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Stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) poses significant challenges for data analysis and parameter inference in future space-based gravitational-wave missions, such as LISA and Taiji, as it appears as an additional stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Jing-yi Wu , Yong Tang

LISA data analysis represents one of the most challenging tasks ahead for the future of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. Characterizing the instrument's noise properties while fitting for all the other detectable sources is a key…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Alessandro Santini , Martina Muratore , Jonathan Gair , Olaf Hartwig

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected to arise from the superposition of many independent and unresolved gravitational-wave signals, of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. Some cosmological models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. G. Crowder , R. Namba , V. Mandic , S. Mukohyama , M. Peloso

Globally, Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have revealed evidence supporting an existing gravitational wave background (GWB) signal in the PTA data set. Apart from acquiring more observations, the sensitivity of PTA experiments can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 El Mehdi Zahraoui , Patricio Maturana-Russel , Willem van Straten , Renate Meyer , Sergei Gulyaev

We constrain the primordial gravitational waves from cosmic microwave background (CMB) and stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) observations. SGWB provides the latest way to explore the early universe and the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Jun Li , Guang-Hai Guo

It is thought that a stochastic background of gravitational waves was produced during the formation of the universe. A great deal could be learned by measuring this Cosmic Gravitational-wave Background (CGB), but detecting the CGB presents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Neil J. Cornish , Shane L. Larson

Extended sources of the stochastic gravitational backgrounds have been conventionally searched on the spherical harmonics bases. The analysis during the previous observing runs by the ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such LIGO and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Leo Tsukada , Santiago Jaraba , Deepali Agarwal , Erik Floden

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

We investigate the sensitivity of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to the anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB). We first discuss the main astrophysical and cosmological sources of SGWB which are…

The existence of a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) is a common prediction in various models of the early Universe. Despite constraints at different frequency ranges and claims of detection in the nHz range by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 Matteo Braglia , Mauro Pieroni , Sylvain Marsat

A new model independent method is presented for the analysis of pulsar timing data and the estimation of the spectral properties of an isotropic gravitational wave background (GWB). We show that by rephrasing the likelihood we are able to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson , Stephen Taylor , Jonathon Gair , Sreekumar T. Balan , Rutger van Haasteren

The standard multidetector F-statistic for continuous gravitational waves is susceptible to false alarms from instrumental artifacts, for example monochromatic sinusoidal disturbances ('lines'). This vulnerability to line artifacts arises…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-19 David Keitel , Reinhard Prix , Maria Alessandra Papa , Paola Leaci , Maham Siddiqi

We introduce a new analysis method to deal with stationary non-Gaussian noises in gravitational wave detectors in terms of the independent component analysis. First, we consider the simplest case where the detector outputs are linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-03 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ichi Yokoyama , Kazunari Eda , Yousuke Itoh

We introduce a new method designed for Bayesian inference of the angular power spectrum of the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) anisotropy. This scheme works with time-series data and can optionally incorporate the cross-correlations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chi Tian , Ran Ding , Xiao-Xiao Kou

Using a semi-parametric approach based on the fourth-order Edgeworth expansion for the unknown signal distribution, we derive an explicit expression for the likelihood detection statistic in the presence of non-normally distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lionel Martellini , Tania Regimbau

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) consists of an incoherent collection of waves from both astrophysical and cosmological sources. To distinguish the SGWB from noise, it is essential to verify its quadrupolar nature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-22 Yifan Chen , Yuxiang Liu , Jing Shu , Bin Xu , Xiao Xue , Yanjie Zeng

In this work, we develop a Bayesian data analysis framework to study the SGWB from bosonic clouds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, building on previous work by Brito et.al (2017). We further improve this model by adding a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Leo Tsukada , Thomas Callister , Andrew Matas , Patrick Meyers

Gravitational Wave (GW) data bring an exceptional avenue to test the underlying models of coalescing compact objects. In the regime of strong gravity and high curvature, they allow the exploration of minute deviations from the best-fit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Guillaume Dideron , Suvodip Mukherjee , Luis Lehner

The cosmic string contributes to our understanding and revelation of the fundamental structure and evolutionary patterns of the universe, unifying our knowledge of the cosmos and unveiling new physical laws and phenomena. Therefore, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li

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