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Stochastic gravitational wave background produced by a stationary coalescing population of binary neutron stars in the Galaxy is calculated. This background is found to constitute a confusion limit within the LISA frequency band up to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 V. B. Ignatiev , A. G. Kuranov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

Domain walls represent two-dimensional topological defects that emerge from the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries in various new physics models. In this study, we undertake the first calculation of gravitational waves produced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-16 Bo-Qiang Lu

We study the generation and evolution of gravitational waves (tensor perturbations) in the context of Randall-Sundrum braneworld cosmology. We assume that the initial and final stages of the background cosmological model are given by de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsutomu Kobayashi , Takahiro Tanaka

In this paper, following the previous study, we evaluate the spectrum of gravitational wave background generated by domain walls which are produced if some discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken in the early universe. We apply two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Masahiro Kawasaki , Ken'ichi Saikawa

Gravitational radiation offers a unique possibility to study the large-scale structure of the Universe, gravitational wave sources and propagation in a completely novel way. Given that gravitational wave maps contain a wealth of…

A stochastic background of gravitational waves can be created by the superposition of a large number of independent sources. The physical processes occurring at the earliest moments of the universe certainly created a stochastic background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-22 Nelson Christensen

A technique is given to derive the well known Bell-Szekeres solution of the Einstein-Maxwell vacuum field equations describing the space-time and the Maxwell field following the head-on collision of two homogeneous, plane, electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-07 C. Barrabès , P. A. Hogan

Perturbation of gravitational fields may be decomposed into scalar,vector and tensor components.In this paper we concern with the evolution of tensor mode perturbations in a spatially closed deSitter background of RW form. It may be thought…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Amir H. Abbassi , J. Khodagholizadeh , Amir M. Abbassi

There is an extremely simple relationship between the spectrum of the gravitational wave background produced by a cosmological distribution of discrete gravitational wave sources, the total time-integrated energy spectrum of an individual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. S. Phinney

We present a novel mechanism for gravitational wave generation in the early Universe. Light spectator scalar fields during inflation can acquire a blue-tilted power spectrum due to stochastic effects. We show that this effect can lead to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Reza Ebadi , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune , Hanwen Tai , Lian-Tao Wang

In this work we study the early time behavior and the background evolution of ultralight vector dark matter. We present a model for vector dark matter in an anisotropic Bianchi type I universe. Vector fields source anisotropies in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tomás Ferreira Chase , Diana López Nacir

Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by presenting definitions of GWs in flat space-time and in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-23 Chiara Caprini , Daniel G. Figueroa

Motivated by some of the recent swampland conjectures, we study a model of dark energy, in which a quintessence axion slowly rolls in a steep potential due to its interactions with a U(1) or an SU(2) gauge field. The gauge fields produced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Alexandros Papageorgiou

We show that the nonperturbative decay of ultralight scalars into Abelian gauge bosons, recently proposed as a possible solution to the Hubble tension, produces a stochastic background of gravitational waves which is constrained by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Zachary J. Weiner , Peter Adshead , John T. Giblin

Inflation generates gravitational waves, which may be observable in the low multipoles of the cosmic microwave background (cmb) anisotropy but only if the inflaton field variation is at least of order the Planck scale. Such a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 David H. Lyth

Gravitational waves are propagating undulations in the spacetime fabric, which interact very weakly with their environment. In cosmology, gravitational-wave distortions are produced by most of the inflationary scenarios and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Despoina Pazouli , Christos G. Tsagas

String cosmology models predict a cosmic background of gravitational waves produced during a period of dilaton-driven inflation. I describe the background, present astrophysical and cosmological bounds on it, and discuss in some detail how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ram Brustein

The cosmological background of gravitational waves can be tuned by Extended Theories of Gravity. In particular, it can be shown that assuming a generic function f(R) of the Ricci scalar R gives a parametric approach to control the evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-02 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , M. Francaviglia

We study the effect of a stochastic background of gravitational waves on the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. It has been shown that matter density inhomogeneities produce a smoothing of the acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Silvia Mollerach

An axion rotating in field space can produce dark photons in the early universe via tachyonic instability. This explosive particle production creates a background of stochastic gravitational waves that may be visible at pulsar timing arrays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Raymond T. Co , Keisuke Harigaya , Aaron Pierce