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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a potential tool to probe high-redshift universe. However, the circularity problem enforces people to find model-independent methods to study the luminosity correlations of GRBs. Here, we present a new method…

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Observations from the first flight of the Medium Scale Anisotropy Measurement (MSAM) are analyzed to place limits on Gaussian fluctuations in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). This instrument chops a 30\arcmin\ beam in a 3…

We discuss the sensitivity to anisotropies of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In addition to the unresolved galactic binaries as the most promising GWB source of the planned Laser…

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We present a follow-up study to the method recently proposed by Namikawa and Sherwin (2023) to probe gravitational waves using cross-correlations between two cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-modes and a large-scale structure tracer. We…

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In this paper, we explore the possibility of using galaxy cluster catalogues to provide redshift support for a gravitational-wave dark standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant $H_0$. We adapt the cosmology inference pipeline…

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Hubble tension and the search for preferred direction are two crucial unresolved issues in modern cosmology. Different measurements of the Hubble constant provide significantly different values, and this is known as the Hubble tension. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-01 Rahul Kumar Thakur , Meghendra Singh , Shashikant Gupta , Rahul Nigam

The standard cosmological model involves the assumption of isotropy and homogeneity, a principle that is generally well-motivated but is now in conflict with various anisotropies found using independent astrophysical probes. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Bryce Cousins , Arnab Dhani , Bangalore S. Sathyaprakash , Nicolás Yunes

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can provide a measure of the Hubble constant $H_0$ that is independent of the constraints set by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the type Ia supernovae (SNIa), thereby arbitrating the Hubble tension. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Jing-Yi Jia , Da-Chun Qiang , Lin-Yu Li , Hao Wei

Recently, some theoretical models predicted that a small fraction of fast radio bursts (FRBs) could be associated with gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we discuss the possibility of using GW/FRB association systems, if commonly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao

Future missions of gravitational-wave astronomy will be operated by space-based interferometers, covering very wide range of frequency. Search for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) is one of the main targets for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya , Takashi Hiramatsu , Yoshiaki Himemoto

Apparently, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are all but standard candles. Their emission is collimated into a cone and the received flux depends on the cone aperture angle. Fortunately we can derive the aperture angle through an achromatic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , C. Firmani , D. Lazzati , V. Avila-Reese , .

We have studied the cosmic microwave background (CMB) map looking for features beyond cosmological isotropy. We began by tiling the CMB variance map (which are produced by different smoothing scales) with stripes of different sizes along…

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We use analytic computations to predict the power spectrum as well as the bispectrum of Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) anisotropies. Our approach is based on the halo model and takes into account the mean luminosity-mass relation. The…

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The Hellings-Downs (HD) correlation serves as the fundamental benchmark for detecting the gravitational-wave background (GWB) in pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) within General Relativity (GR). However, this canonical signature relies on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Yan-Chen Bi , Yu-Mei Wu , Qing-Guo Huang

We combine recent long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) sample including 52 objects out to z$=$6.3 compiled from Swift Gamma Ray Bursts by Schaefer (2006) with Type Ia Supernova (SNIa), Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Oscillation (BAO)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Meng Su , Hong Li , Zuhui Fan , Bo Liu

There currently exist many observations which are not consistent with the cosmological principle. We review these observations with a particular emphasis on those relevant for Square Kilometre Array (SKA). In particular, several different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Shamik Ghosh , Pankaj Jain , Gopal Kashyap , Rahul Kothari , Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh , Prabhakar Tiwari

Gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries are known to be an excellent absolute distance indicator, yet it is unclear whether electromagnetic counterparts of these events are securely identified for measuring their redshifts,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Masamune Oguri

By correlating the signals from a pair of gravitational-wave detectors, one can undertake sensitive searches for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. If the stochastic background is anisotropic, then this correlated signal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Bruce Allen , Adrian C. Ottewill

Recent Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) collaborations show strong evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with the characteristic Hellings-Downs inter-pulsar correlations. The signal may stem from supermassive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 N. M. Jiménez Cruz , Ameek Malhotra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Ivonne Zavala

Forthcoming cosmic microwave background experiments (CMB) will provide precise new tests of structure-formation theories. The geometry of the Universe may be determined robustly, and the classical cosmological parameters, such as the…

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