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We propose a multi-scale edge-detection algorithm to search for the Gott-Kaiser-Stebbins imprints of a cosmic string (CS) network on the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. Curvelet decomposition and extended Canny algorithm are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-12 A. Vafaei Sadr , S. M. S. Movahed , M. Farhang , C. Ringeval , F. R. Bouchet

The detection and characterization of post-merger gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star mergers remains challenging with current ground-based detectors. We present a convolutional neural network framework designed for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Roo Weerasinghe

Searches for primordial gravitational waves have resulted in constraints in a large frequency range from a variety of sources. The standard Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) technique is to parameterise the tensor power spectrum in terms of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Thomas J. Clarke , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

The ensemble of unresolved compact binary coalescences is a promising source of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. For stellar-mass black hole binaries, the astrophysical stochastic GW background is expected to exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Guo-Chin Liu

Long-term precise timing of Galactic millisecond pulsars holds great promise for measuring the long-period (months-to-years) astrophysical gravitational waves. Several gravitational-wave observational programs, called Pulsar Timing Arrays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rutger van Haasteren , Yuri Levin , Patrick McDonald , Tingting Lu

The sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors is characterized by their noise curves, which determine the detector's reach and ability to measure the parameters of astrophysical sources accurately. The detector noise is typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sumit Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

Strong evidence of the existence of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background (SGWB) has been reported by the NANOGrav, PPTA, EPTA and CPTA collaborations. The Bayesian posteriors of the Gravitational-Wave Background (GWB) amplitude and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-04 Chao Zhang , Ning Dai , Qing Gao , Yungui Gong , Tong Jiang , Xuchen Lu

We propose a diagnostic tool for future analyses of stochastic gravitational wave background signals of extra-galactic origin in LISA data. Next-generation gravitational wave detectors hold the capability to track unresolved gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-29 Lavinia Heisenberg , Henri Inchauspé , David Maibach

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated by black hole-black hole (BH-BH) hyperbolic encounters with eccentricities close to one and compare them with the respective sensitivity curves of planned GW detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Morteza Kerachian , Sajal Mukherjee , Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Sanjit Mitra

Spectra of the stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds from cosmic strings are calculated and compared with present and future experimental limits. Background spectra are calculated numerically for dimensionless string tensions G mu/c^2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew R. DePies , Craig J. Hogan

The propagation of gravitational waves (GWs) at cosmological distances offers a new way to test the gravitational interaction at the largest scales. Many modified theories of gravity, usually introduced to explain the observed acceleration…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Maxence Corman , Abhirup Ghosh , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Martin A. Hendry , Sylvain Marsat , Nicola Tamanini

In this overview we discuss the prospects for a first detection of an isotropic gravitational wave background with earth-based interferometric detectors. Furthermore, we focus on how correlated noise sources could endanger such a detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Kamiel Janssens

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

A large population of binary systems in the Universe emitting gravitational waves (GW) would produce a stochastic noise, known as the gravitational wave background (GWB). The properties of the GWB directly depend on the attributes of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Mikel Falxa , Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere , Alberto Sesana

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have recently published the upper limit measurement of persistent directional stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) based on data from their first and second observing runs (O1 and O2). In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Kate Ziyan Yang , Vuk Mandic , Claudia Scarlata , Sharan Banagiri

Cosmic strings are important remnants of early-Universe phase transitions. We show that they can be probed by Gravitational Waves (GWs) from compact binary mergers. If such chirping GW passes by a cosmic string, it is gravitationally lensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Sunghoon Jung , TaeHun Kim

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary stars at cosmological distances are promising and powerful cosmological probes, referred to as the GW standard sirens. With future GW detectors, we will be able to precisely measure source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Toshiya Namikawa , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational-wave (GW) events are generally believed to originate in galaxies and can thus serve, like galaxies, as tracers of the universe's large-scale structure. In GW observations, waveform analysis provides direct measurements of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ya-Nan Du , Ji-Yu Song , Yichao Li , Shang-Jie Jin , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Stochastic gravitational waves (SGW) can be detected by measuring a cross-correlation of two or more gravitational wave (GW) detectors. In this paper we describe an optimal SGW search technique in the wavelet domain. It uses a sign…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Klimenko , G. Mitselmakher , A. Sazonov

One of the open issues of the standard cosmological model is the value of the cosmic dipole measured from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), as well as from the number count of quasars and radio sources. These measurements are currently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 S. Mastrogiovanni , C. Bonvin , G. Cusin , S. Foffa