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The statistical significance of a candidate gravitational-wave (GW) event is crucial to the prospects for a confirmed detection, or for its selection as a candidate for follow-up electromagnetic observation. To determine the significance of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 Collin Capano , Thomas Dent , Chad Hanna , Martin Hendry , Yi-Ming Hu , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

Crosscorrelation of the outputs of two Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors has recently been proposed [1] as a method for detecting statistical association between GWs and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). Unfortunately, the method can be effectively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Modestino , A. Moleti

A detection of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) from unresolved compact binary coalescences could be made by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo at their design sensitivities. However, it is possible for magnetic noise that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Patrick M. Meyers , Katarina Martinovic , Nelson Christensen , Mairi Sakellariadou

The stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) produced by merging neutron stars exhibits a peak in the kHz band. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework to exploit this distinctive feature through a Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-04 Giulia Capurri , Andrea Lapi , Mario Spera , Carlo Baccigalupi

We describe a general approach to detection of transient gravitational-wave signals in the presence of non-Gaussian background noise. We prove that under quite general conditions, the ratio of the likelihood of observed data to contain a…

We assess the detectability of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) background with respect to additive red and white noise in the timing of millisecond pulsars. We develop detection criteria based on the cross-correlation function summed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

Gravitational-wave (GW) parameter estimation typically assumes that instrumental noise is Gaussian and stationary. Obvious departures from this idealization are typically handled on a case-by-case basis, e.g., through bespoke procedures to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ronan Legin , Maximiliano Isi , Kaze W. K. Wong , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We address the issue of finding an optimal detection method for a discontinuous or intermittent gravitational wave stochastic background. Such a signal might sound something like popcorn popping. We derive an appropriate version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Steve Drasco , Eanna E. Flanagan

In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

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

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) of primordial origin offer a powerful probe of early-Universe physics and possible dark-sector dynamics. While most searches focus on the GW power spectrum, additional information is encoded…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Martina Ciprini , Maria Lucia Marcelli , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The recently reported signal of common red noise between pulsars by several pulsar timing array collaborations has been thought as evidence of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) due to the Helling-Downs correlation. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-29 Jun-Qian Jiang , Yun-Song Piao

Stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background (SGWB) contains information about the early Universe and astrophysical processes. The recent evidence of SGWB by pulsar timing arrays in the nanohertz band is a breakthrough in the GW astronomy.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Hanlin Song , Dicong Liang , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

A valuable target for advanced gravitational-wave detectors is the stochastic gravitational-wave background. The stochastic background imparts a weak correlated signal into networks of gravitational-wave detectors, and so standard searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Thomas Callister , Michael Coughlin , Jonah Kanner

We have set a new upper limit on the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) using two prototype Torsion-bar Antennas (TOBAs). TOBA is a low-frequency gravitational-wave detector with bar-shaped test masses rotated by the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-28 Ayaka Shoda , Masaki Ando , Koji Ishidoshiro , Kenshi Okada , Wataru Kokuyama , Yoichi Aso , Kimio Tsubono

Gravitational waves offer a new window to probe the nature of gravity, including answering if the mediating particle, graviton, has a non-zero mass or not. Pulsar timing arrays measure stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Yu-Mei Wu , Zu-Cheng Chen , Qing-Guo Huang

Motivated by the old idea of using the moon as a resonant gravitational-wave (GW) detector, as well as the recent updates in modeling the lunar response to GWs, we re-evaluate the feasibility of using a network of lunar seismometers to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-23 Han Yan , Xian Chen , Jinhai Zhang , Fan Zhang , Lijing Shao , Mengyao Wang

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

We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli

Detecting a stochastic gravitational wave background requires that we first understand and model any astrophysical foregrounds. In the millihertz frequency band, the predominate foreground signal will be from unresolved white dwarf binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-23 Matthew R. Adams , Neil J. Cornish