellar collapses, in the Bras-Dicke theory of gravity. By contrast to tensor waves, we found the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-04 Song Ming Du

Finding a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) of astrophysical or primordial origin is one of the quests of current and future gravitational-wave observatories. While detector networks such as LIGO-Virgo-Kagra or pulsar timing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Quentin Baghi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Jean-Baptiste Bayle , Marc Besançon , Henri Inchauspé

It is demonstrated that estimators of the angular power spectrum commonly used for the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) lack a closed-form analytical expression for the likelihood function and, typically, cannot be accurately…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Xiangyu Zhang , Erik Floden , Hongru Zhao , Sara Algeri , Galin Jones , Vuk Mandic , Jesse Miller

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy truly began with the detection of merging compact binaries. The next breakthrough lies in detecting GWs from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), particularly the GW linear memory -- a phenomenon arising from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Kiranjyot Gill

The power-law parametrization for the energy density spectrum of gravitational wave (GW) background is a useful tool to study its physics and origin. While scalar induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs) from some particular models fit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Zhu Yi , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Yue Wang , Fengge Zhang

Unresolved sources of gravitational waves can create a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) which may have intrinsic or extrinsic anisotropies. The angular power spectrum is a well-suited estimator for characterizing diffuse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra , Anirban Ain

We investigate the capabilities of space-based gravitational-wave detector networks, specifically Taiji and LISA, to measure the anisotropies in stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB), which are characterized by the angular power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-30 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Sai Wang

The ensemble of unresolved compact binary coalescences is a promising source of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. For stellar-mass black hole binaries, the astrophysical stochastic GW background is expected to exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Guo-Chin Liu

We present robust constraints on the stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) at Mpc scales from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) data. CMB constraints on GWs are usually characterized as the tensor-to-scalar ratio, assuming specifically a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Toshiya Namikawa , Shohei Saga , Daisuke Yamauchi , Atsushi Taruya

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation Gravitational Wave (GW) interferometer designed to detect a large number of astrophysical and cosmological sources with unprecedented sensitivity. A key target for ET is the detection of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Ilaria Caporali , Giulia Capurri , Walter Del Pozzo , Angelo Ricciardone , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi

Obtaining a faithful source intensity distribution map of the sky from noisy data demands incorporating known information of the expected signal, especially when the signal is weak compared to the noise. We introduce a widely used procedure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Sambit Panda , Swetha Bhagwat , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra

Multiple pulsar timing array (PTA) collaborations have recently reported the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. The signal is expected to be primarily sourced by inspiralling supermassive black hole…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Matias Zaldarriaga , Eliot Quataert

Stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background (SGWB) contains information about the early Universe and astrophysical processes. The recent evidence of SGWB by pulsar timing arrays in the nanohertz band is a breakthrough in the GW astronomy.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Hanlin Song , Dicong Liang , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

Gravitational waves offer a new window to probe the nature of gravity, including answering if the mediating particle, graviton, has a non-zero mass or not. Pulsar timing arrays measure stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang