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It has recently been claimed, with a $4.2 \sigma$ significance level, that gravitational wave echoes at a frequency of about $72$ Hz have been produced in the GW170817 event. The merging of compact stars can lead to the emission of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Massimo Mannarelli , Francesco Tonelli

The post-bounce oscillations of newly-born relativistic stars are expected to lead to gravitational-wave emission through the excitation of nonradial oscillation modes. At the same time, the star is oscillating in its radial modes, with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrea Passamonti , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Alessandro Nagar

This article aims at clarifying the situation about astrophysical sources that might be observed with haloscope experiments sensitive to gravitational waves in the 1-10 GHz band. The GrAHal setup is taken as a benchmark. We follow a very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-13 Aurélien Barrau , Juan García-Bellido , Thierry Grenet , Killian Martineau

Cusps of cosmic strings emit strong beams of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW). As a consequence of these beams, the stochastic ensemble of gravitational waves generated by a cosmological network of oscillating loops is strongly non…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alexander Vilenkin

In its observation band, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will simultaneously observe stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) signals of different origins; orbitally modulated waveforms from galactic white dwarf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

The current knowledge of cosmological structure formation suggests that Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halos possess a nonspherical density profile, implying that cosmic structures can be potential sources of gravitational waves via power transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmelita Carbone , Carlo Baccigalupi , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational-wave experiments with interferometers and with resonant masses can search for stochastic backgrounds of gravitational waves of cosmological origin. We review both experimental and theoretical aspects of the search for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michele Maggiore

We review the properties of Galactic binaries containing two compact objects, as derived by means of population synthesis. Using this information we calculate the gravitational wave signal of these binaries. At frequencies below f ~< 2 mHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 G. Nelemans , L. R. Yungelson , S. F. Portegies Zwart

Now that detection of gravitational wave signals from the coalescence of extra-galactic compact binary star mergers has become nearly routine, it is intriguing to consider other potential gravitational wave signatures. Here we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Keith Riles

Galactic ultra compact binaries are expected to be the dominant source of gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band. Of the tens of millions of galactic binaries with periods shorter than an hour, it is estimated that a few tens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Tyson Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Kristen Lackeos , Travis Robson

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We highlight this potential via a new physics scenario: hybrid…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Yunjia Bao , Tore Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic , Lian-Tao Wang

Oscillating neutron stars are sources of continuous gravitational waves. We study analytically the excitation of stellar oscillations by the mechanical impact on the stellar surface of ''clumps'' of stochastically accreted matter. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-19 Wenhao Dong , Andrew Melatos

Gravitational waves are a unique probe of the early Universe, as the Universe is transparent to gravitational radiation right back to the end of inflation. In this article, we summarise detection prospects and the wide scope of primordial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-09 Rishav Roshan , Graham White

Spinning neutron stars can emit long-lived gravitational waves. There are several mechanisms that can produce such continuous wave emission. These mechanisms relate to the strains in the elastic crust, the star's magnetic field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 D I Jones

We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH) from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) they generate in the frequency band of…

The evolution of globular cluster systems in some galaxies can be cause of merging of globulars in the very central regions. This high stellar density favours the growth of a central nucleus via swallowing of surrounding stars. The infall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Paolo Miocchi

Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). We find that the oscillation of CDOs inside neutron stars can be a detectable source of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW strain amplitude depends on the mass of the CDO, and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-25 C. J. Horowitz , Sanjay Reddy

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

Massive black-hole binaries, formed when galaxies merge, are among the primary sources of gravitational waves targeted by ongoing Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments and the upcoming space-based LISA interferometer. However, their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Irina Dvorkin , Enrico Barausse

Primordial density perturbations in the radiation-dominated era of the early Universe are expected to generate stochastic gravitational waves (GWs) due to nonlinear mode coupling. In this \emph{Letter}, we report on a search for such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Kanhaiya Lal Pandey , Teruaki Suyama , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Parameswaran Ajith