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We calculate the gravitational wave power spectrum from sound waves in a cosmological first order phase transition in the unexplored regime of large bubbles, by which we mean that the mean bubble spacing $R_*$ is a non-negligible fraction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Lorenzo Giombi , Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh

Future space-based interferometers offer an unprecedented opportunity to detect signals from the stochastic gravitational wave background originating from a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale. The phase transition is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 Lorenzo Giombi , Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh

We estimate the degree of circular polarization for the gravitational waves generated during the electroweak and QCD phase transitions from the kinetic and magnetic helicity generated by bubble collisions during those cosmological phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Leonard Kisslinger , Tina Kahniashvili

Domain walls represent two-dimensional topological defects that emerge from the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries in various new physics models. In this study, we undertake the first calculation of gravitational waves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Bo-Qiang Lu

In this paper, we systematically study gravitational waves (GWs) produced by remote compact astrophysical sources. To describe such GWs properly, we introduce three scales, $\lambda, \; L_c$ and $L$, denoting, respectively, the typical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Jared Fier , Xiongjun Fang , Bowen Li , Shinji Mukohyama , Anzhong Wang , Tao Zhu

We show that quantum fluctuations of an expanding phase transition bubble give rise to gravitational wave (GW) emission, even when considering a single bubble, without bubble collisions or plasma effects. The ratio of GW energy to the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Kfir Blum , Mehrdad Mirbabayi

The cosmological remnants of a first-order phase transition generally depend on the perturbations that the walls of expanding bubbles originate in the plasma. Several of the formation mechanisms occur when bubbles collide and lose their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-17 Leonardo Leitao , Ariel Megevand

In recent years, the prospect of detecting gravitational waves sourced from a strongly first-order cosmological phase transition has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers of gravitational wave astronomy. Cosmological phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter Athron , Csaba Balazs , Andrew Fowlie , Lachlan Morris , William Searle , Yang Xiao , Yang Zhang

Several mechanisms exist for generating a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the period following inflation. These mechanisms are generally classical in nature, with the gravitational waves being produced from inhomogeneities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Larry R. Price , Xavier Siemens

Gravitational waves from cosmic strings are generated in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, potentially providing a unprecedented probe of the early universe. We discuss the key dynamical processes underlying calculations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Battye , R. R. Caldwell , E. P. S. Shellard

We do a complete calculation of the stochastic gravitational wave background to be expected from cosmic strings. We start from a population of string loops taken from simulations, smooth these by Lorentzian convolution as a model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

We derive the complete spectrum of gravitational waves induced by primordial scalar perturbations ranging over all observable wavelengths. This scalar-induced contribution can be computed directly from the observed scalar perturbations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Baumann , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Paul J. Steinhardt , Keitaro Takahashi

We study primordial gravitational waves (GWs) generated from first-order phase transitions (PTs) during cosmic reheating. Using a minimal particle physics model, and a general parametrization of the inflaton energy density and the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Amitayus Banik , Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

Primordial gravitational waves provide a very important stochastic background that could be detected soon with interferometric gravitational wave antennas or indirectly via the induced patterns in the polarization anisotropies of the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Jean-Francois Dufaux , Daniel G. Figueroa , Juan Garcia-Bellido

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

The low frequency part of the gravitational wave spectrum generated by local physics, such as a phase transition or parametric resonance, is largely fixed by causality, offering a clean window into the early Universe. In this work, this low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Anson Hook , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Davide Racco

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

We study the gravitational waves in modified Gauss-Bonnet gravity. Applying the metric perturbation around a cosmological background, we obtain explicit expressions for the wave equations. It is shown that the speed of the traceless mode is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-25 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masahiko Taniguchi

If the cosmological QCD phase transition is strongly first order and lasts sufficiently long, it generates a background of gravitational waves which may be detected via pulsar timing experiments. We estimate the amplitude and the spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer , Xavier Siemens