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We study the properties of the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) produced by domain walls (DWs) during inflation without forming a network. We numerically simulate the DW production caused by a second-order phase transition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-06 Haipeng An , Chen Yang

Motivated by the new heavy dark matter production mechanism from cosmic phase transition, we propose a novel mechanism for the generation of microscopic gravitational waves (GWs) during cosmological first-order phase transitions arising…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Dayun Qiu , Siyu Jiang , Fa Peng Huang

Beyond individually resolvable gravitational wave events such as binary black hole and binary neutron star mergers, the superposition of many more weak signals coming from a multitude of sources is expected to contribute to an overall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Nick van Remortel , Kamiel Janssens , Kevin Turbang

Cosmological phase transitions in the early Universe may produce relics in the form of a network of cosmic defects. Independently of the order of a phase transition, topology of the defects, and their global or gauge nature, the defects are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniel G. Figueroa , Mark Hindmarsh , Joanes Lizarraga , Jon Urrestilla

Gravitational waves (GWs) originating from cosmological sources offer direct insights into the physics of the primordial Universe, the fundamental nature of gravity, and the cosmic expansion of the Universe. In this review paper, we present…

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

Primordial gravitational waves are expected to create a stochastic background encoding information about the early Universe that may not be accessible by other means. However, the primordial background is obscured by an astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-11 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Rory Smith

Unresolved sources of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the merger of a binary of black holes at cosmological distances combine into a stochastic background. Such a background is in the continuous or popcorn regime, depending on whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Matteo Braglia , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Sachiko Kuroyanagi

We derive a general procedure for calculating the gravitational wave background (GWB) from cosmic string loops whose typical shape evolves over time, as in gravitational backreaction. Using the results of a large-scale study of numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Jeremy M. Wachter , Ken D. Olum , Jose J. Blanco-Pillado

Unresolved and resolved sources of gravitational waves are at the origin of a stochastic gravitational wave background. While the computation of its mean density as a function of frequency in a homogeneous and isotropic universe is standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-19 Giulia Cusin , Cyril Pitrou , Jean-Philippe Uzan

It is well known that energy fluxes will produce gravitational wave memory. The gravitational wave memory produced by background including cosmic microwave background (CMB), cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), and gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He , Zhi-Chao Zhao

In this work, we consider the stochastic background of gravitational waves (SBGWs) produced by pre-galactic stars, which form black holes in scenarios of structure formation. The calculation is performed in the framework of hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Eduardo S. Pereira , Oswaldo D. Miranda

We propose a novel mechanism to test time variation of the propagation speed of gravitational waves (GWs) in light of GWs astronomy. As the stochastic GWs experience the whole history of cosmic expansion, they encode potential observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-23 Yi-Fu Cai , Chunshan Lin , Bo Wang , Sheng-Feng Yan

The stochastic gravitational wave background (GWB) from halo mergers is investigated by a quasi-analytic method. The method we employ consists of two steps. The first step is to construct a merger tree by using the Extended Press-Schechter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Takahiro Inagaki , Keitaro Takahashi , Naoshi Sugiyama

Basic aspects of the background of gravitational waves and its mathematical characterization are reviewed. The spectral energy density parameter $\Omega(f)$, commonly used as a quantifier of the background, is derived for an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Pablo A. Rosado

Analyzing the records of Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational observatories, we found a permanent time-domain asymmetry inherent only to the signals of their gravitational detectors. Experiments with different periodic signals, Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Alexander V. Kramarenko , Andrey V. Kramarenko

We study a new source of stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from the final collapse of a network of topological defects. Typically, the final collapse is considered negligible for generating gravitational waves (GWs) due to its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-28 Shuailiang Ge

We analyse the stochastic background of gravitational radiation emitted by a cosmological population of core-collapse supernovae. The supernova rate as a function of redshift is deduced from an observation-based determination of the star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Valeria Ferrari , Sabino Matarrese , Raffaella Schneider

Networks of cosmic domain walls can form in the early Universe as a consequence of the spontaneous breaking of discrete symmetries. We study the production of a cosmological background of gravitational waves (GWs) from such networks, when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Alessio Notari , Fabrizio Rompineve , Francisco Torrenti

We consider an alternative approach for the computation of the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by small loops produced throughout the cosmological evolution of cosmic string networks and use it to derive an analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 L. Sousa , P. P. Avelino