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We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) produced by cosmic strings, and to subsequently estimate the string tension $G\mu$ in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Guillaume Boileau , Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou , Renate Meyer , Nelson Christensen

Cosmic string loops contain cusps which decay by emitting bursts of particles. A significant fraction of the released energy is in the form of photons. These photons are injected non-thermally and can hence cause spectral distortions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Madeleine Anthonisen , Robert Brandenberger , Alex Laguë , Ian A. Morrison , Daixi Xia

We study the stochastic gravitational waves from string gas cosmology. With the help of the Lambert W function, we derive the exact energy density spectrum of the stochastic gravitational waves in term of tensor-to-scalar. New feathers with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Hongguang Zhang , Xilong Fan , Yufeng Li , Minglei Tong , Hongsheng Zhang

We perform a direct search for an isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic strings in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array second data release. We find no evidence for such an SGWB, and therefore place $95\%$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

Cosmic strings are topological defects possibly formed in the early Universe, which may be observable due to their gravitational effects on the cosmic microwave background radiation or gravitational wave experiments. To this effect it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 R. P. L. Azevedo , C. J. A. P. Martins

The general properties of the gravity wave backgrounds of cosmological origin are reviewed and briefly discussed, with emphasis on the relic background expected from an early pre-big bang phase typical of string cosmology models.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gasperini

A characteristic observational signature of cosmic strings are short duration gravitational wave (GW) bursts. These have been searched for by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration, and will be searched for with LISA. We point out that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-25 Pierre Auclair , Danièle A. Steer , Tanmay Vachaspati

We perform a phenomenological comparison of the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum expected from cosmic gauge string networks and superstring networks comprised of multiple string types. We show how violations of scaling behavior and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-25 Danny Marfatia , Ye-Ling Zhou

Detecting stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from cosmic strings is crucial for unveiling the evolutionary laws of the early universe and validating non-standard cosmological models. This study presents the first systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Geng-Chen Wang , Hong-Bo Jin , Xin Zhang

Non radial oscillations of neutron stars are associated with the emission of gravitational waves. The characteristic frequencies of these oscillations can be computed using the theory of stellar perturbations, and they are shown to carry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Valeria Ferrari

Early dark energy that relieves Hubble tension leaves a fingerprint in the primordial stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background that originates from cosmic string network. The signal is not only detectable with future planned GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Chia-Feng Chang

We analyse the stochastic background of gravitational radiation emitted by a cosmological population of core-collapse supernovae. The supernova rate as a function of redshift is deduced from an observation-based determination of the star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Valeria Ferrari , Sabino Matarrese , Raffaella Schneider

We show that it is possible to construct a consistent model describing a current-carrying cosmic string endowed with torsion. The torsion contribution to the gravitational force and geodesics of a test-particle moving around the SCCS are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. N. Ferreira , H. J. Mosquera-Cuesta , L. C. Garcia de Andrade

As one of the detection targets of all gravitational wave detectors at present, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) provides us an important way to understand the evolution of our universe. In this paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-22 Bo-Rui Wang , Jin Li , He Wang

The gravitational lensing by long, wiggly cosmic strings is shown to produce a large number of lensed images of a background source. In addition to pairs of images on either side of the string, a number of small images outline the string…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrew A. de Laix , Lawrence M. Krauss , Tanmay Vachaspati

Using recent simulation results, we provide the mass and speed spectrum of cosmic string loops. This is the quantity of primary interest for many phenomenological signatures of cosmic strings, and it can be accurately predicted using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-22 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Ken D. Olum , Benjamin Shlaer

We study stochastic gravitational waves from cosmic strings generated in an ultraviolet-complete model for pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone dark matter with a hidden $\mathrm{U(1)}$ gauge symmetry. The dark matter candidate in this model can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-11 Ze-Yu Qiu , Zhao-Huan Yu

Analyzing the records of Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational observatories, we found a permanent time-domain asymmetry inherent only to the signals of their gravitational detectors. Experiments with different periodic signals, Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander V. Kramarenko , Andrey V. Kramarenko

In recent years, several pulsar timing array collaborations have reported first hints for a stochastic gravitational wave background at nano-Hertz frequencies. Here we elaborate on the possibility that this signal comes from new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-02 Eric Madge , Enrico Morgante , Cristina Puchades-Ibáñez , Nicklas Ramberg , Wolfram Ratzinger , Sebastian Schenk , Pedro Schwaller

Appearance of cosmic strings in the early Universe is a common manifestation of new physics typically linked to some high energy scale. In this paper, we discuss a different situation, where a model underlying cosmic string formation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-02 William T. Emond , Sabir Ramazanov , Rome Samanta