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We investigate the possibility for a direct detection by future space interferometers of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background generated during the inflationary stage in a class of viable $\Lambda$CDM BSI models. At frequencies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Polarski

Twenty years ago, construction began on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Advanced LIGO, with a factor of ten better design sensitivity than Initial LIGO, will begin taking data this year, and should soon make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 Sheila E. Dwyer , Daniel Sigg , Stefan Ballmer , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

Formation of primordial black holes from inflationary fluctuations is accompanied by a scalar induced gravitational wave background. We perform a Bayesian search of such background in the data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first, second…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Alba Romero-Rodriguez , Mario Martinez , Oriol Pujolàs , Mairi Sakellariadou , Ville Vaskonen

Anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background radiation due to gravity waves are investigated. An initial spectrum of gravity waves may have been induced during an epoch of inflation. We study the propagation of such a spectrum in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Ruth Durrer , Tina Kahniashvili

Observed angular positions and redshifts of large-scale structure tracers such as galaxies are affected by gravitational waves through volume distortion and magnification effects. Thus, a gravitational wave background can in principle be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Donghui Jeong , Fabian Schmidt

We show that neutron star binaries can be ideal laboratories to probe hidden sectors with a long range force. In particular, it is possible for gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and Virgo to resolve the correction of waveforms from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-07 Djuna Croon , Ann E. Nelson , Chen Sun , Devin G. E. Walker , Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Gravitational waves have predominantly been detected using interferometric techniques, with standard approaches limited to 10 kHz and with modern advancements extending this bound to 300 kHz. To explore the largely uncharted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Eduard Atonga , Ramy Aboushelbaya , Peter A. Norreys

In addition to density perturbations, inflationary models of the early universe generally predict a stochastic background of gravitational waves or tensor fluctuations. By making use of the inflationary flow approach for single field models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Brett C. Friedman , Asantha Cooray , Alessandro Melchiorri

We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 hrs of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These data come from the first LIGO science…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , B. Abbott

We show that if the propagating speed of gravitational waves (GWs) gradually diminishes during inflation, the power spectrum of primordial GWs will be strongly blue, while that of the primordial scalar perturbation may be unaffected. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yong Cai , Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

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

Using the cross-correlation data from the first three observing runs of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, we search for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) from primordial black holes, arising from the superposition of compact binary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Tore Boybeyi , Sebastien Clesse , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Mairi Sakellariadou

Recent theoretical results indicate that the detection of primordial gravity waves from inflation may be a hopeless task. First, foregrounds from lensing put a strict lower limit on the detectability of the B-mode polarization signal in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 William H. Kinney

Advanced LIGO's discovery of gravitational-wave events is stimulating extensive studies on the origin of binary black holes. Assuming that the gravitational-wave events can be explained by binary primordial black hole mergers, we utilize…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Sai Wang , Yi-Fan Wang , Qing-Guo Huang , Tjonnie G. F. Li

The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves would…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Doğa Veske , Zsuzsa Márka , Albert Zhang

We show that for detections of gravitational-wave transients, constraints can be given on physical parameters of the source without using any specific astrophysical models. Relying only on fundamental principles of general relativity, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-14 Bence Bécsy , Peter Raffai , Kiranjyot Gill , Tyson B Littenberg , Margaret Millhouse , Marek J Szczepańczyk

The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations offers a whole new range of possible tests and opens up a new window which may shed light on the nature of dark energy and dark matter. In the present work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-28 Minghui Du , Weiqiang Yang , Lixin Xu , Supriya Pan , David F. Mota

In this paper we provide a comprehensive derivation of the energy density in the stochastic gravitational-wave background $\Omega_\mathrm{gw}(f)$, and show how this quantity is measured in ground-based detectors such as Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Stephen R. Taylor , B. S. Sathyaprakash , Will M. Farr

We assess the relative contribution to the COBE - measured microwave anisotropy arising both from relic gravity waves as well as primordial density perturbations originating during inflation. We show that the gravity wave contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Varun Sahni , Tarun Souradeep