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Even though one could already constrain different models in cosmology and Beyond Standard Model physics using CMB data, these models remained unconstrained at shorter wavelength scales, and knowledge of new physics at higher energy scales…

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The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process affecting the pulsar timing residuals in its 12.5-year data set. We demonstrate that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Simone Blasi , Vedran Brdar , Kai Schmitz

Gravitational waves (GWs) can alter the neutrino propagation distance and thus affect neutrino oscillations. This can result in a complete disappearance of the oscillatory behavior that competes with other sources of neutrino decoherence.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Dominik Hellmann , Sara Krieg , Heinrich Päs , Mustafa Tabet

In type I seesaw models, the right-handed neutrinos are typically super-heavy, consistent with the generation of baryon asymmetry via standard leptogenesis. Primordial gravitational waves of cosmological origin provides a new window to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-21 Bowen Fu , Anish Ghoshal , Steve King

We examine which information on the early cosmological history can be extracted from the potential measurement by third-generation gravitational-wave observatories of a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by cosmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Yann Gouttenoire , Géraldine Servant , Peera Simakachorn

Cosmological gravitational wave backgrounds (CGWBs) are the conglomeration of unresolved gravitational wave signals from early Universe sources, which make them a promising tool for cosmologists. Because gravitons decouple from the cosmic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Tatsuya Daniel , Marcell Howard , Morgane König

Gravitational waves (GWs) are signals that propagate across large distances in the Universe, and thus, they bring information on the cosmic history. GW sources are at the same time distance indicators and tracers of the matter field. Events…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Isabela S. Matos

We study the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background induced by the primordial scalar perturbation with the spectrum having a lognormal peak of width $\Delta$ at $k=k_*$. We derive an analytical formula for the GW spectrum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki

Gravitational waves (GWs) from distant sources such as inspiralling and merging stellar-mass compact binaries, intermediate-mass and supermassive-binary-black-hole can be gravitationally lensed by intervening objects, ranging from stars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu

Recently, multiple pulsar timing array collaborations have presented compelling evidence for a stochastic signal at nanohertz frequencies, potentially originating from cosmic strings. Cosmic strings are linear topological defects that can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang , Chang Liu , Lang Liu , Xiao-Jin Liu , You Wu , Yu-Mei Wu , Zhu Yi , Zhi-Qiang You

In this paper we introduce a hands-on activity in which introductory astronomy students act as gravitational wave astronomers by extracting information from simulated gravitational wave signals. The process mimics the way true gravitational…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-11-26 Louis J. Rubbo , Shane L. Larson , Michelle B. Larson , Dale R. Ingram

Galaxy clusters are sources of gravitational radiation. The main aim of this paper is to give numerical estimates and theoretical description of the relevant features of the gravitational radiation coming from an appropriate spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Vicent Quilis , Jose M. Ibanez , Diego Saez

We derive analytical approximations to describe the ultra-high-frequency secondary peak of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by cosmic strings that is sourced by loops created in the friction-dominated era. We show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 Sergei Mukovnikov , Lara Sousa

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries, together with an associated electromagnetic counterpart, are ideal probes of cosmological models. As demonstrated with GW170817, such multimessenger observations allow one to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 E. Chassande-Mottin , K. Leyde , S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences have matured into a robust cosmological probe, providing self-calibrated luminosity distance measurements independent of any cosmic distance ladder, hence the term "standard…

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmological origin. It is expected to carry unique signatures from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration

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

Gravitational waves are tiny disturbances in space-time and are a fundamental, although not yet directly confirmed, prediction of General Relativity. Rapidly rotating neutron stars are one of the possible sources of gravitational radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-03 Aaron Worley , Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li

We consider the metric perturbations around a stationary rotating Nambu-Goto string in Minkowski spacetime. By solving the linearized Einstein equations, we study the effects of azimuthal frame-dragging around the rotation axis and linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Kouji Ogawa , Hideki Ishihara , Hiroshi Kozaki , Hiroyuki Nakano

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