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We investigate the influence of an early matter-dominated era in cosmic history on the dynamics of cosmic strings and the resulting stochastic gravitational waves. Specifically, we examine the case where this era originates from the dark…

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The post-inflationary Peccei-Quinn (PQ) symmetry breaking scenario provides a unique opportunity to pinpoint the QCD axion dark matter mass, which is a crucial input for laboratory experiments that are designed for probing specific mass…

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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

The time-dependent metric of a cosmic string leads to an effective interaction between the string and photons - the "gravitational Aharonov-Bohm" effect -- and causes cosmic strings to emit light. We evaluate the radiation of pairs of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Daniele A. Steer , Tanmay Vachaspati

We simultaneously study gravitational waves (GWs) and free axions emitted from axionic string-wall networks in the early universe using advanced 3D lattice simulations. Our simulations start before the Peccei-Quinn phase transition and end…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-11 Yang Li , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Jing Shu

In this paper, following the previous study, we evaluate the spectrum of gravitational wave background generated by domain walls which are produced if some discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken in the early universe. We apply two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

We investigate the constraint ability of the gravitational wave (GW) as the standard siren on the cosmological parameters by using the third-generation gravitational wave detector: the Einstein Telescope. We simulate the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Rong-Gen Cai , Tao Yang

We investigate the detectability of Gravitational Wave (GW) modes (emitted by black-holes and neutron stars) by third generation, ground-based gravitational wave detectors planned to be operational in the next decade. Our analysis focuses…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Massimo Tinto , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Harshit Raj

Gravitational wave (GW) constraints have recently been used to significantly restrict models of dark energy and modified gravity. New bounds arising from GW decay and GW-induced dark energy instabilities are particularly powerful in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Johannes Noller

We investigate the emission of vector radiation by superconducting cosmic string loops, deriving general relations to characterize the vector radiation emission efficiency, and study its impact on the evolution of loops. Building on these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-27 I. Yu. Rybak , L. Sousa

We discuss key aspects of the nature of radiation from global strings and its impact on the relic axion density. Using a simple model we demonstrate the dependence on the spectrum of radiation emitted by strings. We then study the radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Richard A. Battye , Lukasz P. Bunio , Steven J. Cotterill , Pranav B. Gangrekalve Manoj

We compute the expected strain power spectrum and energy density parameter of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) created by a network of long cosmic strings evolving during the whole cosmic history. As opposed to other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Disrael Camargo Neves da Cunha , Christophe Ringeval , François R. Bouchet

Dark matter (DM) can form dense condensates around black holes (BHs), such as superradiant clouds and ultracompact mini halos, which can significantly affect the orbital evolution of their companion objects through dynamical friction (DF).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-22 Qianhang Ding , Minxi He , Hui-Yu Zhu

We include the effect of the frictional force caused by interactions between cosmic strings and the particles of the background plasma in the computation of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic string loops.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 S. Mukovnikov , L. Sousa

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

Gravitational wave astronomy has recently emerged as a new way to study our Universe. In this work, we survey the potential of gravitational wave interferometers to detect macroscopic astrophysical objects comprising the dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Joerg Jaeckel , Sebastian Schenk , Michael Spannowsky

Supermassive black hole binaries source gravitational waves measured by Pulsar Timing Arrays. The frequency spectrum of this stochastic background is predicted more precisely than its amplitude. We argue that Dark Matter friction can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Anish Ghoshal , Alessandro Strumia

The Gravitational Wave (GW) universe contains a wealth of sources which, with the proper treatment, will open up the universe as never before. By observing massive black hole binaries to high redshifts, we should begin to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Edward K. Porter

Cosmic strings produce charged particles which, by emitting electromagnetic radiation, partially ionize neutral hydrogen during the dark ages. Corrections to the ionization fraction of neutral hydrogen induced by cosmic strings could lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Samuel Laliberte , Robert Brandenberger

We study the holographic dark energy (HDE) model by using the future gravitational wave (GW) standard siren data observed from the Einstein Telescope (ET) in this work. We simulate 1000 GW standard siren data based on a 10-year observation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-10 Jing-Fei Zhang , Hong-Yan Dong , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang